Spring/Summer 2022
Actual books, in between all of the other short-form online and offline distractions. The stack keeps growing, so undoubtedly this will carry over into Fall. Slowly adding some fiction back in after a long time away. Resetting for Spring/Summer 2022. Fall/Winter 2021, Spring/Summer 2021 and Fall/Winter 2020 appear below.
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John Steinbeck, Of Mice and MenJay Dicharry, Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength and SpeedIbram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, AmericanahDavid Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After WarmingJane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying TimesReni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About RaceBarbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop ThemElizabeth Williamson, Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for TruthDina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing RockMichael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street RevoltAngela Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement- Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- Michael J. Sandel, Justice
- Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- Miriam Paweł, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
On the stack
- Louis Klarevas, Rampage Nation: Securing America Against Mass Shootings
- Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Joshua Bloom, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
- Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
- Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
- Tim Wise, Dispatches from the Race War
- Ludo De Witte, The Assassination of Lumumba
- Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
- Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-1941
- Barack Obama, A Promised Land
- Thomas Bartlett, Ireland: A History
- Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Edward Said, Orientalism
- Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
- Charles Mann, 1493
- Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavor
- Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Gregory Rodriguez, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
- Ed Morales, LatinX: The New Force in American Politics and Culture
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- W.E.B. Dubois, Black Reconstruction
- Richard Wright, Native Son
- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
- Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
- Chancellor Williams, Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
- Philip Dray, There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
- Robert Farrar Capon, Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus
- Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology
- John King Fairbank, China: A New History
- Paul Strathern, The Medici
- Stephen Cope, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
- Matthew Sockolov, Practicing Mindfulness: 75 Essential Meditations
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (restarting)
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (restarting)
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Don DeLillo, Underworld (restarting)
- Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
- Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
- Richard Powers, The Overstory
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Fall/Winter 2021
Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Peter Kalmus, Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate RevolutionMark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist HandbookThomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyDan Rather, What Unites Us: Reflections on PatriotismGeorge Herbert, DuneJames Welch, Winter in the BloodMichael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachineKathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary AmericaLes Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XNaomi Klein, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Mary Robinson, Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable FutureSarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
Spring/Summer 2021
Stephen Shames and Bobby Seale, Power to the People: The World of the Black PanthersAnne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of CapitalismAngela Y. Davis, Women, Race & ClassMadeline Miller, The Song of AchillesEldridge Cleaver, Soul on IceThomas Merton, Life and HolinessTom Wicker, A Time to Die: The Attica Prison RevoltMarcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the LandMohsin Hamid, Exit WestIbram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power ManifestoSteven Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present and Future of American LaborFrantz Fanon, The Wretched of the EarthMichael E. Mann, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our PlanetDavid Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the PresentJohn Lee Anderson, Che Guevera: A Revolutionary LifeElias Rodriques, All the Water I’ve Seen Is RunningNick Sousanis, UnflatteningAndy Slavitt, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus ResponseBessel Van Der Kolk, MD, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of TraumaAndy Puddicombe, The Headspace Guide to Meditation & MindfulnessShannon Mattern, A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
Fall/Winter 2020
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance CapitalismGene Sperling, Economic DignityCathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math DestructionChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be FeministsEric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass MovementsTa-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and MeLuc Sante, The Other ParisJason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and ThemHope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From HereNoe Alvarez, Spirit Run: A 6,000 Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen LandsChad Robertson, Tartine BreadEduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a ContinentIsabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great MigrationJames Baldwin, The Fire Next TimeKazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me GoToni Morrison, The Source of Self RegardIsabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our DiscontentsToni Morrison, The Origin of OthersElias Canetti, Crowds and PowerMurray Shanahan, The Technological SingularityMichael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of MarketsMichael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessElizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the FutureHeather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper TogetherTalia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White SupremacyNaomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismS.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the ComanchesMalcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm XElizabeth Rush, Rising: Dispatches from the New American ShoreJeffrey Haas, The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered A Black PantherAdam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy