Health & wellness
The Body Keeps Score - Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine - Uché Blackstock MD
The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us - Anna Malaika Tubbs
Fiction & memoir
This Motherless Land - Nikki May
Writers & Lovers + Heart the Lover - Lily King
Spectacular Things - Beck Dorey-Stein
Blue Sisters - Coco Mellers
The Bright Years - Sarah Damoff
Kin - Tayari Jones
Personal favorites
The Book of Light - Lucille Clifton
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson
Know My Name - Chanel Miller
You Are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett
They’re Going to Love You - Meg Howrey
Educated - Tara Westover