The Environment / Climate Change / Food Systems
- Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
- The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
- The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner
- This Land by Christopher Ketchum
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Being Human / Humans Being / Human Beings
- The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (and the rest of the trilogy)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by Frank Arthur Worsley
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
History-ish
- The Black Count by Tom Reiss
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
Money / Simple Living
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
Writing
- On Writing by Stephen King
General Good Reads
- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
- The Master and Margerita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien