Factfulness by Hans Rosling
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan Lori-Parks
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Primate’s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky
How Music Works b y David Byrne
Enlightenment Now! by Steven Pinker
The Circle by Dave Eggers
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
An Astronaut’s Guide to Earth by Chris Hadfield
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood by Christopher Emdin
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
No More Shaves by David Greenberger
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones
To Know a Fly by Vincent Dethier
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Eunoia by Christian Bok
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Case of the Dog at Night-Time
John Okada’s No No Boy
The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten
Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food
Jewell Parker Rhodes’s Ghost Boys
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking
Walter Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz