• The Bible
• Psychopathia Sexualis - Richard von Krafft-Ebing
• Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann
• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
• Reveille for Radicals - Saul Alinsky
• Cigarettes and Coffee - George Orwell
• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
• Notes of A Native Son - James Baldwin
• The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote

1960s:

• Sex and the Single Girl - Helen Gurley Brown
• The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas Szasz
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley and Malcolm X
• The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
• Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation - Dr. Ian Stevenson
• The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion

1970s:

• Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky
• Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber
• All the President’s Men - Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro
• Of Woman Born - Adrienne Rich
• Illness as Metaphor - Susan Sontag
• Life at the Dakota - Stephen Birmingham
• Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - Barbara Ehrenreich & Deidre English

1980s:

• A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
• Ain't I A Woman - bell hooks
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
• A Field Guide to American Houses - Virginia Savage McAlester
• Reproductive Rights and Wrongs - Betsy Hartmann
• There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack - Paul Gilroy
• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza - Gloria Andzaldúa
• And the Band Played On: People, Politics, and the AIDS Epidemic - Randy Shilts
• AIDS and its Metaphors - Susan Sontag
• Private Acts, Social Consequences - Ronald Bayer
• Talking Back - bell hooks

1990s:

• Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
• Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia
• Freud On Women - Elisabeth Young-Breuhl
• The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
• Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays - Camille Paglia
• 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York - Clifton Hood
• The Liars Club - Mary Karr
• Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays - Leonore Tiefer
• Lou Reed: The Last Interview
• The Ethical Slut - Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton
• Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women Into Wives - Dalma Heyn
• Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic - Lawrence Gostin & Zita Lazzarini
• Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women - Elizabeth Wurtzel
• The Bunny Years - Kathryn Leigh Scott
• Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life - Roxana Robinson
• Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness - Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

2000s:

• AIDS Doctors; Voices From the Epidemic: An Oral History - Ronald Bayer & Gerald M. Oppenheimer
• Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
• The Velvet Underground and Nico - Joe Harvard
• Singled Out - Bella DePaulo
• Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics - Rosalind Rosenberg
• Are Men Necessary? - Maureen Dowd
• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
• A Brief History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey
• Sexploration: The Ultimate Guide to Feeling Truly Great in Bed - Jane Bogart
• Vaccinated - Paul Offit
• S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College - Heather Corinna
• Fibromyalgia for Dummies - Staud & Adamec
• Outliers - Malcom Gladwell
• Where Men Win Glory - Jon Krakauer
• Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior - Geoffrey Miller
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
• Occult America - Mitch Horowitz

2010s:

• Gender and Sexual Agency - Heather Albanesi
• Not Under My Roof - Amy Schalet 
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America - Jeffrey Stout
• Evolutionary Psychology A Graphic Guide
• Just Kids - Patti Smith
• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Three Cups of Deceit - Jon Krakauer
• Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion - Janet Reitman
• A Short Autobiography - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Subliminal - Leonard Mlodinow
• Brain On Fire - Susannah Calahan
• Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks
• Israel/Palestine and the Queer International - Sarah Schulman
• Sex and World Peace - Valerie M. Hudson
• God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine - Victoria Sweet
• The New Religious Intolerance - Martha Nussbaum
• What We Talk About When We Talk About God - Rob Bell
• The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
• Manson - Jeff Guinn
• White Girls - Hilton Als
• How to Survive a Plague - David France
• The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure - Tristan Taormino
• The Village - John Strausbaugh
• Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father - Alysia Abbott
• Possibilities of Perception - Jennifer Church
• Talking to my Daughter About the Economy - Yanis Varoufakis
• Political Emotions - Martha Nussbaum
• The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System - Joseph B. Raskin
• Not Tonight - Joanna Kempner
• Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy - Yitzchak M. Binik & Kathryn S. K. Hall
• Yes Please - Amy Poehler
• Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy - Gabriella Coleman
• Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
• Sexual Healing - Carol Martin-Sperry
• Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates
• Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime - Ron Stallworth
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
• Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism - John Hoberman
• Sex and Disability

2015:

• Missoula - Jon Krakauer
• Too Hot To Handle: A Global History of Sex Education - Jonathan Zimmerman
• Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski
• Out on the Wire - Jessica Abel
• Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights - Heather R. White
• Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live with Themselves - Albert Bandura
• Radio: An Illustrated Guide - Jessica Abel
• Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture - Chris Donaghue

2016:

