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September 2025
Lawless
by Leah Litman
Vera, or Faith
by Gary Shteyngart
We the People
by Jill Lepore
August 2025
The Highest Law in the Land
by Jessica Pishko
Unruly
by David Mitchell
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs
by Kerry Howley
Doppelganger
by Naomi Klein
The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once
by Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
Plagues Upon the Earth
by Kyle Harper
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
Calling the Shots
by Jennifer Reich
Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala
Showdown at Gucci Gulch
by Alan Murray
Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
The Undoing Project
by Michael Lewis
Janet Flanner’s World
by Janet Flanner
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
By Night in Chile
by Roberto Bolaño
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
by Omar El Akkad
The Question of Palestine
by Edward Said
My Promised Land
by Ari Shavit
The Demon in Democracy
by Ryszard Legutko
The Strategy of Denial
by Elbridge Colby
Israel and Civilization
by Josh Hammer
July 2025
Why Nothing Works
by Marc J. Dunkelman
Energy
by Richard Rhodes
Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Mating
by Norman Rush
Frontiers of Illusion
by Daniel Sarewitz
An Engine, Not a Camera
by Donald MacKenzie
Buckley
by Sam Tanenhaus
American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
Low Life
by Lucy Sante
John & Paul
by Ian Leslie
Essays After Eighty
by Donald Hall
Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
by C.S. Lewis
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
Proto
by Laura Spinney
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
by Paul Starr
June 2025
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
Mao's Last Revolution
by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals
Master of the Game
by Martin Indyk
The Man Who Ran Washington
by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
Team of Rivals
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
These Truths
by Jill Lepore
The Final Days
by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
The Gates of Gaza
by Amir Tibon
Thomas Jefferson
by Jon Meacham
All or Nothing
by Michael Wolff
Wait Till Next Year
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A World Safe for Commerce
by Dale Copeland
May 2025
A Place of Greater Safety
by Hilary Mantel
Spent
by Alison Bechdel
A Distant Mirror
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Nixonland
by Rick Perlstein
Gretel and the Great War
by Adam Sachs
Our Dollar, Your Problem
by Ken Rogoff
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Shy
by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
Lorne
by Susan Morrison
Hitler’s People
by Richard Evans
The Holy Roller
by Andy Samberg, Joe Trohman and Rick Remender
How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
by Astra Taylor
Political Liberalism
by John Rawls
Eichmann in Jerusalem
by Hannah Arendt
A World After Liberalism
by Matthew Rose
Melting Point
by Rachel Cockerell
The Constitutional Bind
by Aziz Rana
Democracy and Education
by John Dewey
Unwired
by Gaia Bernstein
Blueprint for Revolution
by Srdja Popovic
The Wheelwright’s Shop
by George Sturt
Experiences in Visual Thinking
by Robert H. McKim
Muppets in Moscow
by Natasha Lance Rogoff
The Queen’s Gambit
by Walter Tevis
Benjamin Franklin
by Walter Isaacson
April 2025
The Promise of Politics
by Hannah Arendt
The Populist Moment
by Lawrence Goodwyn
Listen, Liberal
by Thomas Frank
Destructive Creation
by Mark R. Wilson
Bad Samaritans
by Ha-Joon Chang
The Defining Moment
by Jonathan Alter
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
by Stephen Barr
After
by Bruce Greyson
Mind and Cosmos
by Thomas Nagel
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
by Elizabeth Hinton
Troubled Memory
by Lawrence N. Powell
The Burning
by Tim Madigan
Breaking Twitter
by Ben Mezrich
Erasing History
by Jason Stanley
Underground Empire
by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
Chokepoints
by Edward Fishman
Smart Money
by Brunello Rosa and Casey Larsen
The Catalyst
by Thomas R. Cech
Kaput
by Wolfgang Münchau
The Price of Peace
by Zachary D. Carter
How Not to Invest
by Barry Ritholtz
War and Power
by Phillips Payson O’Brien
The Stoic Challenge
by William B. Irvine
Deep Work
by Cal Newport
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
March 2025
Stalin’s War
by Sean McMeekin
Back from the Brink
by Peter Moskos
Power And Responsibility
by Romano Guardini
The Hollow Parties
by Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
by John R. Zaller
The Victory Lab
by Sasha Issenberg
National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade
by Albert Hirschman
