Global Health, Ecology, Genetics, Data (F & NF)
- The Water Knife (Bacigalupi)
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Dillard)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Fadiman)
- In the Company of the Poor (Farmer, Gutierrez)
- House on Fire (Foege)
- Messages from Islands (Hanski)
- Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto (Lane)
- Underland (Macfarlane)
- Nature Writings (Muir)
- The Gene (Mukherjee)
- The Invetion of Nature (Wulf)
Nonfiction
- Dignity (Arnade)
- Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community (Berry)
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Caro)
- The Long Loneliness (Day)
- Why Liberalism Failed (Deneen)
- God Created the Integers (Hawking)
- Random House (LeBlanc)
- Periodic Table (Levi)
- Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist (Lovelock)
- Skeletons on the Zahara (King)
- Grace in Addiction (Zahl)
Fiction
- Foundation Trilogy (Asimov)
- Don Quixote (Cervantes)
- Middlemarch (Eliot)
- The Odyssey (Homer)
- Broken Earth Series (Jemisin)
- Three-Body Problem (Liu)
- Cloud Atlas (Mitchell)
- East of Eden (Steinbeck)
- Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Tokarczuk)
- Infinite Jest (Wallace)