Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/118158326-dayla">Dayla</a> (38 Lists)

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Boy by Roald Dahl

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

The Color of Water by James McBride

Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies

2,101 books — 1,950 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

Best African American Books

1,043 books — 1,138 voters

The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr.

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Backlash by Susan Faludi

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,129 books — 1,536 voters

Land by Simon Winchester

Sensational by Kim Todd

The Light of Days by Judy Batalion

Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell

The Barbizon by Paulina Bren

History Published in Year: 2021

581 books — 111 voters

Consequences of Capitalism by Noam Chomsky

A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl

Speechless by Michael J. Knowles

Lessons from the Edge by Marie Yovanovitch

The Reckoning by Mary L. Trump

Politics Published in Year: 2021

287 books — 26 voters

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore

American Studies 101

83 books — 21 voters

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore

The Republican War on Science by Chris C. Mooney

Chavs by Owen Jones

Best Progressive Reads

1,063 books — 710 voters

Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight

Breaking Brown Book Reads

98 books — 55 voters

The Evangelicals by Frances FitzGerald

Deconstructing Evangelical Christianity

72 books — 39 voters

Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch

Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

Best Books on African American Studies (nonfiction)

248 books — 136 voters

The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong

Devil in the Details by Jennifer Traig

Leap of Faith by Queen Noor

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Memoirs by Women

3,016 books — 3,031 voters

Thinking In Pictures by Temple Grandin

Don't Let It Get You Down Syndrome by S.K. Dinning

autism: fiction AND non-fiction

254 books — 234 voters

Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2021

1,014 books — 202 voters

The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura

Feminism Published in Decade: 2020s

103 books — 16 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Best American History Books

2,124 books — 2,495 voters

The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart

God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley Jr.

Daughters of God, Subordinates of Men by Lesly F Massey

Subordination of Women by Jackson

When Women Were Priests by Karen Jo Torjesen

Christian Nationalism Moves Away from Democracy

11 books — 2 voters

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King

Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas

Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction

85 books — 343 voters

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei

The Aeneid by Virgil

The Most Influential Books

1,479 books — 5,285 voters

All the Countries by Stuart Laycock

With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge

The Prize by Daniel Yergin

John Adams by David McCullough

1776 by David McCullough

Best History Books

3,709 books — 3,739 voters

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki

Pushout by Monique W. Morris

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Robert Parris Moses by Laura Visser-Maessen

Black/Latino Ed

63 books — 8 voters

Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell

Our Kids by Robert D. Putnam

Official Encouragement, Institutional Discouragement by William G. Tierney

Until Proven Innocent by Stuart Taylor Jr.

Presumed Incompetent by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

Controversies in Higher Education

171 books — 43 voters

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

March by John Lewis

Immigrant Justice & Anti-Racism

129 books — 31 voters

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,257 books — 2,433 voters

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,129 books — 3,678 voters

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Best Books of the Decade: 2000s

7,188 books — 28,375 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Martian by Andy Weir

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Best Books of the Decade: 2010s

7,686 books — 14,181 voters

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy Leary

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

Not That Bad by Roxane Gay

#ReadPOC: List of Nonfiction Books by Authors of Color

419 books — 53 voters

How to Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal Marie Fleming

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

Race and National Socialism

153 books — 13 voters

The White Princess by Philippa Gregory

Best Books About Tudor England

609 books — 1,628 voters

Man's Dominion by Sheila Jeffreys

Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

Popsugar 2021 #34 - A Book About a Social Justice Issue

322 books — 227 voters

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