Fall/Winter 2020
Actual books, in between all of the other short-form online and offline distractions. The stack keeps growing, so undoubtedly this will carry to Spring and Summer. Slowly adding some fiction back in after a long time away.
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Shoshana Ruboff, 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- Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Elizabeth Rush, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
- S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches
- Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
- Michael J. Sandel, Justice
On the stack
- Steven Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present and Future of American Labor
- Michael E. Mann, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land
- Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
- John Lee Anderson, Che Guevera: A Revolutionary Life
- David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
- Dan Rather, What Unites Us
- Barack Obama, A Promised Land
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- 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
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
- W.E.B. Dubois, Black Reconstruction
- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
- Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Chancellor Williams, Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Charles Mann, 1493
- Philip Dray, There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
- 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
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (restarting)
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (restarting)
- Don DeLillo, Underworld (restarting)
- Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
- Richard Wright, Native Son
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth
- Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life