Sociology

• Glass Castle, The by Jeanette Walls
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Other Wes Moore, The: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

Journalism

• Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Philosophy

• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Coer
• Last Lecture, The by Randy Pausch

Classic Literature

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Amber Spyglass, The by Phillip Pullman
• Bend in the River, A by V.S. Naipaul
• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• Canterbury Tales, The by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• Count of Monte Cristo, The by Alexandre Dumas
• Divine Comedy, The by Dante Alighieri
• Fellowship of the Ring, The by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Life Before Us, The by Romain Gary
• Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
• Money bu Martin Amis
• Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
• One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Quiet American, The by Graham Greene
• Return of the King, The by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Subtle Knife, The by Phillip Pullman
• Two Towers, The by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• War of the Worlds, The by H.G. Wells
• Way We Live Now, The by Anthony Trollope