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Alba, Richard. The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream (Princeton University Press, 2020) – diversity, race, social science, politics, policy
Awdish, Rana. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope (Picador, 2018) - health care and medicine, ethics, religion, memoir
Bailey, Isaac J. My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South (Other Press, 2020) – race, justice, politics, diversity, memoir, family
Barrett, Lisa Feldman. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) – psychology, science
Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander. The Art of Possibility (Penguin, 2002) – music, psychology, self-help
Bricker, Darrell and John Ibbitson, Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (Crown, 2019) – politics, policy, social science, ethics, globalization
Butterfield, Rosaria. The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World (Crossway, 2018) – Christianity, evangelism
Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Broadway Books, 2013) – psychology, self-help
Caplan, Bryan. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money (Princeton University Press, 2018) – education, policy
Chan, Sam. Evangelism in a Skeptical World: How to Make the Unbelievable News about Jesus More Believable (Zondervan Academic, 2018) – Christianity, evangelism
Davidson, Adam. The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century (John Murray, 2020) – business, entrepreneurship, economics
Dworkin, Aaron. The Entrepreuneurial Artist: Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) – music, business, self-help
Eagleman, David. The Brain: The Story of You (Vintage, 2015) – psychology, science
el Kaliouby, Rana and Carol Colman. Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology (Currency, 2020) – computer science, technology, gender, memoir
Ellenberg, Jordan. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Penguin, 2015) - mathematics
Fujimura, Makoto. Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life (IVP Books, 2017) – Christianity, art, culture
Gabriel, Mary. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art (Back Bay Books, 2019) – art, gender
Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Picador, 2017) – health care and medicine, ethics, policy
Giboney, Justin, Michael Wear, and Chris Butler. Compassion (&) Conviction: The AND Campaign’s Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement (IVP Books, 2020) – Christianity, politics, justice, race, diversity, reconciliation
Gioia, Ted. Music: A Subversive History (Basic Books, 2019) - music, culture, history
Hall, Edith. How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life (Penguin Books, 2020) – philosophy
Haugen, Gary A. and Victor Boutros, The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford University Press, 2015) – policy, globalization, justice, social science
Hawes, Jennifer Berry. Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness (St. Martin’s Press, 2019) – Christianity, justice, race, diversity
Hirsch, E. D. How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation (Harper, 2020) - education, politics, policy
Huckins, Jon and Jer Swigart. Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World (IVP Books, 2017) – Christianity, justice, race, reconciliation
Keller, Timothy. Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical (Penguin Books, 2018) – Christianity, theology, apologetics
Kendi, Ibram X. How To Be an Antiracist (One World, 2019) – race, diversity, justice, politics, policy
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt, 2014) – science, environment
Kotkin, Joel. The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class (Encounter Books, 2020) – politics, economics, history, justice, globalization
Levin, Yuval. A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream (Basic Books, 2020) – politics, policy, education
Lomborg, Bjorn. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet (Basic Books, 2020) – science, environment, policy
Macy. Beth. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Back Bay Books, 2019) - health care and medicine, justice, politics, policy
McCulloch, Gretchen. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Riverhead Books, 2019) – communication, writing, digital media
McNeil, Brenda Salter. Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now (Brazos Press, 2020) – Christianity, politics, justice, race, diversity, reconciliation
Miodownik, Mark. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) – science
Muehlhoff, Tim and Richard Langer. Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World (IVP Academic, 2017) – Christianity, culture, communication
Myers, Bryant L. Engaging Globalization: The Poor, Christian Mission, and Our Hyperconnected World (Baker Academic, 2017) – Christianity, politics, economics, globalization
O’Neil, Cathy. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Broadway Books, 2017) – mathematics, computer science, policy, politics
Pearl, Judea and Dana Mackenzie. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Basic Books, 2018) – science, mathematics
Perkins, John. One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love (Moody Publishers, 2018) – race, diversity, Christianity, reconciliation
Peterson, Jordan. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Random House, 2018) - self-help, philosophy, religion
Pink, Daniel H. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Riverhead Books, 2019) – psychology, science, economics
Pluckrose, Helen and James Lindsay. Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody (Pitchstone Publishing, 2020) – politics, education, diversity, race, gender
Putnam, Robert D. The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Simon & Schuster, 2020) – history, politics, social science
Remen, Rachel Naomi. My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging (Riverhead Books, 2001) – health care and medicine, memoir, family, religion
Ross, Alex. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Picador, 2008) – music, history
Rota, Michael. Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence and the Abundant Life (IVP Academic, 2016) – Christianity, philosophy, theology, apologetics
Rovelli, Carlo. The Order of Time (Riverhead Books, 2019) – science, philosophy
Sacks, Jonathan. Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (Basic Books, 2020) – politics, policy, history, ethics
Sapolsky, Robert M. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Penguin Books, 2018) – psychology, science
Smith, James K. A. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (Brazos Press, 2016) – Christianity, philosophy, theology
Sowell, Thomas. Charter Schools and their Enemies (Basic Books, 2020) – education, politics, policy, justice, diversity
Su, Francis and Christopher Jackson. Mathematics for Human Flourishing (Yale University Press, 2020) - mathematics
Tisby, Jemar. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Zondervan, 2019) - race, diversity, Christianity, reconciliation, history
Warren, Tish Harrison. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life (IVP Books, 2019) – Christianity, self-help
Westover, Tara. Educated: A Memoir (Random House, 2018) – education, gender, religion, memoir, family
Wexler, Natalie. The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—and How To Fix It (Avery, 2019) – education, policy
Xi, Lian. Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao’s China (Basic Books, 2018) – Christianity, diversity, history, memoir
Yenor, Scott. The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Idealogies (Baylor University Press, 2020)