A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean

Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains by Kerri Arsenault

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell (Contributor), Tantum Collins (Contributor), David Silverman (Contributor)

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in their Efforts for Freedom by William Still

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola

Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (first half)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Stress-Proof: The Scientific Solution to Protect Your Brain and Body--And Be More Resilient Every Day by Mithu Storoni

One Station Away by Olaf Olafsson

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South by Anne Moody

Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin by Alexander Pushkin, Translation by Pevear & Volokhonsky (first quarter)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

How to Be Black by Baratunde R. Thurston

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff