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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Fear: Trump in the White House
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Just Mercy
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
How to Be an Antiracist
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Night by Elie WieselHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceA Mother's Reckoning by Sue KleboldThe Prince of Tides by Pat ConroyThe Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Fresh Air 2016
131 books — 32 voters
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil FerrisKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannGlass House by Brian  AlexanderGirls & Sex by Peggy OrensteinAl Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Fresh Air 2017
147 books — 40 voters

Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannEducated by Tara WestoverExit West by Mohsin HamidHow to Change Your Mind by Michael PollanEvicted by Matthew Desmond
Fresh Air 2018
160 books — 58 voters

The Midnight Kingdom by Jared Yates SextonHow the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox RichardsonSpecial Topics in Being a Human by S. Bear BergmanRevolutionary Letters by Diane di PrimaParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Post Election Book List
14 books — 1 voter

Mohsin Hamid
The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

Lindy West
It's about who feels safe in public spaces and who doesn't... which is to say it's about everything. There's so much talk right now about being on the wrong side or the right side of history. The truth is, that we have no idea whether the things we do are going to land us on the wrong side or the right side. ...more
Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

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