Is Ian Still in There?
Sarah Zhang  |  The Atlantic

Pym
Mat Johnson

Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib

On the Origin of Species;
On the Origin of Species—And What Might Have Happened Thereafter
Bo-Young Kim  |  On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom

Monstrilio
Gerardo Sámano Córdova

The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward

Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park

Lessons From a Mass Shooter's Mother
Mark Follman  |  Mother Jones

The Space Shuttle That Never Came Home
Adam Higgenbotham  |  The Washington Post (book excerpt)

White Holes
Carlo Rovelli

The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
David Mitchell

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders

A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are
Veronica O'Keane

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut

1984
George Orwell

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and the Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene

Exhalation
Ted Chiang

Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick

The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa

Figuring
Maria Popova

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton

The Altruists
Andrew Ridker

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Rebecca Solnit

In Our Mad and Furious City
Guy Gunaratne

Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Raj Patel

Yellow Submarine
Maria Popova  |  In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo

The Incendiaries
R. O. Kwon

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Anne Helen Petersen

Twelve Minutes and a Life
Mitchell S. Jackson  |  Runner's World

Educated
Tara Westover

The Sandman
Lars Kepler

The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Jason Hickel

Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed
Will Storr

The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt

There, There
Tommy Orange

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe

Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff

The Social Life of Forests
Ferris Jabr  |  The New York Times Magazine

Hiroshima
John Hersey  |  The New Yorker

Going the Distance (and Beyond) to Catch Marathon Cheaters
Gordy Megroz  |  Wired

The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
Lucy Cooke

Nothing but Gifts
Edwin Dobb  |  Harper's Magazine

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence 
Michael Pollan

The Courage of Jill Costello
Chris Ballard  |  Sports Illustrated

The White Darkness
David Grann  |  The New Yorker

When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home
Katheryn Schulz  |  The New Yorker

Power Steer
Michael Pollan  |  The New York Times Magazine

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Sleeping on Jupiter
Anuradha Roy