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
by John Maynard Keynes
Debt
by David Graeber
How to Think Like an Anthropologist
by Matthew Engelke
The Undoing Project
by Michael Lewis
Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L. Heilbroner
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas Kuhn
Rise of the Machines
by Thomas Rid
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
by George Saunders
The Jungle Grows Back
by Robert Kagan
Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger
The Wise Men
by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
February 2025
Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers
by Andrey Mir
Why Most Things Fail
by Paul Ormerod
Not Born Yesterday
by Hugo Mercier
Radical Markets
by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
What Hath God Wrought
by Daniel Walker Howe
A Survivor’s Education
by Joy Neumeyer
The Rebel
by Albert Camus
Race and Reunion
by David W. Blight
North Woods
by Daniel Mason
On Tyranny
by Timothy Snyder
Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks
The Rhetorical Presidency
by Jeffrey K. Tulis
Why Congress
by Philip Wallach
The Extinction of Experience
by Christine Rosen
January 2025
Regime Change
by Patrick Deneen
Between Two Fires
by Stephen Pyne
The Fifth Risk
by Michael Lewis
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
by Jonathan Blitzer
Left Adrift
by Timothy Shenk
Why Nothing Works
by Marc J. Dunkelman
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell
Rejection
by Tony Tulathimutte
Science, the Endless Frontier
by Vannevar Bush
Nexus
by Yuval Noah Harari
The Situation Room
by George Stephanopoulos
Dictators at War and Peace
by Jessica L. P. Weeks
Autocracy Rising
by Javier Corrales
The Trumpiad
by Cody Walker
The Uncontrollability of the World
by Hartmut Rosa
Fully Alive
by Elizabeth Oldfield
Death
by Joan Tollifson
December 2024
Fooled by Randomness
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What If We Get It Right?
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Romney
by McKay Coppins
Creating the Administrative Constitution
by Jerry L. Mashaw
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy
by Daniel Carpenter
Lincoln at Gettysburg
by Garry Wills
The Lost
by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Noise of Time
by Julian Barnes
November 2024
The Tyranny of Merit
by Michael J. Sandel
Leaders Eat Last
by Simon Sinek
Don’t Get above Your Raisin’
by Bill C. Malone
Why Nothing Works
by Marc Dunkelman
The Unaccountability Machine
by Dan Davies
Moneyland
by Oliver Bullough
Offshore
by Brooke Harrington
American Kleptocracy
by Casey Michel
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
by John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira
Tyranny, Inc.
by Sohrab Ahmari
Mother Jones
by Elliot J. Gorn
Steadfast Democrats
by Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird
The Real Majority
by Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg
The New Americans
by Michael Barone
I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going to Anyway)
by Chelsea Devantez
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
by Tim Alberta
Underground Asia
by Tim Harper
The Known Citizen
by Sarah E. Igo
October 2024
The Constitution of Liberty
by Friedrich Hayek
The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich Hayek
Kamala’s Way
by Dan Morain
Romney
by McKay Coppins
American Carnage
by Tim Alberta
Thinking About Crime
by James Q. Wilson
Against Excess
by Mark Kleiman
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
Justice for Some
by Noura Erakat
Our American Israel
by Amy Kaplan
The Unspoken Alliance
by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
Our Man
by George Packer
See Under
by David Grossman
Collected Poems
by Rita Dove
How the World Became Rich
by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin
The Goodness Paradox
by Richard Wrangham
The Ladies’ Paradise
by Émile Zola
September 2024
Primal Screams
by Mary Eberstadt
The Devil’s Chessboard
by David Talbot
The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
Morning and Evening
by Jon Fosse
The Future Is History
by Masha Gessen
Mr. Churchill in the White House
by Robert Schmuhl
Hope Against Hope
by Nadezhda Mandelstam
These Truths
by Jill Lepore
Cosmopolitanism
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Director
by Daniel Kehlmann
The Rebel’s Clinic
by Adam Shatz
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
String Theory
by David Foster Wallace
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
In Ascension
by Martin MacInnes
When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamin Labatut
August 2024
The Truths We Hold
by Kamala Harris
How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Black Pill
by Elle Reeve
What Are Children For?
