Teacher:  The One Who Made the Difference (Mark Edmundson)
Lives on the Boundary (Mike Rose)
Teacher Man (Frank McCourt)
Socrates Café (Christopher Phillips)
The Intelligence of Emotions (Martha Nussbaum)
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
Ender’s Game (Orson Card)*
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)

A Sense of the Mysterious (Alan Lightman)
Uncle Tungsten (Oliver Sacks)
The Double Helix:  A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (James D. Watson)
One True, Platonic Heaven (John Casti)
The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen Jay Gould)*
October Sky (Homer Hickham, Jr.)
The Creative Mind (Margaret Boden)

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids (Murray Milner, Jr.)
My Freshman Year (Rebekah Nathan)
Binge:  What Your College Student Won’t Tell You (Barrett Seaman)*

In My Mother’s House: A Daughter’s Story (Kim Chernin)
Outlaw Culture (bell hooks)
Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America (James William Gibson)*

Adam’s Curse: A Future without Men (Bryan Sykes)Undoing Gender (Judith Butler)
Gender, Nature, and Nurture (Richard A. Lippa)
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights (Deborah Rudacille)
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Anne Fausto-Sterling)
Gender Shock:  Exploding the Myths of Male and Female (Phyllis Burke)

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother (Kim Chernin)
The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls (Colette Dowling)
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (Arlie Russell Hochschild & Barbara Ehrenreich)
Family Man:  Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity (Scott Coltrane)
The Gender Knot:  Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy  (Allan G. Johnson)

The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Leguin)
Dance on My Grave or Postcards from No Man’s Land (Aidan Chambers)
Missing You: Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent (Anthony Rapp)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)

Adam’s Curse: A Future without Men (Bryan Sykes)
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights (Deborah Rudacille)
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Anne Fausto-Sterling)
Mystery Dance:  On the Evolution of Human Sexuality  (Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan)

The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism  (J. Michael Bailey)
Dating:  Delights, Discontents, and Dilemmas  (Mary Riege Laner)
Falling in Love:  Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose (Ayala Malach Pines)
Sex, Love & Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals and Their Influence  (Mary-Lou Galician)*

Race Matters (Cornel West)
Outlaw Culture or Where We Stand or Reel to Real  (bell hooks)
The Way to Rainy Mountain or House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday)
Mona in the Promised Land (Gish Jen)
No-no Boy (John Okada)
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Mark Mathabane)
Buried Onions (Gary Soto)

The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America (Steven Fraser, editor)
The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen Jay Gould)*

Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class or Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (Arlie Russell Hochschild & Barbara Ehrenreich)
Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture (Andrew Hurley)
Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture (Elizabeth Chin)

Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating (Geneen Roth)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
Diary of an Eating Disorder (Chelsea Smith and Beverly Runyon)
Life without Ed:  How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too (Jenni Schaefer with Thom Rutledge)
You Remind Me of You [poems] (Eireann Corrigan)

The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Binge Eating Disorder  (James N. Parker and Philip M. Parker, editors)
The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders  (Carolyn Costin)
What Einstein Told His Cook:  Kitchen Science Explained (Robert L. Wolke)
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Marion Nestle)*
Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)*
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (Greg Critxer)*
The Botany of Desire:  A Plant's-Eye View of the World or The Omnivore's Dilemma:  A Natural History of Four Meals  (Michael Pollan)

Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman’s Tragic Quest for Thinness (Mary Pipher)
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating, and Identity (Kim Chernin)
The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness (Kim Chernin)
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition (Susan Bordo)

Smack (Melvin Burgess)
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Koren Zailckas)
Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism (George McGovern)
Alcoholism: The Genetic Inheritance (Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald)

You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way? New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction (Colette Dowling)
Beyond the Influence: Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism (Katherine Ketcham and William F. Asbury)
Alcoholism Myths and Realities: Removing the Stigma of Society's most Destructive Disease (Doug Thorburn)

What It Takes To Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out (David L. Marcus)
Binge: What Your College Student Won’t Tell You (Barrett Seaman)*
The Fix:  Solving the Nation's Drug Problem (Michael Massing)

Shoeless Joe or The Great Iowa Baseball Confederacy (W. P. Kinsella)
The Natural (Bernard Malamud)
A River Runs Through It (Norman Maclean)
Roughnecksi (Thomas Couchran)
The White Boy Shuffle (Paul Beatty)

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap (Alex Ogg and David Upshal)
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Jeff Chang)
The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer [opera] (Renee Fleming)

Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination (Robert Jourdain)
Emotion and Meaning in Music (Leonard B. Meyer)
Science of Percussion Instruments (Thomas D. Rossing)
Categories On the Beauty of Physics : Essential Physics Concepts and Their Companions in Art and Literature (H. T. Hamann)

Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement (S. Craig Watkins)
Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture (Yvonne Bynoe)   

In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
Anil’s Ghost (Michael Ondaatje)

The Open Space of Democracy (Terry Tempest Williams)
Riverwalking (Kathleen Dean Moore)Any work by John Muir
Sand County Almanac (Aldo Leopold)Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)

An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe (Elizabeth Kolbert)
The Weather Makers (Tim Flannery)
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed or The Control of Nature (John McPhee)
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Alan Burdick)

Collapse (Jared Diamond)*
The Island of the Colorblind (Oliver Sacks)*
Coming into the Country or The Pine Barrens (John McPhee)
Cod (Mark Kurlansky)

Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society (Arthur Asa Berger)
Sex, Love & Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals and Their Influence  (Mary-Lou Galician)*
Advertising to Children on TV:  Content, Impact, and Regulation (Barry Gunter, Caroline Oates, and Mark Blades)
Technopoly:  The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Neil Postman)

Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism (Allan Hunt Badiner)
Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals (Elizabeth H. Pleck)
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (Eric Schlosser)
The Mosquito Coast (Paul Theroux)

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Marion Nestle)
Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (Greg Critxer)
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (Susan Strasser)
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash (Elizabeth Royte)

Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society (Arthur Asa Berger)
The McDonaldization of Society (George Ritzer)
Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture (Elizabeth Chin)
The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downsizing, and the New Consumer (Juliet B. Schor)
Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)
The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)

1984 (George Orwell)
Seven Years in Tibet (Heinrich Harrer)
Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
First They Killed My Father (Loung Ung)
The Things They Carried or  If I Die in a Combat Zone (Tim O’Brien)
And a Hard Rain Fell (John Ketwig)
Fallen Angels (Walter Dean Myers)
We Were Soldiers Once, and Young (Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway)
A Rumor of War (Philip Caputo)
Indian Country (Philip Caputo)
Jarhead (Anthony Swofford)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Housseini)

Hitler’s Scientists (John Cornwell)
War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Edmund Russell)
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge To China's Future (Elizabeth C. Economy)
The Curve of Binding Energy (John McPhee)
E=mc2 (David Bodanis)

Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)*
The World Is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America (James William Gibson)*
Hitler’s Pope (John Cornwell)
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Barbara Ehrenreich)