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The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

The Plague, by Albert Camus

How to Think, by Alan Jacobs

Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong (a compilation of essays)

Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren

How to Catch a Mole, by Marc Hamer

Erosion, by Terry Tempest Williams

The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery, by Mary Cregan

The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

The Dirty Life, by Kristin Kimball

Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli

Let Me Not Be Mad, by A.K. Benjamin

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

The Medusa and the Snail, by Lewis Thomas

The Gigantic Beard that Became Evil, by Stephen Collins

Phantoms on the Bookshelves, by Jacques Bonnet

Federer and Me, by William Skidelsky

Notes on a Thesis, by Tiphaine RivieĢ€re

The Circuit, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

The Shadow of the Wind, The Circuit, Wonder Boys, and The Lathe of Heaven

Passing for Human, by Liana Finck

Outline, by Rachel Cusk

Time Was, The Botany of Desire, and The Milk-Lady of Bangalore

The Overstory, by Richard Powers

Ex Libris, and, At Large and at Small, by Anne Fadiman

Ursula K. Le Guin

Greenland and Frederick Backman

The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui

The Earthsea Cycle, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, by Mason Currey

Autumn, by Karl Ove Knausgaard


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