by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Justice, Gender, and the Family
by Susan Moller Okin
Cultural Backlash
by Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
by Daniel Ziblatt
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
by John Coates
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
Addiction by Design
by Natasha Dow Schüll
The Island of the Day Before
by Umberto Eco
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
The Age of Wonder
by Richard Holmes
Walk, Ride, Paddle
by Tim Kaine
The Amen Effect
by Sharon Brous
Wounded Knee
by Heather Cox Richardson
The Most Secret Memory of Men
by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Command and Control
by Eric Schlosser
The Razor’s Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
July 2024
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Burn Book
by Kara Swisher
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The Reasoning Voter
by Samuel L. Popkin
Finding Freedom
by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
Tired of Winning
by Jonathan Karl
Kingdom of Rage
by Elizabeth Neumann
Romney
by McKay Coppins
The Path to Power
by Robert Caro
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
The Green Ember
by S.D. Smith
Into the Bright Sunshine
by Samuel G. Freedman
Wide Awake
by Jon Grinspan
Illiberal America
by Steven Hahn
Southerners
by Marshall Frady
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
The Company She Keeps
by Mary McCarthy
All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren
The Making of the President 1960
by Theodore H. White
Quiet Revolution
by Byron E. Shafer
June 2024
The Hollow Parties
by Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld
Take Back the Game
by Linda Flanagan
1177 B.C.
by Eric H. Cline
The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941
by Paul Dickson
What Goes Without Saying
by Taylor N. Carlson and Jaime E. Settle
Through the Grapevine
by Taylor N. Carlson
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come
by Jessica Pan
The Years of Lyndon Johnson Series
by Robert A. Caro
The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
The Object of Zionism
by Zvi Efrat
The News from Waterloo
by Brian Cathcart
Franchise
by Marcia Chatelain
A Place of Greater Safety
by Hilary Mantel
Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Two Faces of American Freedom
by Aziz Rana
Rainbow’s End
by Steven P. Erie
An American Melodrama
by Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, Bruce Page
May 2024
Addiction by Design
by Natasha Dow Schüll
Objectivity
by Lorraine Daston and Peter L. Galison
The Confidence-Man
by Herman Melville
Intelligence and Spirit
by Reza Negarestani
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Plurality
by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and ⿻ Community
Why Information Grows
by Cesar Hidalgo
The Expanse series
by James S.A. Corey
The American Dream Is Not Dead
by Michael R. Strain
Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
by Antony Anghie
Justice for Some
by Noura Erakat
Worldmaking After Empire
by Adom Getachew
The Constitutional Bind
by Aziz Rana
The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
by Ardi Imseis
Drugs and Drug Policy
by Mark A.R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins and Angela Hawken
Dopamine Nation
by Anna Lembke
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
Truman
by David McCullough
Parting the Waters
by Taylor Branch
Rosalind Franklin
by Brenda Maddox
April 2024
Factfulness
by Hans Rosling
Possible
by Chris Goodall
Range
by David Epstein
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
The Castle
by Franz Kafka
Interviews with Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester
Faux Pas
by Amy Sillman
The Sketchbooks Revealed
by Richard Diebenkorn
Don’t Blame Us
by Lily Geismer
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
by Adam Rome
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
by George Saunders
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Conquest of Cool
by Thomas Frank
Liar in a Crowded Theater
by Jeff Kosseff
Substance
by Peter Hook
Everything I Need I Get From You
by Kaitlyn Tiffany
Extremely Hardcore
by Zoe Schiffer
Beyond Measure
by James Vincent
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
by Robert J. Gordon
The Knowledge
by Lewis Dartnell
Blindsight
by Peter Watts
March 2024
What Hath God Wrought?
