Autumn

History: The Three Ages of Water, Peter Gleick, 2023

Science: The Hidden Half, The Unseen Forces that Influence Everything, Michael Blastland, 2021

The Probiotic Planet, Jamie Lorimer, 2020

Medicine: The Age of Diagnosis, Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan, 2025

Metabolical, The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL, 2021

Over-diagnosed, Making People Sick in Pursuit of Health, H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., 2012

Diet: Eat Plants Feel Whole, George E. Guthrie MD, 2021

The Starch Solution, John A. McDougall, MD, et. al., 2016

Health: The Gut Solution: Unleashing the Power of Your Microbiome, Zazabor Guru, 2025 

The Gut-Immune Connection, Emeran Mayer, 2021

You Are the Placebo, Making Your Mind Matter, Dr. Joe Dispenza, 2016

Political: Sickening, How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare, 2024; Overdosed America, The Brocken Promise of American Medicine, 2022, John Abramson

Environment: They Poisoned the World, Life and Death in the age or Forever Chemicals, Mariah Blake, 2025

Great Courses Audio:

The Power of Mind Over Body, Jo Marchant, 2023

Documentries to Stream:

The Magic Forest of Spain, 2019

Germany's Wild Amazon, 2017

Summer

Technology:  The Extinction of Experience, Being Human in a Disembodied World, Christine Rosen, 2024 

AI Snake Oil, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, 2024

Opinion:  Capitalism and Inequality, Arlo Holders, 2025

Economics: Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, Brook Harrington, 2024 

Restarting the Future, How to Fix the Intangible Economy, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, 2020

Environment:  Made to Break, Technology and Obsolescence in America, Giles Spade, 2013

Sustainable Minimalism, Stephanie Marie Seferian, 2021

Great Courses Audio Lectures:

Propaganda and Persuasion, Dannagal G. Young, 2023

Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy, Tera Susman-Peña, Mehri Druckman, and Nina Oduro, 2020

Spring

Health: Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain: The Five Pillars of Enhancing Your Gut and Optimizing Your Cognitive Health, Partha Nandi, M. D., 2024

The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs, Sabrina Sholts, 2024

Environment: Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget, Mathis Wackernagel and Burt Beyers, 2023

Science: Plant Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence, Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence, 2023

History: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline, 2021

Great Courses Audio Lectures:

The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History, 2010

Macroeconomics Made Clear, 2023

Winter

Health Science: 10% Human - How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness, Alanna Colleen, 2020

Environment: After Meat, Karthik Sekar, 2021

Economy: Earth for All - A Survival Guide for Humanity, Sandra Dixon-Declève, et all, 2022

Science: Homo Sapiens Rediscovered, Paul Pettit, 2023

Political: Eleanor, David Michaelis, 2020

Education: Dumbing Us Down, 2002, Weapons of Mass Instruction, 2008, John Taylor Gatto

Great Courses Audio Lectures:

Epigenetics - How Environment Changes Your Biology, Dr. Charlotte Mykura, 2023

Understanding Cultural and Human Geography, Paul Robbins, 2014

2024

Autumn

Science:  The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent, 2021

Fun:  The Unseen Body, Jonathan Reisman, MD, 2021

Thought:  Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande, 2014

Diet:  The Low-Carb Fraud, T. Collin Campbell, PhD, 2014

Ideas:  Unschooled - Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom, Kerry McDonald, 2019

Environment:  Enviromedics - The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health, Jay Lemery, MD. / Paul Auerbach, MD, 2018

Political:  Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, Char Miller, 2001

Summer

Health: What is Health?, Peter Sterling, 2023

History:  Animal, Vegetable, Junk, The History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal, Mark Bittman, 2021

The Worst Hard Time, The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Timothy Egan, 2006

Science: The Tangled Tree, A Radical New History of Life, David Quammen, 2018

Wisdom of Your Cells, How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology, Bruce H. Lipton, 2006 

Fun Learning:   Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver, 2007

Nature:  The Secret Wisdom of Nature, Peter Wohlleben, 2019 

Political:  The Outpost, An Untold Story of American Valor, Jake Tapper, 2012