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    I have no idea what book to select.

    •Edward Abbey – Desert Solitaire
    •Diane Ackerman – A Natural History of the Senses
    •The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
    •Hannah Arendt – Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Origins of Totalitarianism
    •Sven Birkerts – The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
    •William F. Buckley – Miles Gone By: A Literary Biography
    •Ian Buruma – Year Zero: A History of 1945, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
    •Nicolas Carr – The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
    •Rachel Carson – The Sea Around Us, Silent Spring
    •Veronica Chambers (editor)- The Meaning of Michelle: 16 writers on Michelle Obama
    •Ta-Nehesi Coates—Between the World and Me
    •Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene
    •Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album
    •Annie Dillard – Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    •W.E.B. DuBois – The Souls of Black Folk, The Talented Tenth
    •Barbara Ehrenreich – Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
    •Loren Eiseley – The Immense Journey: Darwin’s Century
    •Ronan Farrow – Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and the Conspiracy to Protect Predators
    •M. F. K. Fisher – The Art of Eating, The Gastronomical Me
    •Shelby Foote – The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville, The Civil War: A Narrative
    •Thomas Friedman – The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
    •Paul Fussell – The Great War and Modern Memory, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
    •Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Colored People, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
    •Atul Gawande – Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
    •Roxanne Gay – Bad Feminist, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
    •David Grann—The Wager
    •Jane Goodall – In the Shadow of Man, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
    •Stephen Jay Gould – Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, The Mismeasure of Man
    •David Halberstam – The Best and the Brightest, The Breaks of the Game
    •Greg Lukenianoff and Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind: How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure.
    •Jonathan Haidt—The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    •Christopher Hitchens- God is Not Great, Hitch 22
    Edward Hoagland- Cat Man, The Circle Home
    •Kirk Johnson- The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
    •Pauline Kael- I Lost it at the Movies
    Patrick Radden Keefe – Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Empire of Pain
    •Tracy Kidder- Mountains Beyond Mountains, The Soul of a New Machine
    •Martin Luther King, Jr.- Stride Toward Freedom
    •Maxine Hong Kingston- The Woman Warrior
    •Naomi Klein- No Logo, The Shock Doctrine
    •Lewis Lapham- Money and Class in America, Age of Folly
    •Ursula LeGuin- No Time to Spare
    •Barry Lopez-Arctic Dreams, Of Wolves and Men
    •Bill McKibben- The End of Nature, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
    •John McPhee- Annals of the former world, Coming into the country
    •N. Scott Momaday- House made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain
    •Sy Montgomery-The Soul of an Octopus
    Siddhartha Mukherjee- The Emperor of all Maladies
    •Susan Orlean-The Library Book
    •Matt Parker—Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
    Steven Pinker- Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of our Nature
    •Michael Pollan- Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, How To Change Your Mind
    •Francine Prose-Reading like a Writer
    •Richard Rodriguez- Darling, Brown
    Carl Sagan: Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot
    Scott Russell Sanders, A Private History of Awe, Hunting for Hope, A Conservationist Manifesto
    •T.M. Scanlon – What We Owe One Another
    A.O. Scott- Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art
    •Simon Schama- The Power of Art, Landscape and Memory
    •Leslie Marmom Silko- Ceremony, Almanac of the dead
    •Clint Smith – How the Word is Passed
    •Susan Sontag – On Photography
    •Bryan Stevenson—Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
    •Jesmyn Ward – Men We Reaped

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