• Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
• If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers, Hannah Brencher
• Every Good Endeavor, Timothy Keller with Katherine Leary Alsdorf
• Home, Marilynne Robinson
• Lila, Marilynne Robinson
• Watership Down, Richard Adams
• Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art, Helen McDonald
• Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art, Jennifer New
• Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
• Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
• 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment, Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
• Perelandra, C.S. Lewis
• The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
• Mindfulness: 25 Ways to Live in the Moment Through Art, Christophe Andre
• Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg
• Dog Songs, Mary Oliver
• Color: A Natural History of the Palette, Victoria Finlay
• Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
• Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, James Elkins
• No Matter the Wreckage, Sarah Kay
• One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, B.J. Novak
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
• That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis
• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival Resilience, and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand
• How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers
• A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Sylvan Barnet
• Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Jed Rasula
• Women in Clothes, Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton
• Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver
• Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics, Nada M. Shabout
• Stardust: Supernovae and Life – The Cosmic Connection, John Gribbin
• Slaugherhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• *Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Lauren F. Winner
• CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders
• A Poetry Handbook, Mary Oliver
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
• Pastoralia, George Saunders
• H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald
• Remote Control: Power, Culture, and the World of Appearances, Barbara Kruger
• Buddhism for Beginners, Thubten Chodron
• The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone
• Fool Me Once, Harlan Coban
• Cold Tangerines, Shauna Niequist
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Shunryu Suzuki
• McSweeney’s #44, edited by Dave Eggers
• Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal, Joseph Campbell
• A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
• Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land, Joel Brinkley
• *Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Rachel Held Evans
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
• The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett
• How to be Both, Ali Smith
• Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, Donald Miller
• Thirst: Poems, Mary Oliver
• Evidence: Poems, Mary Oliver
• The Book of Buddhas: Ritual Symbolism Used on Buddhist Statuary and Ritual Objects, Eva Rudy Jansen
• Swan: Poems and Prose Poems, Mary Oliver
• The Circle, Dave Eggers
• TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking, Chris J. Anderson
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

* = re-read