Non-Fiction
- Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum
- Hunger by Roxanne Gay
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- Ted Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
- Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China by Leslie K. Wang
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
- The Power of Positive Deviance by Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin and Ricardo Pascale
- The Deepest Well: Healing the Longterm Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris
- All I Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
- Transracial and Transnational Adoption edited by Vilna Bashi-Treitler
- Origin Narratives: What we Tell Children about Immigration and Intercountry Adoption by Macarena Garcia-González
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- The Best Possible Immigrants by Rachel Rains Winslow
- Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love by Jim Ottaviani & Dylan Meconis
- How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price
- Critical Race Theory by Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado
- Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
Poetry
- Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
- Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
- A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
Fiction
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee