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Abike-Iyimide, Faridah

• Ace of Spades

Aciman, Andre

• Call Me by Your Name

Adams, Douglas

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• Life, the Universe and Everything
• Last Chance to See

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

• We Should All Be Feminists

Albertalli, Becky

• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Alcott, Louisa May

• Little Women

Alderton, Dolly

• Everything I Know About Love

Alexander, Michelle

• The New Jim Crow

Anderson, Laurie Halse

• Speak: The Graphic Novel

Andersen, Sarah

• Fangs

Armfield, Julia

• Our Wives Under the Sea

Asher, Jay

• 13 Reasons Why

Attenborough, David

• A Life on Our Planet

Atwood, Margaret

• The Handmaid’s Tale
• The Testaments

Audrain, Audrey

• The Push

Austen, Jane

• Pride and Prejudice

Awad, Mona

• Bunny

Backman, Fredrik

• Beartown
• Anxious People

Balcombe, Jonathan

• What a Fish Knows

Barker, Pat

• The Silence of the Girls

Bates, Laura

• Everyday Sexism
• Men Who Hate Women

Bauer, Shane

• American Prison

Baum, L. Frank

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Baztericca, Agustina

• Tender is the Flesh

Beck, Koa

• White Feminism

Bennett, Brit

• The Mothers
• The Vanishing Half

Berners-Lee, Mike

• The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Berwald, Juli

• Life on the Rocks

Blau, Jessica Anya

• Mary Jane

Bob-Wacksburg, Rafael

• Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Brierley, Saroo 

• A Long Way Home

Brown, Dan

• The Da Vinci Code

Brown, Daniel James

• The Indifferent Stars Above

Brusatte, Steve

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
• The Rise and Reign of Mammals

Bryson, Bill

• Notes from a Small Island
• A Walk in the Woods
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Butler, Octavia E.

• Kindred

Cabot, Meg

• The Princess Diaries

Cahalan, Susannah

• The Great Pretender

Caine, Danny

• How to Resist Amazon and Why

Capote, Truman

• In Cold Blood

Carreyrou, John

• Bad Blood

Carroll, Lewis

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Chambers, Becky

• A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Chbosky, Stephen

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Imaginary Friend

Chen, Jessamine

• The School for Good Mothers

Chollet, Mona

• In Defense of Witches

Christie, Agatha

• Murder on the Orient Express
• And Then There Were None
• Death on the Nile

Cisneros, Sandra

• The House On Mango Street

Cline, Ernest

• Ready Player One
• Ready Player Two

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

• Between the World and Me

Coelho, Paulo

• The Alchemist
• The Archer

Collins, Suzanne

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Crichton, Michael

• Jurassic Park

Crosley, Slone

• I Was Told There’d Be Cake
• Look Alive Out There

Crouch, Blake

• Recursion
• Dark Matter
• Upgrade

Cullen, David

• Columbine

Dahl, Roald

• James and the Giant Peach
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The BFG
• Matilda

Davis, Angela

• Are Prisons Obsolete?

Dawkins, Richard

• The God Delusion

de Saint-Exupery, Antoine

• The Little Price 

de Waal, Frans

• Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Desmond, Matthew

• Evicited

DiAngelo, Robin

• White Fragility

Dickens, Charles

• A Christmas Carol

Doughty, Caitlin

• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

Du Marier, Daphne

• Rebecca

Dumas, Alexandre

• The Count of Monte Cristo

Dunthorne, Joe

• Submarine

Eddo-Lodge, Reni

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Evaristo, Bernadine

• Girl, Woman, Other

Fargo, Layne

• They Never Learn

Fessler, Ann

• The Girls Who Went Away

Fielding, Helen

• Bridget Jones’s Diary

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

• The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, Tom

• Legendary Children

Flynn, A.J.

• The Woman in the Window

Flynn, Gillian

• Sharp Objects
• Dark Places

Foley, Lucy

• The Guest List
• The Paris Apartment

Fohoohar, Rana

• Don’t Be Evil

Franklin, Jonathan

• 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival At Sea

Gaiman, Neil

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane
• Coraline

Gay, Roxane

• Hunger

Ghodsee, Kristen

• Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Godfrey-Smith, Peter

• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Deep Sea and the Origins of Consciousness 

Golding, William

• Lord of the Flies

Goldman, William

• The Princess Bride

Grace, Laura Jane

• Tranny

Grann, David

• Killers of the Flower Moon

Grant, Mira

• Into the Drowning Deep

Green, John

• Looking For Alaska
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Turtles All the Way Down
• The Anthropocene Reviewed

Greene, Graham

• Brighton Rock

Greenburg, Paul

• Four Fish

Grisham, John

• The Firm

Gruen, Sara

• Water for Elephants

Gyasi, Yaa

• Homegoing

Haig, Matt

• Reasons to Stay Alive
• The Midnight Library

Hamad, Ruby

• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Han, Jenny

• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
• P.S. I Still Love You
• Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Hannah, Kristen

• The Great Alone

Hargrove, John

• Beneath the Surface

Harris, Sam

• The End of Faith
• Letter to a Christian Nation
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Harris, Zakiya Delila

• The Other Black Girl

Hawkins, Rachel

• The Wife Upstairs

Healy, Jane

• The Animals at Lockwood Manor

Henry, Emily

• Beach Read
• Book Lovers

Hibbert, Talia

• Take a Hint, Dani Brown
• Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Highsmith, Patricia

• The Price of Salt

Hinton, Anthony Ray

• The Sun Does Shine

Hinton, S.E.