by Daniel Walker Howe
After Nationalism
by Samuel Goldman
The Politics of Cultural Despair
by Fritz R. Stern
Competing Devotions
by Mary Blair-Loy
Mothering While Black
by Dawn Marie Dow
Hope in the Dark
by Rebecca Solnit
Extra Life
by Steven Johnson
The Bet
by Paul Sabin
Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century
by John A. Farrell
A Nation Without Borders
by Steven Hahn
The Field of Blood
by Joanne B. Freeman
The Family Roe
by Joshua Prager
Tiny You
by Jennifer L. Holland
Defenders of the Unborn
by Daniel K. Williams
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
by John Foxe
The Vision of Piers Plowman
by William Langland
The World That Wasn’t
by Benn Steil
Sparks
by Ian Johnson
Diplomats at War
by Charles Trueheart
February 2024
All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren
The Making of the President 1960
by Theodore H. White
Quiet Revolution
by Byron E. Shafer
The Lincoln Miracle
by Edward Achorn
Why Nations Fail
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
The Arabs
by Eugene Rogan
On The Trails of Mariam
by Nadia Harhash
Far From the Tree
by Andrew Solomon
We All Want Impossible Things
by Catherine Newman
Thy Neighbor’s Wife
by Gay Talese
Visions of Inequality
by Branko Milanovic
The House of Government
by Yuri Slezkine
January 2024
A New Deal for the World
by Elizabeth Borgwardt
On Tyranny
by Timothy Snyder
The Collector
by Daniel Silva
The Little Drummer Girl
by John Le Carré
The Splendid and the Vile
by Erik Larson
I’m Your Man
by Sylvie Simmons
Subtract
by Leidy Klotz
Party of the People
by Patrick Ruffini
Welcome to the O.C.
by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Alan Sepinwall
Operation Pedestal
by Max Hastings
Into the Heart of Romans
by N. T. Wright
Manhunt
by James L. Swanson
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
by Lawrence Weschler
The Mushroom at the End of the World
by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
December 2023
The India Trilogy
by V.S. Naipaul
India in Asian Geopolitics
by Shivshankar Menon
Dreamers
by Snigdha Poonam
The Back Channel
by William J. Burns
Master of the Game
by Martin Indyk
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
by Rashid Khalidi
Returning to Haifa
by Ghassan Kanafani
Electrifying America
by David E. Nye
Your Face Belongs to Us
by Kashmir Hill
Import AI
by Jack Clark.
AI Snake Oil
by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
Pragmatic Engineer
by Gergely Orosz
November 2023
The Peace Puzzle
by Daniel C. Kurtzer, Scott B. Lasensky, William B. Quandt, Steven L. Spiegel and Shibley Telhami
Arabs and Israelis
by Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman and Khalil Shikaki
The Missing Peace
by Dennis Ross
The Prophets
by Abraham J. Heschel
To Bless the Space Between Us
by John O’Donohue
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Tyranny, Inc.
by Sohrab Ahmari
Crashed
by Adam Tooze
A Tale of Love and Darkness
by Amos Oz
Who By Fire
by Matti Friedman
The War of Return
by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
Hamas Contained
by Tareq Baconi
The Only Language They Understand
by Nathan Thrall
East West Street
by Philippe Sands
Orientalism
by Edward Said
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Arabs and Israelis
by Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman and Khalil Shikaki
A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Mark Tessler
October 2023
A High Price
by Daniel Byman
The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 – 2006
by Edward W. Said
The Accidental Empire
by Gershom Gorenberg
The Last Politician
by Franklin Foer
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
The Plot
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
by Rashid Khalidi
Israel’s Secret Wars
by Ian Black
The Question of Palestine
by Edward W. Said
Strangers in the House
by Raja Shehadeh
Hamas Contained
by Tareq Baconi
The Myth of the Wrong Body
by Miquel Misse
Conundrum
by Jan Morris
Who’s Afraid of Gender
by Judith Butler
Radicals for Capitalism
by Brian Doherty
The Ethics of Authenticity
by Charles Taylor
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
September 2023
Pax
by Tom Holland
The Shadow Docket
by Stephen Vladeck
The Enchanters
by James Ellroy
Living Resistance
by Kaitlin B. Curtice
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers
by Lisa Damour
The Fifth Season
by N.K. Jemisin
The Promise of Access
by Daniel Greene
Flamer
by Mike Curato
How Beautiful We Were
by Imbolo Mbue
