Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, recommended by Kat Zagaria

An Artist, a Coyote, and a Cage: Joseph Beuys in New York 1974, Photographs by Stephen Aiken, Foreword by Brett Sokol

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, recommended by TK Smith

The Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander, recommended by Carolina Miranda

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by ​​Gloria Anzaldua, recommended by TK Smith

Women Reframe American Landscape by Susan M. Barstow, recommended by Jennifer Huberdeau 

The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger, recommended by Shana Nys Dambrot

Ways of Seeing by John Berger, recommended by Seph Rodney

Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form by Rizvana Bradley

Field Guide to Ambiguity by Hannah Burr, recommended by Sarah “Rosie” Sharp

Wrong Is Not My Name by Erica Cardwell, recommended by Raquel Gutiérrez

Miami Contemporary Artists by Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, recommended by Elisa Turner

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, recommended by Holland Cotter

Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in America's Communities by Erika Doss, recommended by Jeff Huebner

Imperfect Solidarities by Aruna D’Souza

John Berger: Selected Essays by Geoffrey Dyer, recommended by Jeff Huebner

Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller Easterling, recommended by Zachary Small

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, recommended by Megan Gray

What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with art critics by Jarrett Earnest, recommended by Cassie Packard

Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba by Coco Fusco

The Reenchantment of Art by Suzi Gablik, recommended by Jeff Huebner

Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left by Malik Gaines, recommended by Daria S. Harper

Anita de Monta Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez, recommended by Jennifer Huberdeau

Extremities by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, recommended by Jason Farago

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch, recommended by Jim Higgins

Air Guitar by Dave Hickey, recommended by Jorge Arango

Art on my Mind by bell hooks, recommended by Camille Bacon

Nothing if not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists, The Essays of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes, recommended by Jorge Arango

The Geometries of Afro Asia, Art beyond Solidarity by Joan Kee, recommended by Sharon Mizota

The Uncanny by Mike Kelley, recommended by Deborah Irmas

The Isolation Artist by Bob Keyes, recommended by Megan Gray

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, recommended by Lori Waxman

Mining For Gold, Selected Writings (1979-1996) by Thomas Lawson

Overlay by Lucy Lippard, recommended by Jeff Huebner

Mixed Blessings by Lucy Lippard, recommended by Jeff Huebner

Art of Penobscot Bay by Carl and David Little, recommended by Bob Keyes

Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader, by Esther McCoy, edited by Susan Morgan (East of Borneo Books), recommended by Thomas Lawson

Knowing Native Arts by Nancy Marie Mithlo, recommended by Stacy Pratt

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution by MIT Press, recommended by Jori Finkel

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, recommended by Lori Waxman

Zen Psychosis by Shana Nys Dambrot

I Just Keep Talking by Nell Irving Painter, recommended by Robin Givhan

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Ian Penman, recommended by Joe Fyfe

Seeing Like an Artist: What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others by Lincoln Perry, recommended by Carl Little

Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now by Phaidon, with an introduction by Raphael Fonseca, recommended by Ray Mark Rinaldi

Culture Strike by Laura Raicovich, recommended by Cara Ober

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld, recommended by Emily Watlington

The Miraculous by Raphael Rubinstein, recommended by Lori Waxman 

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 by Peter Schjeldahl, recommended by Sarah Hotchkiss

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe, recommended by Siddhartha Mitter

Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee

Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag, recommended by Mary Louise Schumacher

On Photography by Susan Sontag, recommended by Hrag Vartanian

Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy (The History of Media and Communication) by Margot Susca

Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America by Greg Tate, recommended by Robin Givhan

7 Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton, recommended by Edgar Beem

Flash of the Spirit by Robert Farris Thompson, recommended by Kristina Kay Robinson

This Is Not It: Stories by Lynn Tillman, recommended by Lori Waxman

The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories (Semiotext(e) by Lynne Tillman, recommended by Cassie Packard

Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt, recommended by Greg Allen

Turn: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt, recommended by Greg Allen

Prospect: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt, recommended by Greg Allen

Yield: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt, recommended by Greg Allen

Notes From the Woodshed by Jack Whitten, recommended by Erin Jane Nelson

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson, recommended by Lori Waxman

Please Wait by the Coatroom by John Yau, recommended by Carl Little