Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville (1851)

The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin (1963)

Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry (1985)

Harare North — Brian Chikwava (2009)

The House of Hunger — Dambudzo Marechera (1978)

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born — Ayi Kwei Armah (1968)

A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth (1993)

Dreams from My Father — Barack Obama (1995)

Histories — Herodotus (c. 440 BCE)

The Shadow of the Sun — Ryszard Kapuściński (1998)

The Pillow Book — Sei Shōnagon (c. 1002)

Widow Basquiat — Jennifer Clement (2000)

Representations of the Intellectual — Edward Said (1994)

Negroland — Margo Jefferson (2015)

The Emigrants — W. G. Sebald (1992)

Nervous Conditions — Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)

Dictee — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)

or, on being the other woman — Simone White (2022)

The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work — Linda Darling-Hammond (1997)

Necropolitics — Achille Mbembe (2019)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire (1968)

On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects — Gilbert Simondon (1958)

The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics — Louis Chude-Sokei (2015)

Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813)

Persuasion — Jane Austen (1817)

Emma — Jane Austen (1815)

Confessions — Augustine of Hippo (c. 400)

Othello — William Shakespeare (c. 1603)

Kama Sutra — Vātsyāyana (c. 3rd century CE)

Symposium — Plato (c. 385 BCE)

Sundown — John Joseph Mathews (1934)

Ulysses — James Joyce (1922)

Dubliners — James Joyce (1914)

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits — Laila Lalami (2005)

Dance Dance Revolution — Cathy Park Hong (2007)

A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging — Dionne Brand (2001)

Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson (2011)

Blindness — José Saramago (1995)

Human Acts — Han Kang (2014)

The Vegetarian — Han Kang (2007)

Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

If Beale Street Could Talk — James Baldwin (1974)

Another Country — James Baldwin (1962)

The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger (1951)

Franny and Zooey — J. D. Salinger (1961)

The Idiot — Elif Batuman (2017)

Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara (2022)

Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace (2014)

Poor Charlie’s Almanack — Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman (2005)

How Music Works — David Byrne (2012)

Just Kids — Patti Smith (2010)

Speedboat — Renata Adler (1976)

The Poetics of Space — Gaston Bachelard (1958)

History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides (c. 400 BCE)

Stoner — John Williams (1965)

Meet Me in the Bathroom — Lizzy Goodman (2017)

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami (2007)

Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami (1987)

Fever Pitch — Nick Hornby (1992)

Musashi — Eiji Yoshikawa (1935)

Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

Simple Passion — Annie Ernaux (1991)

The Years — Annie Ernaux (2008)

Roots: The Saga of an American Family — Alex Haley (1976)

East of Eden — John Steinbeck (1952)

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847)

The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison (1970)

Sula — Toni Morrison (1973)

One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel García Márquez (1985)

To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf (1927)

The Waves — Virginia Woolf (1931)

The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)

The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka (1915)

The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy (1997)

Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin (1956)

White Teeth — Zadie Smith (2000)

The Talented Mr. Ripley — Patricia Highsmith (1955)

Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino (1972)

Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony — Akio Morita with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura (1986)

The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (2021)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong (2019)

Women, Race & Class — Angela Y. Davis (1981)

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End — Atul Gawande (2014)

Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda — Pablo Neruda, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden (2000)

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft — Stephen King (2000)

The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)

Hiroshima — John Hersey (1946)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown (1970)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William L. Shirer (1960)

Miles: The Autobiography — Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (1989)

Black Boy — Richard Wright (1945)

Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi (2016)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X with Alex Haley (1965)

Born a Crime — Trevor Noah (2016)

The Baron in the Trees — Italo Calvino (1957)

Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (1922)

The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching — Thich Nhat Hanh (1998)

Awakening of the Heart — Thich Nhat Hanh (2011)

The Elements of Style — William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White (1918)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera (1984)

The Candymakers — Wendy Mass (2010)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe — Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2012)

Jazz — Toni Morrison (1992)

Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges (1944)

The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams (1979)

The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead (2019)

Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

The Godfather — Mario Puzo (1969)

Severance — Ling Ma (2018)

The Phantom Tollbooth — Norton Juster (1961)

When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi (2016)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Stephen Chbosky (1999)

The Outsiders — S. E. Hinton (1967)

Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945)

The Physics of Musical Instruments — Neville H. Fletcher and Thomas D. Rossing (1991)

Music, Physics and Engineering — Harry F. Olson (1952)

Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison (1952), The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015), The Stranger — Albert Camus (1942)

From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen — Snoop Dogg (2018)

The French Laundry Cookbook — Thomas Keller (1999)

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen — Jacques Pépin (2003)

Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell (1933)

The Omnivore’s Dilemma — Michael Pollan (2006)

How to Cook Everything — Mark Bittman (1998)

The Joy of Cooking — Irma S. Rombauer (1931)

The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus (1942)

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food — Dan Barber (2014)

D.O.M.: Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients — Alex Atala (2013)

The Devil in the Kitchen — Marco Pierre White with James Steen (2006)

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Anthony Bourdain (2000)

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville (1851)

The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin (1963)

Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry (1985)

Harare North — Brian Chikwava (2009)

The House of Hunger — Dambudzo Marechera (1978)

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born — Ayi Kwei Armah (1968)

A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth (1993)

Dreams from My Father — Barack Obama (1995)

Histories — Herodotus (c. 440 BCE)

The Shadow of the Sun — Ryszard Kapuściński (1998)

The Pillow Book — Sei Shōnagon (c. 1002)

Widow Basquiat — Jennifer Clement (2000)

Representations of the Intellectual — Edward Said (1994)

Negroland — Margo Jefferson (2015)

The Emigrants — W. G. Sebald (1992)

Nervous Conditions — Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)

Dictee — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)

or, on being the other woman — Simone White (2022)

The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work — Linda Darling-Hammond (1997)

Necropolitics — Achille Mbembe (2019)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire (1968)

On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects — Gilbert Simondon (1958)

The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics — Louis Chude-Sokei (2015)

Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813)

Persuasion — Jane Austen (1817)

Emma — Jane Austen (1815)

Confessions — Augustine of Hippo (c. 400)

Othello — William Shakespeare (c. 1603)

Kama Sutra — Vātsyāyana (c. 3rd century CE)

Symposium — Plato (c. 385 BCE)

Sundown — John Joseph Mathews (1934)

Ulysses — James Joyce (1922)

Dubliners — James Joyce (1914)

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits — Laila Lalami (2005)

Dance Dance Revolution — Cathy Park Hong (2007)

A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging — Dionne Brand (2001)

Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson (2011)

Blindness — José Saramago (1995)

Human Acts — Han Kang (2014)

The Vegetarian — Han Kang (2007)

Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

If Beale Street Could Talk — James Baldwin (1974)

Another Country — James Baldwin (1962)

The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger (1951)

Franny and Zooey — J. D. Salinger (1961)

The Idiot — Elif Batuman (2017)

Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara (2022)

Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace (2014)

Poor Charlie’s Almanack — Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman (2005)

How Music Works — David Byrne (2012)

Just Kids — Patti Smith (2010)

Speedboat — Renata Adler (1976)

The Poetics of Space — Gaston Bachelard (1958)

History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides (c. 400 BCE)

Stoner — John Williams (1965)

Meet Me in the Bathroom — Lizzy Goodman (2017)

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami (2007)

Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami (1987)

Fever Pitch — Nick Hornby (1992)

Musashi — Eiji Yoshikawa (1935)

Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

Simple Passion — Annie Ernaux (1991)

The Years — Annie Ernaux (2008)

Roots: The Saga of an American Family — Alex Haley (1976)

East of Eden — John Steinbeck (1952)

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847)

The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison (1970)

Sula — Toni Morrison (1973)

One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel García Márquez (1985)

To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf (1927)

The Waves — Virginia Woolf (1931)

The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)

The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka (1915)

The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy (1997)

Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin (1956)

White Teeth — Zadie Smith (2000)

The Talented Mr. Ripley — Patricia Highsmith (1955)

Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino (1972)

Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony — Akio Morita with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura (1986)

The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (2021)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong (2019)

Women, Race & Class — Angela Y. Davis (1981)

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End — Atul Gawande (2014)

Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda — Pablo Neruda, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden (2000)

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft — Stephen King (2000)

The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)

Hiroshima — John Hersey (1946)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown (1970)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William L. Shirer (1960)

Miles: The Autobiography — Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (1989)

Black Boy — Richard Wright (1945)

Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi (2016)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X with Alex Haley (1965)

Born a Crime — Trevor Noah (2016)

The Baron in the Trees — Italo Calvino (1957)

Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (1922)

The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching — Thich Nhat Hanh (1998)

Awakening of the Heart — Thich Nhat Hanh (2011)

The Elements of Style — William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White (1918)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera (1984)

The Candymakers — Wendy Mass (2010)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe — Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2012)

Jazz — Toni Morrison (1992)

Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges (1944)

The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams (1979)

The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead (2019)

Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

The Godfather — Mario Puzo (1969)

Severance — Ling Ma (2018)

The Phantom Tollbooth — Norton Juster (1961)

When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi (2016)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Stephen Chbosky (1999)

The Outsiders — S. E. Hinton (1967)

Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945)

The Physics of Musical Instruments — Neville H. Fletcher and Thomas D. Rossing (1991)

Music, Physics and Engineering — Harry F. Olson (1952)

Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison (1952), The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015), The Stranger — Albert Camus (1942)

From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen — Snoop Dogg (2018)

The French Laundry Cookbook — Thomas Keller (1999)

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen — Jacques Pépin (2003)

Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell (1933)

The Omnivore’s Dilemma — Michael Pollan (2006)

How to Cook Everything — Mark Bittman (1998)

The Joy of Cooking — Irma S. Rombauer (1931)

The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus (1942)

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food — Dan Barber (2014)

D.O.M.: Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients — Alex Atala (2013)

The Devil in the Kitchen — Marco Pierre White with James Steen (2006)

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Anthony Bourdain (2000)