• The Ousiders

Hitchens, Christopher

• The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and in Practice
• God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Hoang, Helen

• The Kiss Quotient
• The Heart Principle

Hoffman, Alice

• Aquamarine

Hollis, Rachel

• Girl, Wash Your Face
• Girl, Stop Apologizing 
• Didn’t See That Coming

Hoover, Colleen

• Ugly Love

Hossain, Anushay

• The Pain Gap

Hosseini, Khaled

• A Thousand Splendid Suns

Huxley, Aldous

• Brave New World

Ignotofsky, Rachel

• Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
• Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Immerwahr, Daniel

• How to Hide an Empire

Ishiguro, Kazou

• Klara and the Sun

Isen, Tajja

• Some of my Best Friends

J.

Jackson, Holly

• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Jahren, Hope

• The Story of More

James, E.L.

• Fifty Shades of Gray

Jenkins Reid, Taylor

• After I Do
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• Daisy Jones and The Six
• Malibu Rising

Jennings, Ken

• Maphead

Jensen, Kelly

• (Don’t) Call Me Crazy

Jewell, Tiffany

• This Book is Anti-Racist

John, Elton

• Me

Kang, Han

• The Vegetarian

Kaufman, Amy

• Bachelor Nation

Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Kaysen, Susanna

• Girl, Interrupted

Keane, Mary Beth

• Ask Again, Yes

Kendall, Mikki

• Hood Feminism

Kendi, Ibram X.

• How to be an Anti-Racist

Kennedy, Elle

• The Deal

Kepnes, Caroline

• You

King, Stephen

• It
• The Shawshank Redeption
• Finders Keepers
• End of Watch

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Klebold, Sue

• A Mother’s Reckoning

Klosterman, Chuck

• The Nineties

Klune, TJ

• The House in the Cerulean Sea

Kobes du Mez, Kristen

• Jesus and John Wayne

Kolbert, Elizabeth

• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change
• Under a White Sky

Krakauer, Jon

• Into the Wild

Kukafka, Danya

• Notes on an Execution

Kurlansky, Mark

• Cod

Kurson, Robert

• Shadow Divers

Kuusisto, Stephen

• Have Dog, Will Travel

Lansing, Alfred

• Endurance

Larson, Erik

• The Devil in the White City

Lauren, Christina

• The Unhoneymooners

Lawson, Jenny

• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

Leduc, Amanda

• Disfigured: On Fairytales, Disability and Making Space

Lee, Harper

• To Kill a Mockingbird

Leonard, Annie

• The Story of Stuff

Li, Grace D.

• Portrait of a Thief

Lloyd, Ellery

• People Like Her

Lowry, Lois

• Number the Stars
• The Giver

Macado, Carmen Maria

• Her Body and Other Parties
• In the Dream House

Macdonald, Helen

• H is for Hawk

Macintosh, Claire

• Hostage

Maher, Geo

• A World Without Police

Manson, Mark

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Marrs, John

• The One

Marshall, Tim

• Prisoners of Geography

Masuno, Shunmyo

• Don’t Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Munk

McCarthy, Cormac

• No Country for Old Men

McCurdy, Jennette

• I’m Glad My Mom Died

McKinty, Adrian

• The Chain

McManus, Karen

• One of Us is Lying
• One of Us is Next

McNamara, Michelle

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

McQuinston, Casey

• One Last Stop

Mead, Rebecca

• Home/Land

Meyer, Stephanie

• Twilight
• New Moon
• Eclipse
• Breaking Dawn

Michaelides, Alex

• The Silent Patient

Miller, Arthur

• The Crucible

Miller, Chanel

• Know My Name

Miller, Lulu

• Why Fish Don’t Exist

Miller, Madeline

• The Song of Achilles
• Circe

Montell, Amanda

• Cultish

Montgomery, Sy

• The Soul of an Octopus
• How to be a Good Creature
• The Hummingbird’s Gift

Moon, Allison

• Getting It

Moore, Alan

• Watchmen

Moore, Kate

• The Radium Girls

Moriarty, Liane

• What Alice Forgot
• Big Little Lies

Morris, Heather

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Morris, Thomas

• The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine 

Moyes, JoJo

• Me Before You

Murata, Sayaka

• Convenience Store Woman

Nagoski, Emily

• Come as You Are

Newman, Kristen

• What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

Newport, Cal

• Digital Minimalism

Neuvel, Sylvain

• The Test

Ng, Celeste

• Everything I Never Told You
• Little Fires Everywhere

Nijhuis, Michelle

• Beloved Beasts

Noah, Trevor

• Born a Crime

Oluo, Ijeoma

• So You Want to Talk About Race

Orwell, George

• Animal Farm

Oseman, Alice

• Heartstopper (vol. 1)
• Heartstopper (vol. 2)
• Heartstopper (vol. 3)

O’Sullivan, Suzanne

• The Sleeping Beauties

Owens, Delia

• Where the Crawdads Sing

Palahniuk, Chuck

• Invisible Monsters

Park, Yeonmi

• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

Phelps-Roper, Megan

• Unfollow: A Journey from Hated to Hope

Philbrick, Nathaniel

• In the Heart of the Sea

Picoult, Jodi

• Leaving Time
• A Spark of Light
• Wish You Were Here

Plath, Sylvia

• The Bell Jar

Pollan, Michael

• How to Change Your Mind
• This is Your Mind on Plants

Power, Rory

• Wilder Girls

Radden Keefe, Patrick

• Say Nothing

Ramos, Joanne

• The Farm

Reid, Iain

• I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Reid, Kiley

• Such a Fun Age

Remini, Leah

• Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Reyes, Sonora

• The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

Reynolds, Jason

• Stamped: Racism, Anti-racism and You

Riordan, Rick

• The Lightening Thief
• Sea of Monsters
• The Titan’s Curse
• The Battle of the Labyrinth
• The Last Olympian
• The Lost Hero
• The Son of Neptune
• The Mark of Athena
• The House of Hades
• The Blood of Olympus 

Roach, Mary

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Ronson, Jon

• The Psychopath Test
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

Rooney, Sally

• Normal People
• Beautiful World, Where Are You

Rosling, Hans

• Factfulness

Roth, Veronica

• Divergent

Rothstein, Richard

• The Color of Law

Ruiz Zafon, Carlos

• The Shadow of the Wind

Russell, Kate Elizabeth

• My Dark Vanessa

Russo, Meredith

• If I Was Your Girl

Saad, Layla F.

• Me and White Supremacy

Sachar, Louis

• Holes

Safran Foer, Jonathan

• Eating Animals

Sagar, Riley

• Lock Every Door
• Home Before Dark

Sauma, Luiza

• Everything You Ever Wanted

Schumer, Amy

• The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

Schwartz, Alvin

• Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark

Sebold, Alice

• The Lovely Bones

Sedaris, David

• Calypso

Semple, Maria

• Where’d You Go Bernadette

Sepetys, Ruta

• Salt to the Sea

Serle, Rebecca

• One Italian Summer

Shroder, Tom

• Acid Test: LSD, Esctasy and the Power to Heal

Shukla, Nikesh

• The Good Immigrant

Shusterman, Neil

• Scythe

Silvera, Adam

• The Both Die at the End

Skloot, Rebecca

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Slaughter, Karin

• Pretty Girls

Solnit, Rebecca

• Men Explain Things to Me

Solomon, Rivers

• An Unkindness of Ghosts
• The Deep

Spade, Dean

• Mutual Aide

Stanton, Brandon

• Humans

Stein, Garth

• The Art of Racing in the Rain

Steinbeck, John

• Of Mice and Men

Stevenson, Bryan

• Just Mercy

Stockett, Kathryn

• The Help

Strayed, Cheryl

• Wild

Stryker, Susan

• Transgender History

Summers, Courtney

• Sadie

Sun, Jonny

• Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

Svensson, Patrik

• The Book of Eels

Taddeo, Lisa

• Three Women

Telgemeier, Raina

• Smile

Tevis, Walter

• The Queen’s Gambit

Thomas, Angie

• The Hate U Give

Thomas, Leah

• The Intersectional Environmentalist

Todd, Anna

• After

Tolentino, Jia

• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Tolkien, J. R. R.

• The Hobbit

Towles, Amor

• A Gentleman in Moscow

• The End of Policing

von Ziegesar, Cecily

• Gossip Girl

W.

Wall, Elisa

• Stolen Innocence

Wall Kimmerer, Robin

• Braiding Sweetgrass

Ware, Ruth

• In a Dark, Dark Wood
• The Woman In Cabin 10
• The Turn of the Key
• One by One

Warrington, Ruby

• Sober Curious

Westover, Tara

• Educated

Weideman, Reeves

• Billion Dollar Loser

Whitaker, Holly

• Quit Like a Woman

Winstead, Ashley

• In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

Witton, Hannah

• Doing It! Let’s Talk About Sex

Wilkerson, Isabel

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Winn, Raynor

• The Salt Path

Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary

• Frankenstein

Wong, Alice

• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century 

Yanagihara, Hanya

• A Little Life

Yoon, Nicola

• The Sun is Also a Star
• Everything, Everything

Zauner, Michelle

• Crying in H Mart

Zusak, Markus

• The Book Thief

Last updated December 18, 2022