BOOKS

• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling
• 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
• In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu
• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
• The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti
• The Return by Hisham Matar
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
• Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen
• The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes
• American Prison by Shane Bauer
• Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
• Feel Free by Zadie Smith
• Florida by Lauren Groff
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

MOVIES

• Annihilation
• Black Panther
• BlacKkKlansman
• Blindspotting
• Burning
• The Death of Stalin
• Eighth Grade
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Leave No Trace
• Minding the Gap
• The Rider
• Roma
• Shoplifters
• Support the Girls
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor

SONGS

• Apes••t by The Carters
• Bad Bad News by Leon Bridges
• Could’ve Been by H.E.R. (feat. Bryson Tiller)
• Disco Yes by Tom Misch (feat. Poppy Ajudha)
• Ekombe by Jupiter & Okwess
• Every Time I Hear That Song by Brandi Carlile
• Girl Goin’ Nowhere by Ashley McBryde
• Historia De Un Amor by Tonina (feat. Javier Limón and Tali Rubinstein)
• I Like It by Cardi B (feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin)
• Kevin’s Heart by J. Cole
• King For A Day by Anderson East
• Love Lies by Khalid & Normani
• Make Me Feel by Janelle Monáe
• Mary Don’t You Weep (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version) by Prince
• My Own Thing by Chance the Rapper (feat. Joey Purp)
• Need a Little Time by Courtney Barnett
• Nina Cried Power by Hozier (feat. Mavis Staples)
• Nterini by Fatoumata Diawara
• One Trick Ponies by Kurt Vile
• Turnin’ Me Up by BJ the Chicago Kid
• Wait by the River by Lord Huron
• Wow Freestyle by Jay Rock (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
• And in honor of one of the great jazz singers of all time, who died this year, a classic album: The Great American Songbook by Nancy Wilson