• Enter Helen - Brook Hauser
• Originals - Adam Grant
• Patient HM - Luke Dittrich
• Hillbilly Elegy - J. D. Vance
• Sex Object - Jessica Valenti
• Future Sex - Emily Witt
• All the Single Ladies - Rebecca Traister
• The Fire This Time - Jesmyn Ward
• The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism - Kristin Dombek
• The Populist Explosion - John Judis
• Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism - Sasha Issenberg
• Trainwreck - Sady Doyle
• From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community - Andrew Jolivette
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
• Seinfeldia - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
• How to Find Old Los Angeles: A Travel Guide - Kim Cooper
• The Bowery Boys
• The Good Immigrant - Various
• My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Urban Trails: San Francisco
• The Lonely City - Olivia Laing

2017:

• Insomniac City - Bill Hayes
• Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women - Otegha Uwagba
• Human Errors - Nathan H. Lents
• Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood
• Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret - Craig Brown
• How to Kill A City - Peter Moskowitz
• Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? - Alyssa Mastromonaco
• South and West - Joan Didion
• On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder
• What We Do Now - Various
• What Happened - Hillary Clinton
• We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Free Women Free Men - Camille Paglia
• Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus - Vanessa Grigoriadis
• After Andy - Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
• Happy Abortions: Our Bodies in the Era of Choice - Erica Miller
• Becoming Cliterate - Laurie Mintz
• The Mother of All Questions - Rebecca Solnit
• Lou Reed - Anthony DeCurtis
• Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equality - Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
• Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? - Katrine Marçal
• The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age - Andrew O'Hagan
• Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique
• Living a Feminist Life - Sara Ahmed
• Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
• Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis - Annie Jacobsen
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Samantha Irby
• The Wonder Down Under - Ellen Stokken Dahl and Nina Brochmann
• The Price of Illusion: A Memoir - Joan Juliet Buck
• Your Silence Will Not Protect You - Audre Lorde
• How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics - Laura Briggs
• The End of Policing - Alex S. Vitale
• American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus - Lisa Wade
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History - Kurt Andersen
• F*cked: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That's Screwed - Corinne Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson
• Buzz - Hallie Lieberman
• The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time - Brooke Gladstone
• How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics - Laura Briggs
• Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All - Jaclyn Friedman
• Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure - Lynn Comella
• Period Repair Manual - Lara Briden

2018:

• Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
• Things That Make White People Uncomfortable - Michael Bennett
• Facism: A Warning - Madeleine Albright
• The Road to Unfreedom - Timothy Snyder
• The Cost of Living - Deborah Levy
• A Higher Loyalty - James Comey
• Radical Sacrifice - Terry Eagleton
• Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night - Henry Nicholls
• Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession - Alice Bolin
• Paul Simon: The Life - Robert Hilburn
• Sex Matters - Mona Charen
• Roar Like A Woman: How Feminists Think Women Suck and Men Rock - Natalie Ritchie
• From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir - Becky Dorey-Stein
• Fear - Bob Woodward
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger - Rebecca Traister
• Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures - Eric R. Kandel
• White Kids - Margaret A. Hagerman
• I Might Regret This - Abbi Jacobson
• The Taming of New York's Washington Square: A Wild Civility - Erich Goode
• Educated - Tara Westover
• Becoming - Michelle Obama
• Everybody Loves Kamau - W. Kamau Bell
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
• Make Trouble - Cecile Richards
• Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex And the Truths They Reveal - Lux Alptraum
• Doing Harm - Maya Dusenbery

2019:

• The Vagina Bible - Jen Gunter
• How To Be A Patient - Sana Goldberg
• What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia - Amand & Marek
• I Like to Watch - Emily Nussbaum
• Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
• Everything Below the Waist - Jennifer Block
• The Man They Wanted Me to Be - Jared Yates Sexton
• The Impeachment Report: The House Intelligence Committee's Report on Its Investigation Into Donald Trump and Ukraine
• She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement - Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
• Period - Emma Barnett
• Hormonal: A Conversation About Women's Bodies, Mental Health and Why We Need to Be Heard - Eleanor Morgan
• Pain and Prejudice - Gabrielle Jackson
• Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You - Maisie Hill
• How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship - Eva Hagberg Fisher
• Handbook for a Post-Roe America - Robin Marty
• Wordslut - Amanda Montell
• The Great Pretender - Susannah Cahalan

2020

• Sexual Citizens - Jennifer Hirsch & Shamus Khan
• Boys and Sex - Peggy Orenstein
• Disability Visibility - Alice Wong (ed.)
• Breath - James Nestor
• Good Sexual Citizenship: How to Create a (Sexually) Safer World - Ellen Friedrichs