Creativity is developed through exposure to new perspectives, concepts, and stories. If everything is a remix, the more we have to mix with, the more we can create.
My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
Circe - Madeline Miller
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark - Michelle McNamara
Mercies in Disguise - Gina Kolata
Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
Vacationland - John Hodgeman
Becoming - Michelle Obama
Stiff - Mary Roach
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
Wonder - R. J. Palacio
Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
Code Girls - Liza Mundy
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
Conversational Design - Erika Hall
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
What Color is Your Parachute - Richard N. Bolles
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love - Marty Cagan
Talking to my Daughter about the Economy or How Capitalism Works - And How It Fails - Yanis Varoufakis
Educated - Tara Westover
User Story Mapping - Jeff Patton & Peter Economy
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
The Second Mountain - David Brooks
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
The Captured - Scott Zesch
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto - Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser
News of The World - Paulette Jiles
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N. K. Jemisin
Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Warrior - Nnedi Okorafor
Hooked - Nyr Eyal
Broken Places & Outer Spaces - Nnedi Okorafor
Free Cyntoia - Cyntoia Brown-Long
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
From a Certain Point of View - Renée Ahdieh
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula k. Le Guin
The Broken Kingdoms - NK Jemsin
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyem
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Sherman Alexi
The Kingdom of Gods - NK Jemsin
Men Explain Things To Me - Rebecca Solnit
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin
The Power - Naomi Alderman
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
Black Panther: A Nation Under our Feet, Book One - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
Broadband - Claire L. Evans
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care - T.R. Reid
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick - Maya Dusenbery
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
His Family - Ernest Poole
A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle
The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya
Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor
Natural Causes - Barbara Ehrenreich
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
Four and Twenty Blackbirds - Cherie Priest
Bored and Brilliant - Manoush Zomorodi
First, Break all the Rules - Gallup
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Creativity Inc. - Ed Catmull
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
Black Klansman - Ron Stallworth
Factfulness - Hans Rosling
How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare - HBR
The First 90 Days - Michael Watkins
Sketching User Experiences - Bill Buxton
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger - Soraya L. Chemaly