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The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
#CharlestonSyllabus
188 books — 83 voters
Meltdown in Tibet by Michael BuckleyThe Great Escape by Angus DeatonThe Miracle by Michael SchumanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinPoverty and Famines by Amartya Sen
Development Economics, Growth
39 books — 5 voters

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge DanticatWide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysKrik? Krak! by Edwidge DanticatIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia AlvarezWhite Teeth by Zadie Smith
Caribbean/West Indian Diaspora Literature - Women (fiction)
209 books — 157 voters
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe History of White People by Nell Irvin PainterPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDFamily Properties by Beryl Satter
Ta-Nehisi Coates Reading List
20 books — 13 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
752 books — 1,929 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
1,481 books — 562 voters

Why Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinCrony Capitalism in America by Hunter Lewis
Econs For Change
174 books — 48 voters
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyBlood River by Tim ButcherKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildThey Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van SertimaThe Frontlines of Peace by Severine Autesserre
Africa - Nonfiction
402 books — 164 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,191 books — 1,614 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,146 books — 1,614 voters

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
228 books — 217 voters
Riyad-us-Saliheen by Yahya ibn Sharaf Al-NawawiThe End of the World by Muhammad Al-'AreefiDescription of Paradise in the Glorious Qur'an by Abdul Halim Ibn Muhammad Na...استمتع بحياتك by Muhammad Al-'AreefiReal Life Lesson From Quran by Muhammad Bilal Lakhani
Best Books by Islamic Studies Scholars
208 books — 159 voters


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