#educational

• alice amsden - asia's next giant: south korea and late industrialization
• amana fontanella-khan - pink sari revolution
• angela y. davis - freedom is a constant struggle: ferguson, palestine, and the foundations of a movement
• ann lauterbach - the night sky: writings on the poetics of experience
• anne mendelson - chow chop suey: food and the chinese american journey
• barbara demick - nothing to envy: ordinary lives in north korea
• brian alexander - glass house: the 1% economy and the shattering of the all-american town
• c. riley snorton - nobody is supposed to know: black sexuality on the down low
• carol anderson - white rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide
• celine parrenas shimizu - the hypersexuality of race: performing asian/american women on screen and scene
• chalmers a johnson - peasant nationalism and communist power, the emergence of revolutionary china
• chalmers johnson - miti and the japanese miracle
• christopher r. browning - ordinary men: reserve police battalion 101 and the final solution in poland
• craig steven wilder - a covenant with color: race and social power in brooklyn
• craig steven wilder - ebony and ivy: race, slavery, and the troubled history of america's universities
• d. soyini madison - critical ethnography: methods, ethics, and performance
• daniel tudor - korea: the impossible country
• david l. eng - the feeling of kinship
• david l. eng & alice y. hom - q & a: queer in asian america
• deborah willis & natasha logan - question bridge: black males in america
• denny roy - taiwan: a political history
• don oberdorfer & robert carlin - the two koreas: a contemporary history
• donna haraway - simians, cyborgs and women
• dov waxman - trouble in the tribe: the american jewish conflict over israel
• e. patrick johnson - appropriating blackness: performance and the politics of authenticity
• e. patrick johnson - no tea, no shade: new writings in black queer studies
• e. patrick johnson - sweet tea: black gay men of the south
• elizabeth l. cline - overdressed: the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion
• ellen d. wu - the color of success: asian americans and the origins of the model minority (politics and society in modern america)
• elliott west - the last indian war: the nez perce story
• erika lee - the making of asian america: a history
• evan osnos - age of ambition: chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new china
• fred ho - afro asia: revolutionary, political, and cultural connections between african americans and asian americans
• gregory henderson - korea: the politics of the vortex
• gregory p. downs - after appomattox: military occupation and the ends of war
• harriet a. washington - medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on black americans from colonial times to the represent
• heather mac donald - the war on cops: how the new attack on law and order makes everyone less safe
• iris chang - the chinese in america
• iris chang - the rape of nanking: the forgotten holocaust of world war ii
• jasbir puar - terrorist assemblages: homonationalism in queer times
• jeff chang - can't stop; won't stop
• jesmyn ward - the fire this time: a new generation speaks about race
• ji-li jiang + david henry hwang - red scarf girl
• jiz lee - coming out like a porn star
• john joe sclichtman, jason patch, marc lamont hill, peter marcuse - gentrifier
• jonathan kozol - savage inequalities: children in america's schools
• jose esteban munoz - cruising utopia: the ten and there of queer futurity
• joy angela degruy - post traumatic slave syndrome: america's legacy of enduring injury and healing
• ju hee suk & ji-whan yun - states of welfare: the east asian context of tax-welfare backlash
• juana maria rodrigeuz - sexual futures, queer gestures, and other latina longings
• judith halberstam - the queer art of failure
• julie guthman - weighing in: obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism
• julie otsuka - the buddha in the attic
• kaitlyn szydlowski + di rafael tella + meg rithmire - governing the "chinese dream": cooruption, inequality, and the rule of law
• katherine boo - behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a mumbai undercity
• katherine zoepf - excellent daughters
• kathleen collins - whatever happened to interracial love?
• kathryn bond stockton - beautiful bottom, beautiful shame: where "black" meets "queer"
• keeanga-yamahtta taylor - from #blacklivesmatter to black liberation
• kenneth lieberthal - governing china: from revolution through reform
• lawrence otis graham - out kind of people: inside america's black upper class
• lawrence ross - blackballed: the black and white politics of race on america's campuses
• leslie t. chang - factor girls: from village to city in a changing china
• lin zhan - asian americans: vulnerable populations, model interventions, and clarifying agendas
• linda williams - hard core: power, pleasure, and the "frenzy of the visible"
• linda williams - porn studies
• lisa see - on gold mountain: the one-hundred-year odyssey of my chinese-american family
• marc lamont hill - nobody: casualties of america's war on the vulnerable, from ferguson to flint and beyond
• matthew desmond - evicted: poverty and profit in the american city
• mel y. chen - animacies: biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect
• michael eric dyson - tears we cannot stop: a sermon to white america
• michael n. barnett - the star and the stripes: a history of the freign policies of american jews
• michelle y. hsu - the good immigrants: how the yellow peril became the model minority (politics and society in modern america)
• monica sone - nisei daughter
• nancy isenberg - white trash: the 400-year untold history of class in america
• nnedi okorafor - binti: home
• pamela rotner sakamoto - midnight in broad daylight: a japanese american family caught between two worlds
• peter a. petri - the lessons of east asia
• peter kien-hong yu - ocean governance, regimes, and the south china sea issues
• peter moskowitz - how to kill a city: gentrification, inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood
• richard florida - the new urban crisis: how our cities are increasing inequality, deepening segregation, and failing the middle class-- and what we can do about it
• richard reeves - infamy: the shocking story of the japanese american internment in world war ii
• rob schmitz - street of eternal happiness: big city dreams along a shanghai road
• rosalina morris - can the subaltern speak? reflection on the history of an idea
• roy scranton - learning how to die in the anthropocene
• salim yaqub - imperfect strangers: americans, arabs, and u.s.-middle east relations in the 1970s
• samuel r. delany - times square red, times square blue
• sanjoy chakravorty - the other one percent: indians in america
• sara ahmed - queer phenomenology: orientations, objects, others
• sharon zukin - naked city: the death and life of authentic urban places
• sheryl wudunn + nicholas d. kristof - half the sky
• shira n. robinson - citizen strangers: palestinians and the birth of israel's liberal settler state
• tan hoang nguyen - a view from the bottom: asian american masculinity and sexual representation
• tansy e. hoskins - stitched up: the anti-capitalist book of fashion
• tim dean - porn archives
• xinran - the good women of china

fiction

• anne carson - antigonick
• anne carson - glass, irony, and god
• david foster wallace - infinite jest
• donna tartt - the secret history
• garth stein - the art of racing in the rain
• george saunders - civilwarland in bad decline
• hao jingfang - folding beijing
• italo calvino - invisible cities
• john wray - lowboy
• mary karr - sinners welcome
• natsuo kirino - grotesque
• natsuo kirino - real world
• ray bradbury - fahrenheit 451
• redfield jamison - an unquiet mind
• richard brautigan - in watermelon sugar
• toni morrison - beloved
• vladimir nabokov - lolita
• yasutaka tsutsui - paparika
• zadie smith - nw

poetry

• e. e. cummings - the enormous room
• louise gluck - faithful and virtuous night
• ocean vuong - night sky with exit wounds
• richard siken - war of the foxes