The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

bell hooks

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival

Justine van der Leun

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Rachel Louise Snyder

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

Bryan Burrough

Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer

Story Engineering

Larry Brooks

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Elizabeth Comen

A Nation of Immigrants

John F. Kennedy

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

Stanley Karnow

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

Laurie Marhoefer

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

Melinda French Gates

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

Kim Kelly

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

Leah Litman

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

Jenny Wang

The Bhagavad Gita

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Mariame Kaba

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Dean Spade