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Troubled Waters
by Mary Annaïse Heglar
August 2023
Lessons from the Covid War
by Covid Crisis Group
Open
by Andre Agassi
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
The Prize
by Daniel Yergin
Silent Spring Revolution
by Douglas Brinkley
The Avoidable War
by Kevin Rudd
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
by Bill Gates
Wise Blood
by Flannery O’Connor
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
The Right
by Matthew Continetti
The War on the West
by Douglas Murray
The Mandibles
by Lionel Shriver
Running the Light
by Sam Tallent
The Narrow Corridor
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Power and Progress
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
July 2023
Landings
by Arwen Donahue
Raising Lazarus
by Beth Macy
Pod
by Laline Paull
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
by Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Strangers to Ourselves
by Rachel Aviv
Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
The Swerve
by Stephen Greenblatt
Trust
by Hernan Diaz
The Fabric of Reality
by David Deutsch
Permutation City
by Greg Egan
Consider Phlebas
by Iain M. Banks
The Ends of the World
by Peter Brannen
Climate Shock
by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
Shorting the Grid
by Meredith Angwin
June 2023
Chagall
by Jackie Wullschlager
Invisible China
by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell
Classified
by David Bernstein
Love’s Work
by Gillian Rose
Summertime
by Danielle Celermajer
Lighthead
by Terrance Hayes
When Affirmative Action Was White
by Ira Katznelson
Racial Conflict and Economic Development
by W. Arthur Lewis
Postcolonial Love Poem
by Natalie Diaz
The UFO Experience
by J. Allen Hynek
The UFO Evidence
by Richard H. Hall
American Cosmic
by D.W. Pasulka
How to Break Up with Your Phone
by Catherine Price
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
by Ulysses Grant
An Hour Before Daylight
by Jimmy Carter
All the Best, George Bush
by George H.W. Bush
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
by David Graeber
The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. LeGuin
Gender and the Politics of History
by Joan Wallach Scott
Implementation
by Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky
Radical Help
by Hilary Cottam
Imagined Communities
by Benedict Anderson
Wealth and Power
by Orville Schell and John Delury
The Idea of India
by Sunil Khilnani
May 2023
Why Europe?
by Michael Mitterauer
Guns, Germs, and Steel
by Jared Diamond
The Chosen Few
by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis
by Nancy McWilliams
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
by George Saunders
The Problem With Everything
by Meghan Daum
What’s Our Problem?
by Tim Urban
Nine Ladies
by Heather Moll
Range
by David Epstein
Kindly Inquisitors
by Jonathan Rauch
Let Them In
by Jason L. Riley
God, Human, Animal, Machine
by Meghan O’Gieblyn
Psychonauts
by Mike Jay
April 2023
And the Band Played On
by Randy Shilts
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
Last Call
by Daniel Okrent
What Then Must We Do?
by Leo Tolstoy
Race for Profit
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Random Family
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Black Paper
by Teju Cole
On the Inconvenience of Other People
by Lauren Berlant
The Hare
by Melanie Finn
The Darkened Light of Faith
by Melvin L. Rogers
Life 3.0
by Max Tegmark
Open Democracy
by Héléne Landemore
Data Driven
by Karen Levy
The Master Switch
by Tim Wu
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
Trance Frendz
by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm
Nexus
by Jonathan Reed Winkler
Prestige, Manipulation and Coercion
by Joseph Torigian
March 2023
We the Fallen People
by Robert Tracy McKenzie
The Napoleonic Wars
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Ring of Steel
by Alexander Watson
Flash Boys
by Michael Lewis
The Idea Factory
by Jon Gertner
The Fed Unbound
by Lev Menand
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
The Silmarillion
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Chip War
by Chris Miller
How Asia Works
by Joe Studwell
The Invisible Bridge
by Rick Perlstein
The Jesuits
by Markus Friedrich
Last and First Men
by Olaf Stapledon
Disturbing the Universe
by Freeman Dyson
Career and Family
by Claudia Goldin
The Life of Dad
by Anna Machin
Homintern
by Gregory Woods
Caliban and the Witch
by Silvia Federici
Can the Monster Speak?
by Paul B. Preciado
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Less Than One
by Joseph Brodsky
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
February 2023
Burn
by Herman Pontzer
Salt Sugar Fat
by Michael Moss
The Secret of Our Success
by Joseph Henrich
Soldier of the Mist
by Gene Wolf
After Atlas
by Emma Newman
Babel
by R. F. Kuang
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel van der Kolk
Pain
by Patrick Wall
Slouching Towards Utopia
by J. Bradford DeLong
How the War Was Won
by Phillips Payson O’Brien
Ninth House
by Leigh Bardugo
Here Comes Everybody
by Clay Shirky
The Profiteers
by Sally Denton
Forever Changes
by Love
The Beatles
by The Beatles
Ramones
by Ramones
Public Citizens
by Paul Sabin
The Fifth Risk
by Michael Lewis
Babel
by R.F. Kuang
January 2023
Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts
by Jeremy L. Wallace
Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
See No Stranger
by Valarie Kaur
From The Soil
by Fei Xiaotong
Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China
by R. David Arkush
The Fractalist
by Benoit Mandelbrot
Fit Nation
by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Dreamland
by Carly Goodman
Freedom’s Dominion
by Jefferson Cowie
Where Do We Go From Here
by Martin Luther King Jr.
The Trumpet of Conscience
by Martin Luther King Jr.
The Sword and the Shield
by Peniel E. Joseph
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
by Jeanne Theoharis
Dark Ghettos
by Tommie Shelby
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty
Crashed
by Adam Tooze
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The Ethical Slut
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The Language Instinct
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When We Cease to Understand the World
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The Age of A.I.
by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher
Invisible Women
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Bad Blood
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The World For Sale
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Fragmented Democracy
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Private Government
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The Demon in Democracy
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The Face of God
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Meatonomics
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Animal Machines
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The Gilead Novels
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World and Town
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Standing by Words
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Love’s Mind
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Middlemarch
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New York 2140
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Orwell’s Roses
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How It Went
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
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The Storm Is Here
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Sugar Street
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Marlena
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
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Free Market
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Adam Smith’s America
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Spin Dictators
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Rock Me on the Water
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Slouching Towards Utopia
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Slouching Towards Utopia
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Algorithmic Game Theory
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Empire and Revolution
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Scene of Change
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A Widening Sphere
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Envy Up, Scorn Down
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The Psychology of Social Status
by Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, Cameron Anderson
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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Staring
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H is for Hawk
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A Fortune for Your Disaster
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Breaking the Thermometer
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Carry Me Home
by Mavis Staples and Levon Helm
The Weight of Glory
by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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The Resurrection of the Son of God
by N.T. Wright
The Gilead Novels
by Marilynne Robinson
In the Age of the Smart Machine
by Shoshana Zuboff
The Myth of the Paperless Office
by Abigail J. Sellen and Richard H. R. Harper
Liquidated
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Essential Labor
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Beloved
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Ficciones
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Histories of the Transgender Child
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Brilliant Imperfection
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Asegi Stories
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Public Opinion
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Mediated
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Nobody’s Normal
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American Psychosis
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Crazy
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Crabgrass Frontier
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by Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick and Maxwell Palmer
A Brief History of Equality
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The Dawn of Everything
by David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Echo Maker
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No More Nice Girls
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Status and Culture
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by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath
The Second Creation
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by Benjamín Labatut
The Turnaway Study
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Law and Disagreement
by Jeremy Waldron
Cult of the Constitution
by Mary Anne Franks
Hope in the Dark
by Rebecca Solnit
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
by Eric Foner
Salmon P. Chase
by Walter Stahr
What It Took to Win
by Michael Kazin
In Shock
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Every Deep-Drawn Breath
by Wes Ely
Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
All That She Carried
by Tiya Miles
Beautiful Country
by Qian Julie Wang
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
by Gary Gerstle
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
The Invention of Nature
by Andrea Wulf
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by Sally Rooney
Socialism: Past and Future
by Michael Harrington
The Age of Extremes
by Eric Hobsbawm
The South
by Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
The Great Demarcation
by Rafe Blaufarb
The Emergence of Globalism
by Or Rosenboim
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
Classified
by David E. Bernstein
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by Rafael A. Mangual
Sir Vidia’s Shadow
