BC Libraries staff very quickly produced an eclectic list of 31 titles. I recommend also browsing the Holiday Special Staff Picks: library.bc.edu/staff-picks/holiday2022.
48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by Sir David Attenborough
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dune by Frank Herbert
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos Good
Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett <
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and Middle Class do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Frieden
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez