books to understand science

• a short history of nearly everything - bill bryson
• the canon: a whirligig tour of beautiful basics of science - natalie angier
• my beloved brontasaur - brian switek
• trespassing on einstein's lawn - amanda gefter

books to better understand anxiety + mental illness

• the power of different: the link between disorder and genius
• life inside my mind - 31 authors share...

classic feminist texts

• the second sex
• feminism is for everybody
• antigone
• a room of one's own
• jane eyre
• pride and prejudice