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She Said

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

A Coming-Of-Age Murder Mystery About Love, Nature & Abandonment

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic on Racial Prejudice & Injustice

26

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

George Orwell

A Dystopian Classic on the Dangers of Totalitarianism

22

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

A Political Satire on the Corrupting Influence of Power

31

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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

An Epic Novel About Queer Life, Friendship & Human Endurance

22

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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

The Tragic Story of Two Star-Crossed Lovers From Feuding Families

23

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The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A Tale About the Human Condition and the Search for Happiness

19

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Eclipse of Reason

Max Horkheimer

On Reclaiming the Individual and Fighting Oppression

19

More Than Pretty Boxes

Carrie M. Lane

How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working

17

Melania

Melania Trump

A Memoir

26

Radical Inclusion

David Moinina Sengeh

Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World

20

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History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

A Chronicle of Power, Conflict, and the Fall of Ancient Greece

18

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Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

Kasey Edwards

In a world that tells them they're flawed

19

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Children of Ash and Elm

Neil Price

A History of the Vikings

20

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The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Exploring Myths that Shape our Identity and Reality

20

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Revenge of the Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

18

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Too Smart

Jathan Sadowski

How Digital Capitalism Is Taking Over the World

19

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I Never Thought of It That Way

Mónica Guzmán

How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

17

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Abortion

Jessica Valenti

Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

18

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Abolish Rent

Tracy Rosenthal

How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

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The Battle for Your Brain

Nita A. Farahany

Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

13

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Technofeudalism

Yanis Varoufakis

What Killed Capitalism

17

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Habits of a Peacemaker

Steven T. Collis

10 Habits to Turn Toxic Conversations Into Healthy Dialogues

18

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Living Resistance

Kaitlin B. Curtice

An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

19

3.4

Blind Spots

Marty Makary

When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

18

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The Demon of Unrest

Erik Larson

A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

21

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The Sublime Object of Ideology

Slavoj Zizek

Uncover the Hidden Forces Shaping Ideology and Human Perception

17

4.4

Who Rules the World?

Noam Chomsky

Explore the Hidden Powers That Govern Our World Today

18

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On Palestine

Noam Chomsky

Examine the Roots of Conflict and the Path to Justice in Palestine

22

3.4

Parasitic Mind

Gad Saad

How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

19

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How Economics Explains the World

Andrew Leigh

A Short History of Humanity

20

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Hope for Cynics

Jamil Zaki

The Surprising Science of Human Goodness

17

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Follow the Science

Sharyl Attkisson

How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails

19

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Liars

Cass R. Sunstein

Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception

17

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

Don Thompson

The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

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