by Paul Theroux
The Strategy of Denial
by Elbridge A. Colby
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Rights Talk
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Feminism Without Illusions
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Public Man, Private Woman
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
Stones
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Frank: Sonnets
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Beyond Roe
by David Boonin
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by Michael Tooley, Celia Wolf-Devine, Philip E. Devine and Alison M. Jaggar
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
The New Class War
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by Tom Holland
The Art of Loading Brush
by Wendell Berry
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by Mary Childs
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by Dave Addey
The Surprise of Cremona
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Free
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by Mark Leonard
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by Georgi Gospodinov
Scary Monsters
by Michelle de Kretser
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by Dan Chaon
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
A Theory of System Justification
by John T. Jost
Memorial
by Bryan Washington
These Precious Days
by Ann Patchett
The Course
by Ed Miller
The Precipice
by Toby Ord
The Climate War
by Eric Pooley
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
The Power Broker
by Robert A. Caro
The Tombs of Atuan
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Persuasive Games
by Ian Bogost
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by Vladislav M. Zubok
The Perfect Fascist
by Victoria de Grazia
My Century
by Aleksander Wat
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The Best and The Brightest
by David Halberstam
The Price of Peace
by Zachary D. Carter
Slouching Towards Utopia
by J. Bradford DeLong
War
by Margaret MacMillan
Biased
by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Secrets of the Sprakkar
by Eliza Reid
Charlotte’s Web
by E. B. White
Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Putin’s World
by Angela Stent
The Power of Law
by Sebastian Mallaby
The Cloud Revolution
by Mark P. Mills
The Economic Weapon
by Nicholas Mulder
Not One Inch
by M.E. Sarotte
The Sleepwalkers
by Christopher Clark
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
by Peter Pomerantsev
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
The Gates of Europe
by Serhii Plokhy
The Last Empire
by Serhii Plokhy
Manual for Survival
by Kate Brown
Babi Yar
by Anatoly Kuznetsov
Bloodlands
by Timothy Snyder
Not One Inch
by M.E. Sarotte
The Limits of Partnership
by Angela Stent
Putin’s World
by Angela Stent
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by Richard Pipes
The Formation of the Soviet Union
by Richard Pipes
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
by Kenneth N. Waltz
A World Safe for Democracy
by G. John Ikenberry
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by George F. Kennan
The Economic Weapon
by Nicholas Mulder
The End of the End of History
by Alex Hochuli, George Hoare and Philip Cunliffe
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by Eswar S. Prasad
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The Anarchy
by William Dalrymple
India: A Story Through 100 Objects
by Vidya Dehejia
The Splendid and the Vile
by Erik Larson
Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect
by Magda Gerber
Siblings Without Rivalry
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The Hurried Child
by David Elkind
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by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
The Anatomy of a Moment
by Javier Cercas
Visitors
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The Apology
by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
The Myth of the Rational Voter
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The Weirdest People in the World
by Joseph Henrich
Who We Are and How We Got Here
by David Reich
Rights Talk
by Mary Ann Glendon
Law and Disagreement
by Jeremy Waldron
Cult of the Constitution
by Mary Anne Franks
The Heart Principle
by Helen Hoang
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by Xochitl Gonzalez
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by Danielle Friedman
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by Jorge Luis Borges
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The Gatekeepers
by Chris Whipple
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
by Irvin D. Yalom and Molyn Leszcz
Chaos
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by George Saunders
The Three-Body Problem Series
by Cixin Liu
The Racial Contract
by Charles W. Mills
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by Alexis de Tocqueville
Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot
The Sum of Us
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Caste
by Isabel Wilkerson
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Enlightenment Now
by Steven Pinker
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by Robert Jervis
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The Truly Disadvantaged
by William Julius Wilson
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Lost in Work
by Amelia Horgan
Farewell to the Factory
by Ruth Milkman
Confessions of the Fox
by Jordy Rosenberg
Fortress America
by Elaine Tyler May
Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
Tiny You
by Jennifer Holland
The Boys on the Bus
by Timothy Crouse
Making News
by Gaye Tuchman
Deciding What’s News
by Herbert Gans
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by Imani Perry
Shoutin' in the Fire
by Danté Stewart
Abolition for the People
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The Color of Money
by Mehrsa Baradaran
A Pound of Flesh
by Alexes Harris
The Sum of Us
by Heather McGhee
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by Hergé
The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
The Gnostic Religion
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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
by W.N.P. Barbellion
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All That She Carried
by Tiya Miles
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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by Tressie McMillan Cottom
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by Michael J. Klarman
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
by Woody Holton
A Midwife’s Tale
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The Negro in the American Revolution
by Benjamin Quarles
Rebecca’s Revival
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The Company
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
My Life in Full
by Indra Nooyi
Palace Walk
by Naguib Mahfouz
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by Wendell Berry
Wanderlust
by Rebecca Solnit
Girls and Sex
by Peggy Orenstein
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Possibilities
by David Graeber
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
by Saidiya Hartman
The Force of Nonviolence
by Judith Butler
Due Diligence
by David Roodman
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers
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The Precipice
by Toby Ord
Healthy At Last
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by Joe Dispenza
You Are The Placebo
by Joe Dispenza
Upstream
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by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Ever Green
