Nonfiction
• Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Mary Douglas.
• New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future. James Bridle.
• Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World. Johan Redström and Heather Wiltse.
• Staying with the Trouble through Design: Critical-feminist Design of Intimate Technology. Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard.
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Donna J. Haraway.
• Design Things. Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde and Ina Wagner.
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built. Stewart Brand.
• On Trails: An Exploration. Robert Moor.
• The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels. Jon Meacham.
• The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste. Rose George.
• Designerly Ways of Knowing. Nigel Cross.
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. Jared Diamond.
• Humanistic HCI. Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell.
• Crafting Experience: Designing Digital Musical Instruments for Long-Term Use in Artistic Practice. Ludvig Elblaus.
• Making Design Theory. Johan Redström.
• Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. Virginia Eubanks.
• Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema. David A. Kirby.
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. Matthew Walker.
• Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing. Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren.
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Susan Cain.
• Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. Lucy Suchman.
• Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy. Richard E. Ocejo.
• The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less. Richard Koch.
• Machine Learners: Archaeology of a Data Practice. Adrian Mackenzie.
• Weapons of Math Destruction. Cathy O’Neil.
• Technology as Experience. John McCarthy and Peter Wright.
• Making Preciousness: Interaction Design Through Studio Crafts. Vasiliki Tsaknaki.
Literary Nonfiction
• French Children Don’t Throw Food. Pamela Druckerman.
• The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia. Michael Booth.
• Outline. Rachel Cusk.
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. Bill Bryson.
• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. Rolf Potts.
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Christopher McDougall.
• Tuesdays with Morrie. Mitch Albom.
• Walden: Civil Disobedience. Henry David Thoreau.
Fiction
• A Little Life. Hanya Yanagihara.
• Cowboys Are My Weakness. Pam Houston.
• Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng.
• Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens.
• The Summer Book. Tove Jansson.
• Dubliners. James Joyce.
• The Night Circus. Erin Morgenstern.
• 12 Short Stories: A Key to the Georgian Mentality. Archil Khantadze.
• The Nightingale. Kristin Hannah.
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Gail Honeyman.
• All the Light We Cannot See. Anthony Doerr.
• Rules of Civility. Amor Towles.
• Small Great Things. Jodi Picoult.