exploring & escapades

Fiction

1. Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
2. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Márquez
4. Go Tell It On The Mountain – James Baldwin
5. Disappearing Earth – Julia Phillips 
6. Tell Them Of Battles, Kings, and Elephants – Mathias Enard
7. Nocilla Dream – Agustín Fernández Mallo
8. Florida – Lauren Groff
9. Insurrecto – Gina Apostol
10. The Fallen – Carlos Manuel Álvarez
11. The Secret Commonwealth – Philip Pullman
12. Circe – Madeline Miller
13. My Name is Leon – Kit de Waal

Nonfiction

1. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World – Peter Frankopan 
2. How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor – Erik Reinert 
3. The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers – Ted Jones
4. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy – Joseph Schumpeter 
5. Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs – Edited by Samuel Zipp & Nathan Storring 
6. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions – Gloria Steinem
7. GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History- Diane Coyle 
8. The Souls of Black Folks – W. E. B. Du Bois
9. Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age – Matthew J. Salganik
10. Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
11. Second Hand Time – Svetlana Alexievich 
12. Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood – Gwen Raverat
13. Man Alone With Himself – Friedrich Nietzsche
14. Arena of Ambition: A History of the Cambridge Union – Stephen Parkinson 
15. Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You About This Magnificent Life – Kate Gross 
16. Pretentiousness: Why it Matters – Dan Fox
17. The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
18. New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dixie, and K-Pop – Fatima Bhutto 
19. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting From the Arab World – Zahra Hankir 
20. Sunshine State (Essays) – Sarah Gerard 
21. The Fated Sky: Astrology in History – Benson Bobrick

Poetry/Essay Collections

1. Who is Mary Sue? – Sophie Collins
2. A Thousand Mornings – Mary Oliver
3. My Poems Won’t Change the World – Patrizia Cavalli
4. And Still I Rise – Maya Angelou
5. Selected Poems – Rainer Maria Rilke
6. Please – Jericho Brown
7. Whereas – Layli Long Soldier
8. Selected Poems – Rumi
9. Lord Byron – selected by Paul Muldoon
10. She is Fierce: Brave, bold, and beautiful poems by women – Ana Sampson
11. Measure of Expatriation – Vahni Capildeo
12. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám – Edward FitzGerald