• “Becoming” by Michelle Obama
  • “An American Marriage” by Tayari Jones
  • “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • “American Prison” by Shane Bauer
  • “Arthur Ashe: A Life” by Raymond Arsenault
  • “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday
  • “The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die” by Keith Payne
  • “Educated” by Tara Westover
  • “Factfulness” by Hans Rosling
  • “Feel Free” by Zadie Smith
  • “Florida” by Lauren Groff
  • “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight
  • “Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging” by Alex Wagner
  • “A Grain of Wheat” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  • “A House for Mr Biswas” by V.S. Naipaul
  • “How Democracies Die” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
  • “Immigrant, Montana” by Amitava Kumar
  • “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History” by Mitch Landrieu
  • “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” by Denis Johnson
  • “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by Max Tegmark
  • “Long Walk to Freedom” by Nelson Mandela
  • “The New Geography of Jobs” by Enrico Moretti
  • “The Return” by Hisham Matar
  • “There There” by Tommy Orange
  • “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe
  • “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje
  • “Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan
  • “Why Liberalism Failed” by Patrick Deneen
  • “The World As It Is” by Ben Rhodes
dec 30 2018 ∞
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