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#NeverAgain by David Hogg & Lauren Hogg

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1 book

100+ by Sonia Arrison

A

15 books

A Matter of Taste by Stanley Lieberson A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler Affluenza by John de Graaf, David Wann and Thomas H. Naylor Age of Propaganda by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks All The Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister All the Truth Is Out by Matt Bai Alone Together by Sherry Turkle American Savage by Dan Savage Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal Ask For It by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever Asking for It by Kate Harding At Home by Bill Bryson

B

13 books

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay 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 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 Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown Breaking The Page by Peter Meyers Bunk by Kevin Young

C

4 books

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari Comfortably Unaware by Dr. Richard A. Oppenlander Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti Cubed by Nikil Saval

D

7 books

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 Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault Doing Justice by Preet Bharara Dreamland by Sam Quinones

E

6 books

Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges Engines of Liberty by David Cole Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates Evicted by Matthew Desmond Excellent Daughters by Katherine Zoepf Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz

F

12 books

Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Fast Forward by Melanne Verveer and Kim K. Azzarelli 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 Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig Free Will by Sam Harris From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Frontier Justice by Andy Lamey Future Crimes by Marc Goodman

G

6 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 Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister

H

9 books

Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Happy City by Charles Montgomery Headscarves and Hymens by Mona Eltahawy Heretic by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Hit Makers by Derek Thompson How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen How Music Works by David Byrne How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston How We Live Now by Bella DePaulo

I

7 books

I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi Immigrants by Philippe Legrain In the Name of Identity by Amin Maalouf 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

J

1 book

Just Babies by Paul Bloom

L

4 books

Labor of Love by Moira Weigel Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World by Jim Brumm Lying by Sam Harris

M

9 books

Magic and Loss by Virginia Heffernan Maid by Stephanie Land Make Trouble by Cecile Richards (with Lauren Peterson) Making the Modern World by Vaclav Smil Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene Most Likely to Succeed by Tony Wagner & Ted Dintersmith Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

N

5 books

Narconomics by Tom Wainwright New Power by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms Newsjacking by David Meerman Scott Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Nonzero by Robert Wright

O

2 books

Orwell’s Revenge by Peter Huber Our Kids by Robert D. Putnam

P

3 books

Political Tribes by Amy Chua Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff Progress by Johan Norberg

R

4 books

Rational Ritual by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Reading the Comments by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. Reset by Ellen Pao Risk by Dan Gardner

S

14 books

Seinfeldia by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Selfie by Will Storr Should We Eat Meat? by Vaclav Smil Simply Complexity by Neil F. Johnson Slay in Your Lane by Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson Soccermatics by David Sumpter Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski Social Physics by Alex Pentland Southern Theory by Raewyn Connell Stuffocation by James Wallman Survival of the Prettiest by Nancy Etcoff Suspicious Minds by Rob Brotherton

T

50 books

The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor The Boundaries of Desire by Eric Berkowitz The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington The Common Good by Robert B. Reich The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani The Divide by Matt Taibbi The End of the Suburbs by Leigh Gallagher The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker The Glass Closet by John Browne The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel The Grid by Gretchen Bakke The Half-Life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman The Haves and the Have-Nots by Branko Milanović The Human Swarm by Mark W. Moffett The Impulse Society by Paul Roberts The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell The Locust Effect by Gary A. Haugen and Victor Boutros The Meat Racket by Christopher Leonard The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan 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 Secret Barrister by The Secret Barrister The Sex Myth by Rachel Hills The Triple Package by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld The True Believer by Eric Hoffer The War on Journalism by Andrew Fowler The Way Back by F.H. Buckley The Will to Change by bell hooks Them by Ben Sasse Thirst by Scott Harrison This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Whitney Phillips To Stop a Warlord by Shannon Sedgwick Davis Top Secret America by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt Trust Me, I’m Lying by Ryan Holiday Txtng by David Crystal

U

4 books

Unfair by Adam Benforado Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter Unscrewed by Jaclyn Friedman Unselfie by Michele Borba

V

1 book

Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch

W

12 books

We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Weaponized Lies by Daniel J. Levitin What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo White Trash by Nancy Isenberg Who Can You Trust? by Rachel Botsman Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Why Information Grows by César Hidalgo With Charity for All by Ken Stern Wonderland by Steven Johnson

Y

2 books

You Can’t Read This Book by Nick Cohen You May Also Like by Tom Vanderbilt