by John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy
The Fall of Berlin 1945
by Anthony Beevor
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The Grace of Kings
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by Laura Biggs
Killing for Life
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The Deficit Myth
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Essays in Persuasion
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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire
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The Buddha in the Attic
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When the Emperor Was Divine
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Mad As Hell
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The Great Stagnation
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Stubborn Attachments
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by Charles I. Jones and Peter J. Klenow
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith
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Feminist International
by Verónica Gago, translated by Liz Mason-Deese
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The End of the Myth
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Difference without Domination
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Happy Birthday to You!
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The Best and the Brightest
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The Hell of Good Intentions
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
The Apology
by V
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by Deborah Blum
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
Reconstruction
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by W. E. B. Du Bois
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The City We Became
by N. K. Jemisin
American War
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The Jakarta Method
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The New Gods
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by Evan Narcisse and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wired for Culture
by Mark Pagel
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers
by Michele Gelfand
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Tools for Conviviality
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The Human Condition
by Hannah Arendt
Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life
by Albert Borgmann
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by W.E.B Du Bois
The Warmth of Other Suns
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by Laurent Dubois
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by Fred Anderson
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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
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Golden Gates
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The Dispossessed
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Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
Supersizing the Mind
by Andy Clark
Mind in Motion
by Barbara Tversky
Thoughts Without a Thinker
by Mark Epstein
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
by Jonathan M. Metzl
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by Heather McGhee
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Outermost House
by Henry Beston
The Old Way
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
King Solomon's Ring
by Konrad Lorenz
Chlorine Sky
by Mahogany L. Browne
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
by Reuben Jonathan Miller
Severance
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A Temple of Texts
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The MacGuffin
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Entangled Life
by Merlin Sheldrake
Other Minds
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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by John le Carré
Race and Reunion
by David Blight
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by Eyal Press
Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University
by Matt Brim
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
by Martha S. Jones
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
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by Claudia Goldin
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The Last Question
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The Gentle Seduction
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Meditations on Moloch
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Halfway Home
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Poorly Understood
by Mark Rank, Lawrence Eppard, and Heather Bullock
What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots
by Julie Shah and Laura Major
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by James P. Carse
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by Jenny Odell
The Overstory
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by Natasha Tretheway
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Becoming Ms. Burton
by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn
The Condemnation of Blackness
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
by Kathleen Belew
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the Twentieth Century
by Charles King
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr. and the Debate Over Race in America
by Nicholas Buccola
Tolstoy: A Russian Life
by Rosamund Bartlett
Pessoa: A Biography
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by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Furious Hours
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Heart of Fire
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The Secret to Superhuman Strength
by Alison Bechdel
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Freedom
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The Power Broker
by Robert Caro
Conflict is Not Abuse
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The Tao is Silent
by Raymond Smullyan
The Last of the Just
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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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by Colson Whitehead
Where the Wild Things Are
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Mary Poppins in the Park
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The Children of Green Knowe
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Minor Feelings
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The Chosen
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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The Culture of Narcissism
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Can't Even
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Goodnight Moon
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A Tale of Two Utopias
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A Book of Americans
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The Moviegoer
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by Horace Freeland Judson
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On the Measure of Intelligence
by Francois Chollet
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
On Fragile Waves
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by P.G. Wodehouse
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In Love with the World
by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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by Hayden Carruth
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