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“Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare” by by Niran Al-Agba and Rebekah Bernard
“The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe” by Stephon Alexander
“A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal” by Kate Aronoff et al.
“The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett
“Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking” by Michael Booth
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë
“The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov
“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler
“Exhalation: Stories” by Ted Chiang
“The Awakening” by Kate Chopin
"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“Sabrina” by Nick Drnaso
“A Floating Life: The Adventures of Li Po" by Simon Elegant
“The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance” by Timothy Gallwey
“Talking to Strangers” by Malcolm Gladwell
“Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion” by Elisha Goldstein
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” as told to Alex Haley
"Brief Answers to the Big Questions" by Stephen Hawking
“Dune” by Frank Herbert
"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
“The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro
“All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis” edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson
“Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die” by Charles Kamasaki
“Toki Pona: the language of good – the simple way of life" by B.J. Knight
“To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History” by Lawrence Levy
“Severance” by Ling Ma
“Doing Good Better” by William MacAskill
“To Live Again” by Catherine Marshall
“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
“Becoming” by Michelle Obama
"The Memory Police" by Yōko Ogawa
"Bring Me Back” by B.A. Paris
“In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex” by Nathaniel Philbrick
“Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid
“Patron Saints of Nothing” by Randy Ribay
“Juliet Takes a Breath” by Gabby Rivera
“Normal People” by Sally Rooney
“Lovecraft Country” by Matt Ruff
“Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife” by Ariel Sabar
“Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain” by Oliver Sacks
“Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“The Way of Kings” by Brandon Sanderson
“I Will Teach You To Be Rich” by Ramit Sethi
“They Both Die at the End” by Adam Silvera
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith
“Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples” by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
“The Queen’s Gambit” by Walter Tevis
“Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace
“The Invisible Man” by H.G. Wells
"Educated: A Memoir" by Tara Westover
“The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living” by Meik Wiking
“Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century” edited by Alice Wong
"The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak