As much as I love the escapism of fiction, here is a collection of non-fiction and essays to pull me back into the real world
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last updated December, 2025
Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia
Mike Pepi
We Survived the Night
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Down the Drain
Julia Fox
The Wild Iris
Louise GlĂźck
Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Iâm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
Hijab Butch Blues
Lamya H.
Typhoid Mary
Anthony Bourdain
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Jeremy Atherton Lin
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More
Annie Raser-Rowland
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek Se-hee
Want
Gillian Anderson
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Larry Mitchell
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic
Alice Tarbuck
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks
On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?
Richard Holloway
Sustenance of the Soul
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You
Meg Josephson
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
All About Love: New Visions
love this idea for a list!! thanks for compiling and sharing đ
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