Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Separated: Inside An American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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

To Be A Slave by Julius Lester

The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton

Angela Merkel: The Authorized Biography by Stefan Kornelius

"I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice by Joe Starita

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The World Doesn't Require You: Stories by Rion Amilcar Scott

Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson

Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Leah A Plunkett

American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 by William Manchester

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock

A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino

The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio J. Méndez

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes by Steven J. Heine

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life by Jason Hanson

Queen Unseen: My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century by Peter Hince

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them by Lucy Jones

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

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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