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

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