- “Light from Uncommon Stars” (2021) by Ryka Aoki
- “Razor: Revolutionary Art for Cultural Revolution” (2012) by Amiri Baraka
- “The Personal Librarian” (2021) by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
- “Out of Africa” (1937) by Karen Blixen
- “Ten Restaurants That Changed America” (2016) by Paul Freedman
- “Good Girls” (2023) by Hadley Freeman
- “The Third Man” (1950) by Graham Greene
- “The Mission Song” (2006) by John le Carré
- “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold” (1963) by John le Carré
- “Prophet Song” (2023) by Paul Lynch
- “The Mirror & the Light” (2020) by Hilary Mantel
- “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech” (2023) by Brian Merchant
- “Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking” (2016) by Anne Elizabeth Moore
- “The God of the Woods” (2024) by Liz Moore
- “The Dogs of Babel” (2003) by Carolyn Parkhurst
- “The Maid” (2022) by Nita Prose
- “The Love Which Comes from Our Birth” (2023) from Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools
- “Shakespeare’s Sisters” (2024) by Ramie Targoff
- “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective” (2017) edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- “Long Island” (2024) by Colm Toibin
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