• Lust for Life – Irving Stone
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates
• New Dark Age – James Bridle
• All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
• Same Same – Peter Mendelsund
• Feel Free – Zadie Smith
• Here I Am – Jonathan Safron Foer
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
• Crudo – Olivia Laing
• Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
• Becoming – Michelle Obama
• String Theory – David Foster Wallace
• Pulphead – John Jeremiah Sullivan
• Trust Exercise – Susan Choi
• Packing My Library – Alberto Manguel
• Human Archipelago – Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh
• LBJ: The Means of Ascent – Robert Caro
• Against Creativity – Oli Mould
• The Incendiaries – R.O. Kwon
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire
• The Odyssey – Homer (Emily Wilson, translation)
• How to Do Nothing – Jenny Odell
• Essayism – Brian Dillion
• In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
• The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip – George Saunders
• Walden – Henry David Thoreau
• Henry N. Cobb: Words and Words – Henry N. Cobb
• True Believers – Kurt Andersen
• Room to Dream – David Lynch
• The Water Dancer – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Bluets – Maggie Nelson
• In Praise of Shadows – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
• Sick in the Head – Judd Apatow
• The Topeka School – Ben Lerner
• Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays – Tom McCarthy
• Run Studio Run – Eli Altman
• On the Shortness of Life – Seneca
• The Hatred of Poetry – Ben Lerner
• The Sellout – Paul Beatty
• Fleishman Is in Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Asymmetry – Lisa Halliday
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking – Rebecca Solnit
• Infinite Detail – Tim Maughan