Books about how systems of inequality are constructed and maintained.
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last updated September, 2025
Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment
Maxine Bedat
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
Laura Bates
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Siddharth Kara
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
Bethany Brookshire
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Sabrina Strings
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Kate Marvel
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Eric Klinenberg
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Ruby Hamad
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
Jack El-Hai
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
Lindsey Stewart
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Gary Greenberg
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Molly Smith
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Gone to Soldiers
Marge Piercy
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
Donovan X. Ramsey
We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
Erin Kimmerle
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Robert Jay Lifton
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Tim Pat Coogan
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini
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