Books (nonfiction)
Culture books
- Sex at Dawn by Christopher Jetha and Cacilda Ryan
- Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Insight by Tasha Eurich
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
How did we get here books
- White Trash by Nancy Isenberg
- Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff
- Twilight of the Elites – America after Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes
- Political Tribes by Amy Chua
- Because We Say So by Noam Chomsky (or pretty much anything he’s written)
Buddhist books
- The Lost Art of Compassion by Lorne Ladner
- The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
- When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Meditation books (without the Buddhism)
Change the world books
- Active Hope: How to face the mess we’re in without going crazy by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
- Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Revolution Where You Live by Sarah van Gelder
- The Fabians by Norman MacKenzie
- The Copernican Revolution by Thomas S Kuhn
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Books (fiction)
Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer
Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Injection by Warren Ellis, Jordie Bellaire, and Declan Shalvey
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Running Man by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King)