A starter list:
- Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
- This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
- The Essential Ellen Willis by Ellen Willis
- Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers
- Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy by Robert Jourdain
- Critical Constructivism by Joe L. Kincheloe
- The Emperor of Maladies by Siddhartha Mukerjee
- The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy