In no particular order, of course.
Assorted Fiction
- Jane Eyre (classic, romance, fiction)
- North and South (classic, romance, fiction)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (fiction, dystopia)
- Never Let me Go (fiction, dystopia)
- 1984 (fiction, dystopia)
Assorted Non-Fiction
- Books by Pete Dunne, such as Prairie Spring: A Journey into the Heart of a Season, Feather Quest (non-fiction, nature, birds)
- The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (non-fiction, women, social commentary)
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (non-fiction, american history)
- The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade (non-fiction, history, social commentary)
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination(non-fiction, memoir, grief)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (non-fiction, immigrant experience, cross-cultural communication)
- Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (non-fiction, memoir, animal behavior)
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (non-fiction, evolution, biology)
- Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan (non-fiction, memoir, travel)
- The Non-Designer’s Design & Type Books (graphic design)
Graphic Format
- Maus (graphic memoir)
- Good Eggs (graphic memoir)
- Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me (graphic memoir)
- Scott McCloud’s comics about comics (Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics)
True Crime
- Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
- In Cold Blood
- Columbine
Food
- Miriam’s Kitchen: A Memoir (non-fiction, memoir, food, judaism)
- The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food (non-fiction, memoir, food)
- Monsoon Diary (non-fiction, memoir, food)
- Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India (non-fiction, memoir, food)
- My Life in France (non-fiction, memoir, food)
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