Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

David Axelrod, Believer (2016)

Russell Baker, Growing Up

Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth

Ajahn Brahm, Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?

Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)

Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Natalie Goldberg, Long Quiet Highway

Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind

Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments

Garrett Graff, The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller’s FBI and the Global War on Terror (2012)

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness

Michael Herr, Dispatches

Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir (2016)

Haven Kimmel, A Girl Named Zippy

Patrick Lencioni, Five Dysfunctions of a Team

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, March (2016)

David Lodge, The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

James McBride, The Color of Water

Adam Resnick, Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation

Richard Russo, Straight Man

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Adrian Tomine, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (2020)

Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley (2020)

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?