2026 Reading Challenge

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Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariMoral Tribes by Joshua D. GreeneThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtPolitical Tribes by Amy ChuaOn Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Making Peace Between Tribalism and Globalization
128 books — 47 voters
The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantBrunelleschi's Dome by Ross KingThe House of Medici by Christopher HibbertThe Tigress of Forlì by Elizabeth Lev
The Italian Renaissance
282 books — 172 voters

Janesville by Amy GoldsteinDetroit by Scott MartelleExit Zero by Christine J. WalleyDetroit by Charlie LeDuffStayin’ Alive by Jefferson R. Cowie
Rust Belt Reads
39 books — 15 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinDrift by Rachel MaddowPolitical Tribes by Amy ChuaThe Tenth Parallel by Eliza GriswoldFutureface by Alex Wagner
Why Is This Happening? Podcast Reading List
91 books — 6 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinWithout Sanctuary by James AllenSegregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom MillerMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Segregation in the United States (nonfiction)
186 books — 22 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisLondon by Peter AckroydThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonSalonica, City of Ghosts by Mark MazowerLondon by Edward Rutherfurd
Histories of Cities
261 books — 106 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonBecoming by Michelle ObamaAn American Summer by Alex KotlowitzUgly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD
Chicago History (nonfiction)
213 books — 14 voters
Displacement by Lucy KnisleyAn Age of License by Lucy KnisleyAdventures of Wallanders by Alex LetnerPyongyang by Guy DelisleFrench Milk by Lucy Knisley
Graphic Travelogues
50 books — 30 voters

The Plague by Albert CamusKing of the Wind by Marguerite HenryIn the Country of Men by Hisham MatarThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeHideous Kinky by Esther Freud
North Africa
147 books — 34 voters
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerA Dry White Season by André BrinkThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaWe Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Southern Africa
264 books — 72 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildNo Mercy by Redmond O'HanlonPeaceland by Severine Autesserre
Central Africa
113 books — 71 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersWhere Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn MillsKintu by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
East Africa
251 books — 98 voters


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