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#NeverAgain
by David Hogg & Lauren Hogg
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1 book
100+
by Sonia Arrison
2
2 books
2030
by Mauro F. Guillén
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
A
32 books
A Brief History of Motion
by Tom Standage
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
A Matter of Taste
by Stanley Lieberson
A Million Years In A Day
by Greg Jenner
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
AI 2041
by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
Abortion and the Law in America
by Mary Ziegler
Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Across That Bridge
by John Lewis
Adrift
by Scott Galloway
Affluenza
by John de Graaf, David Wann and Thomas H. Naylor
Afropean
by Johny Pitts
Against Creativity
by Oli Mould
Age of Anger
by Pankaj Mishra
Age of Propaganda
by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson
Ain’t I a Woman
by bell hooks
All About Love
by bell hooks
All The Single Ladies
by Rebecca Traister
All the Truth Is Out
by Matt Bai
Alone Together
by Sherry Turkle
American Crisis
by Andrew M. Cuomo
American Savage
by Dan Savage
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
An American Sickness
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Apollo’s Arrow
by Nicholas A. Christakis
Arabs
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Ask For It
by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Asking for It
by Kate Harding
At Home
by Bill Bryson
B
22 books
Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay
Bedtime Biography: An Autobiography
by M.K. Gandhi
Bedtime Biography: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Bedtime Biography: Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
Bedtime Biography: Stasiland
by Anna Funder
Bedtime Biography: Vindication
by Lyndall Gordon
Begin Again
by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo
Better Living Through Criticism
by A.O. Scott
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Beyond Culture
by Edward Hall
Beyond the Wand
by Tom Felton
Blockchain Chicken Farm
by Xiaowei Wang
Blueprint
by Nicholas A. Christakis
Blueprint for Revolution
by Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
Boy Erased
by Garrard Conley
Brave, Not Perfect
by Reshma Saujani
Breaking The Page
by Peter Meyers
Brit(ish)
by Afua Hirsch
Bullshit Jobs
by David Graeber
Bunk
by Kevin Young
C
15 books
COVID-19: The Great Reset
by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
Calling Bullshit
by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
Can't Even
by Anne Helen Petersen
Caste
by Isabel Wilkerson
Catch and Kill
by Ronan Farrow
Chasing the Scream
by Johann Hari
Cinema Speculation
by Quentin Tarantino
Collapse
by Jared Diamond
Comfortably Unaware
by Dr. Richard A. Oppenlander
Consider the Fork
by Bee Wilson
Cradle to Cradle
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Crippled
by Frances Ryan
Crowds and Power
by Elias Canetti
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
Cubed
by Nikil Saval
D
14 books
Dear America
by Graham Allen
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Madam President
by Jennifer Palmieri
Death’s Summer Coat
by Brandy Schillace
Dedicated
by Pete Davis
Deep Medicine
by Eric Topol
Design for the Real World
by Victor Papanek
Disability Visibility
by Alice Wong
Discipline & Punish
by Michel Foucault
Distinction
by Pierre Bourdieu
Doing Justice
by Preet Bharara
Dragnet Nation
by Julia Angwin
Dreamland
by Sam Quinones
Drunk
by Edward Slingerland
E
10 books
Empire of Illusion
by Chris Hedges
Empire of Pain
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Engines of Liberty
by David Cole
Enlightenment Now
by Steven Pinker
Enough
by John Naish
Everything is Obvious
by Duncan J. Watts
Evicted
by Matthew Desmond
Excellent Daughters
by Katherine Zoepf
Exodus
by Paul Collier
Extra Life
by Steven Johnson
F
19 books
Factfulness
by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Fair Play
by Eve Rodsky
Faith, Hope and Carnage
by Nick Cave, Seán O'Hagan
Fake Law
by The Secret Barrister
Fashionable Nonsense
by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
Fast Forward
by Melanne Verveer and Kim K. Azzarelli
Feeding You Lies
by Vani Hari
Feminist Fight Club
by Jessica Bennett
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
by Slavoj Žižek
Flat Earth News
by Nick Davies
Foolproof
by Greg Ip
Forget the Alamo
by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford
Four Hundred Souls
by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Free Culture
by Lawrence Lessig
Free Speech
by Jacob Mchangama
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Frontier Justice
by Andy Lamey
Future Crimes
by Marc Goodman
G
8 books
Galileo’s Middle Finger
by Alice Dreger
Ghetto
by Mitchell Duneier
Ghettoside
by Jill Leovy
Go Back to Where You Came From
by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Gods of the Upper Air
by Charles King
Going Solo
by Eric Klinenberg
Good and Mad
by Rebecca Traister
Grand Transitions
by Vaclav Smil
H
20 books
Half the Sky
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Happy City
by Charles Montgomery
Happy Fat
by Sofie Hagen
Headscarves and Hymens
by Mona Eltahawy
Heretic
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Hillbilly Elegy
by J.D. Vance
Hit Makers
by Derek Thompson
Hood Feminism
by Mikki Kendall
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
by Francis Wheen
How Music Got Free
by Stephen Witt
How Music Works
by David Byrne
How To Be Black
by Baratunde Thurston
How To Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
by Ben Shapiro
How We Live Now
by Bella DePaulo
How You Say It
by Katherine D. Kinzler
How the Word Is Passed
by Clint Smith
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell
Human Compatible
by Stuart Russell
Humankind
by Rutger Bregman
I
11 books
I Am Not Your Baby Mother
by Candice Brathwaite
I Wear the Black Hat
by Chuck Klosterman
I'm Judging You
by Luvvie Ajayi
I'm Still Here
by Austin Channing Brown
Immigrants
by Philippe Legrain
In the Name of Identity
by Amin Maalouf
Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
by Claire Smith and Graeme K. Ward
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
by Cory Doctorow
Innovating Women
by Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya
Inventing the Future
by Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams
Invisible Women
by Caroline Criado Perez
J
3 books
Just Babies
by Paul Bloom
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
Justice
by Michael J. Sandel
K
1 book
Killing the Legends
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
L
9 books
Labor of Love
by Moira Weigel
Lean In
by Sheryl Sandberg
Leisure
by Josef Pieper
Live Wire
by Kelly Ripa
Locking Up Our Own
by James Forman Jr.
Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World
by Jim Brumm
Longpath
by Ari Wallach
Losing Eden
by Lucy Jones
Lying
by Sam Harris
M
21 books
Maid
by Stephanie Land
Make Change
by Shaun King
Make Trouble
by Cecile Richards (with Lauren Peterson)
Making Sense
by Sam Harris
Making the Modern World
by Vaclav Smil
Marriage, a History
by Stephanie Coontz
Me and White Supremacy
by Layla Saad
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
by John Gray
Men Explain Things To Me
by Rebecca Solnit
Merchants of Doubt
by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
Mine!
by Michael A. Heller and James Salzman
Minor Feelings
by Cathy Park Hong
Modern Romance
by Aziz Ansari and Erik Klinenberg
Moral Tribes
by Joshua Greene
Morality
by Jonathan Sacks
Most Likely to Succeed
by Tony Wagner & Ted Dintersmith
Move Fast and Break Things
by Jonathan Taplin
Musicophilia
by Oliver Sacks
My Beloved World
by Sonia Sotomayor
My Grandmother's Hands
by Resmaa Menakem
Myanmar's Enemy Within
by Francis Wade
N
10 books
Narconomics
by Tom Wainwright
Natives
by Akala
New Power
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
Newsjacking
by David Meerman Scott
Nice Racism
by Robin DiAngelo
Nickel & Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nine Lives
by William Dalrymple
Nine Nasty Words
by John McWhorter
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
Nonzero
by Robert Wright
O
6 books
On the Run
by Alice Goffman
One Billion Americans
by Matthew Yglesias
Open
by Johan Norberg
Orientalism
by Edward W. Said
Orwell's Revenge
by Peter Huber
Our Malady
by Timothy Snyder
P
9 books
Perversion of Justice
by Julie K. Brown
Picasso's War
by Hugh Eakin
Playing the Whore
by Melissa Gira Grant
Political Tribes
by Amy Chua
Poverty Safari
by Darren McGarvey
Present Shock
by Douglas Rushkoff
Progress
by Johan Norberg
Proust and the Squid
by Maryanne Wolf
Purity and Danger
by Mary Douglas
R
8 books
Rational Ritual
by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Reading the Comments
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
Renegades
by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
Reset
by Ellen Pao
Retromania
by Simon Reynolds
Risk
by Dan Gardner
Rogues
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers
by Michele Gelfand
S
27 books
Selfie
by Will Storr
Shakespeare in a Divided America
by James Shapiro
She Said
by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
She/He/They/Me
by Robyn Ryle
Should We Eat Meat?
by Vaclav Smil
Simply Complexity
by Neil F. Johnson
Skin in the Game
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Slay in Your Lane
by Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke
Smile or Die
by Barbara Ehrenreich
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
by Jon Ronson
Soccermatics
by David Sumpter
Soccernomics
by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
Social Empathy
by Elizabeth Segal
Social Physics
by Alex Pentland
Solitary
by Albert Woodfox
Southern Theory
by Raewyn Connell
Starry Messenger
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Status Anxiety
by Alain de Botton
Stolen Focus
by Johann Hari
Stonewall
by Martin Duberman
Stuffocation
by James Wallman
Subtract
by Leidy Klotz
Superior
by Angela Saini
Survival of the Friendliest
by Brian Hare and Vanessa Wood
Survival of the Prettiest
by Nancy Etcoff
Suspicious Minds
by Rob Brotherton
T
99 books
Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier
The 1619 Project
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The 4 Day Week
by Andrew Barnes with Stephanie Jones
The Age of Empathy
by Frans de Waal
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
The Almost Nearly Perfect People
by Michael Booth
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
The Art of Gathering
by Priya Parker
The Beatles Anthology
by The Beatles
The Beauty Myth
by Naomi Wolf
The Better Angels of Our Nature
by Steven Pinker
The Black Agenda
by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
The Black Church
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Blue Sweater
by Jacqueline Novogratz
The Body Is Not an Apology
by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Boundaries of Desire
by Eric Berkowitz
The Broken Ladder
by Keith Payne
The Case Against Education
by Bryan Caplan
The Common Good
by Robert B. Reich
The Confidence Code
by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
The Daughters of Kobani
by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Dawn of Everything
by David Graeber & David Wengrow
The Death of Expertise
by Tom Nichols
The Death of Truth
by Michiko Kakutani
The End of the Suburbs
by Leigh Gallagher
The Evolution of Everything
by Matt Ridley
The Female Brain
by Louann Brizendine
The Female Eunuch
by Germaine Greer
The Four Agreements
by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills
The Gift of Fear
by Gavin de Becker
The Glass Closet
by John Browne
The Great Leveler
by Walter Scheidel
The Greater Freedom
by Alya Mooro
The Grid
by Gretchen Bakke
The Gun Debate
by Philip J. Cook and Kristin A. Goss
The Half-Life of Facts
by Samuel Arbesman
The Haves and the Have-Nots
by Branko Milanović
The Hidden Brain
by Shankar Vedantam
The Human Swarm
by Mark W. Moffett
The Impulse Society
by Paul Roberts
The Information
by James Gleick
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
by Justin E.H. Smith
The Knowledge
by Lewis Dartnell
The Laws of Human Nature
by Robert Greene
The Life You Can Save
by Peter Singer
The Locust Effect
by Gary A. Haugen and Victor Boutros
The Lonely Century
by Noreena Hertz
The Male Brain
by Louann Brizendine
The Meat Racket
by Christopher Leonard
The Moment of Lift
by Melinda Gates
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
The News
by Alain De Botton
The Next Great Migration
by Sonia Shah
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by Michael Pollan
The Optimist's Telescope
by Bina Venkataraman
The Paradox of Choice
by Barry Schwartz
The Pirate’s Dilemma
by Matt Mason
The Politics of Promotion
by Bonnie Marcus
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
The Quick Fix
by Jesse Singal
The Reality Game
by Samuel Woolley
The Reckoning
by Mary L. Trump
The Refusal of Work
by David Frayne
The Road to Character
by David Brooks
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
The Secret Barrister
by The Secret Barrister
The Soul of a Woman
by Isabel Allende
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Strange Order of Things
by Antonio Damasio
The Sum of Us
by Heather McGhee
The Triple Package
by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
The True Believer
by Eric Hoffer
The Upcycle
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
The War For Kindness
by Jamil Zaki
The War on Journalism
by Andrew Fowler
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
The Way Back
by F.H. Buckley
The Way We Eat Now
by Bee Wilson
The Witches Are Coming
by Lindy West
The World Until Yesterday
by Jared Diamond
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
Them
by Ben Sasse
Thick
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Thirst
by Scott Harrison
This Could Be Our Future
by Yancey Strickler
This Is Your Brain on Music
by Daniel Levitin
This Is Your Mind on Plants
by Michael Pollan
This Is the Fire
by Don Lemon
This Will Be My Undoing
by Morgan Jerkins
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
by Whitney Phillips
To Be A Machine
by Mark O’Connell
To Stop a Warlord
by Shannon Sedgwick Davis
Top Secret America
by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
Traffic
by Tom Vanderbilt
Trick Mirror
by Jia Tolentino
Trust First
by Bruce Deel with Sara Grace
Trust Me, I’m Lying
by Ryan Holiday
Tsunami
by James Goff and Walter Dudley
Txtng
by David Crystal
U
6 books
Unbound
by Tarana Burke
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
by Emmanuel Acho
Unfair
by Adam Benforado
Unfinished Business
by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Unscrewed
by Jaclyn Friedman
Utopia for Realists
by Rutger Bregman
V
1 book
Voodoo Histories
by David Aaronovitch
W
27 books
Wagnerism
by Alex Ross
War
by Margaret MacMillan
We Are Displaced
by Malala Yousafzai
We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Millionaires
by Rachel Rodgers
Weaponized Lies
by Daniel J. Levitin
What Truth Sounds Like
by Michael Eric Dyson
What Unites Us
by Dan Rather with Elliot Kirschner
What the Eyes Don't See
by Mona Hanna-Attisha
When They Call You a Terrorist
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo
White Trash
by Nancy Isenberg
Who Can You Trust?
by Rachel Botsman
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Why Information Grows
by César Hidalgo
Why Love Hurts
by Eva Illouz
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
by Kristen Ghodsee
Wildland
by Evan Osnos
With Charity for All
by Ken Stern
Woke, Inc.
by Vivek Ramaswamy
Women and Power
by Mary Beard
Women, Race & Class
by Angela Y. Davis
Wonderland
by Steven Johnson
Work
by James Suzman
Wuhan Diary
by Fang Fang
Y
3 books
You Are Your Best Thing
by Edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
You Can’t Read This Book
by Nick Cohen
You May Also Like
by Tom Vanderbilt
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