Agreed with more literature! More than that: as a guiding principle, read stuff by people who aren't like you. The OP's list has exactly zero female authors in

Agreed with more literature! More than that: as a guiding principle, read stuff by people who aren't like you. The OP's list has exactly zero female authors in it. It's hard to grow personally when you aren't confronting and coming to terms with radically different experiences, and yet that's what books do best: they confront you.