A collection of books I’ve read/need to read that can help to better understand our past, present, and perhaps future of the US.
created by mintea
last updated May, 2026
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Laila Lalami
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band
Christian Staebler
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Michael Luo
Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
How to Be an Antiracist
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
They Called Us Enemy
George Takei
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