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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I especially enjoyed Hannah Arendt and Ursula Leguin