The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf

Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Illustrated by H.P. Lovecraft and Jason Bradley Thompson

Erasure by Percival Everett

Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Making of Economic Society by Robert Heilbroner

Market Day by James Sturm

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

The Walking Dead by Rob Kirkman and Tony Moore

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Write to the Point by Sam Leith