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last updated August, 2026
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
Catherine Cho
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Ian F. Haney-López
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Patricia Evangelista
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
Kashmir Hill
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
Laura Bates
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
Regina Calcaterra
The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them
Daniella Mestyanek Young
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
Lucia Jang
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason F. Stanley
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay
Call Me Tuesday
Leigh Byrne
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
Alden Wicker
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
Renee Engeln
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
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