If I had a place for a bookshelf where I could have books for loan to anyone around me, on how to be a better leader, a better co-worker, a better community member, a better neighbor, a better human, these are the books I would include.
- Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- The Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone and Benjamin Zander
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry, David C. Robertson
- But What if We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present as if it Were the Past, Chuck Klosterman
- Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that Changed our Understanding of the Universe, Mario Livio
- The Callahan Chronicles, Spider Robinson
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
- Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
- From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives, Jeffrey E. Garten
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, Steven Johnson
- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
- How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing your Soul, Adrian Shaughnessy
- If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating, Alan Alda
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why we Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, Carol Tavris
- The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown, Catherine Burns
- Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World, Kirsten Gillibrand
- On Trails: An Exploration, Robert Moor
- Seven Million: A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier for the IRA, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brinks Heist, Gary Craig
- Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente
- Stardance, Spider and Jeanne Robinson
- To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski
- Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life, Lea Berman and Jeremy Bernard
- We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter, Celeste Headlee
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
- Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz, Frank J. Barrett