Red Rising

Pierce Brown

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

Laura Bates

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason F. Stanley

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

The Stand

Stephen King

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

Human Acts

Han Kang

The Poppy War

R.F. Kuang

The Giver

Lois Lowry

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Maya Angelou

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley