Citations Needed Reading List (58 books)

Books featured on the Citations Needed podcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson

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1	Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 5,337 ratings score: 390, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 866 ratings score: 293, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action by Vicky Osterweil (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 730 ratings score: 267, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel 4.62 avg rating — 3,857 ratings score: 265, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel 4.50 avg rating — 8,917 ratings score: 196, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Decolonizing Dialectics by Geo Maher 4.02 avg rating — 86 ratings score: 174, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat 4.55 avg rating — 965 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Necessary Trouble: Americans In Revolt by Sarah Jaffe (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 390 ratings score: 172, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane F. McAlevey 4.33 avg rating — 913 ratings score: 140, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction by Maia Szalavitz (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 2,264 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Gramsci's Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives by Kate Crehan 4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity by Lewis Raven Wallace (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 261 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Jim Brown: Last Man Standing by Dave Zirin 3.75 avg rating — 267 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood by Matthew Alford 3.84 avg rating — 111 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game by Oliver Stone 4.10 avg rating — 2,075 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School by Jack Schneider 4.09 avg rating — 698 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing by Tim Shorrock 3.65 avg rating — 169 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region by Michele Grigsby Coffey (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump's Stolen America by Haki R. Madhubuti (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom by Steven Salaita 4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald 4.07 avg rating — 15,037 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	[Don't] Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 2,359 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To by Dean Burnett (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 10,837 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton 4.03 avg rating — 9,789 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Killing African Americans by Noel A. Cazenave 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond by Hannah Gurman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel, and the Media by Greg Shupak 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 9) by Sheila Carapico 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges 3.95 avg rating — 6,053 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love by Dave Zirin 3.74 avg rating — 240 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers 4.24 avg rating — 2,366 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank 4.23 avg rating — 1,282 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Why You Should Be a Socialist by Nathan J. Robinson 3.89 avg rating — 1,342 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean by Sarah Bond 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking (The Middle Ages Series) by Cord J. Whitaker 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals by Lori Gruen 3.91 avg rating — 94 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life by Natasha Lennard 3.99 avg rating — 534 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media by Jeff Cohen 3.79 avg rating — 48 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It by Daniel Denvir 4.11 avg rating — 146 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill 4.08 avg rating — 5,102 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	No Shortcut to Change by Kara Ellerby really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks by Sumita Mukherjee (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 4.37 avg rating — 20,271 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad by Robert Elias 3.79 avg rating — 86 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liza Featherstone 4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade 4.41 avg rating — 1,168 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	In Our Power: U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine by Nora Barrows-Friedman 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 2,006 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Challenging Empire: People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power by Phyllis Bennis 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy by Linsey McGoey 3.78 avg rating — 366 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden by Branko Marcetic 4.03 avg rating — 442 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alexander Zevin 3.99 avg rating — 153 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace by Frank Schaeffer 3.68 avg rating — 902 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States by Shannon Gleeson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy by Mark Weisbrot 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase 3.77 avg rating — 3,672 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes 4.42 avg rating — 1,764 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent by P.E. Moskowitz 3.83 avg rating — 249 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars