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Bestselling in Social Science

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  • The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

    Author Thomas L. Friedman
  • My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS

    Author Abraham Verghese
  • Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It

    Author Gina Kolata
  • Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America

    Author Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

    Author David Simon
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

    Author Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

    Author Laurie Garrett
  • Helen Keller: The Story of My Life: The Story of My Life' by Helen Keller with 'Her Letters' (1887-1901) and 'A Supplementary Account of Her Education'

    Author Helen Keller
  • The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

    Author Kate Moore
  • The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)

    Author Anthony Ray Hinton
  • Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

    Author Sam Quinones
  • The Gene: An Intimate History

    Author Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Same Kind of Different As Me Movie Edition: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

    Author Ron Hall
  • The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

    Author Melinda Gates
  • Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition

    Author John Howard Griffin
  • More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

    Author Franklin Veaux
  • Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

    Author Ian Morris
  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

    Author Reni Eddo-Lodge
  • Slaves in the Family

    Author Edward Ball
  • Helen Keller: The Story of my Life (Rediscovered Books): The Story of My Life' by Helen Keller with 'Her Letters' (1887-1901) and 'A Supplementary Account of Her Education'

    Author Helen Keller
  • The Human Condition: Second Edition

    Author Hannah Arendt
  • Regarding the Pain of Others

    Author Susan Sontag
  • Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

    Author Robert K. Ressler
  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

    Author Marshall McLuhan
  • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    Author Layla F. Saad
  • Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

    Author David Weinberger
  • Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Author Irin Carmon
  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    Author Carol Anderson
  • I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

    Author Pamela Des Barres
  • Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

    Author Keith Lowe

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  • Dispatches from the Race War

    Author Tim Wise
  • Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

    Author Kwame Alexander
  • IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives

    Author Chris Stedman
  • She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

    Author Sarah Smarsh
  • Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

    Author Cristina Rivera Garza
  • Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

    Author Anne Helen Petersen
  • Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World

    Author Cole Brown
  • Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest

    Author CSPtrade
  • Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

    Author Laura E. Gómez

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  • Bad at Adulting, Good at Feminism: Comics on Relationships, Life & Food

    Author Prudence Geerts
  • Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

    Author Valeria Luiselli
  • Men Explain Things to Me

    Author Rebecca Solnit
  • The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    Author Amitav Ghosh
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

    Author Angela Y. Davis
  • Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address

    Author Stephen Birmingham
  • The Riot Grrrl Collection

    Author Johanna Fateman
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

    Author Joan Didion
  • Letter to My Rage: An Evolution

    Author Lidia Yuknavitch
  • Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    Author Dorothy Roberts
  • Sex Rules!: Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World

    Author Janice Zarro Brodman
  • Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

    Author Gloria Steinem

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  • Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel

    Author Zora Neale Hurston
  • An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

    Author Tayari Jones
  • Salvage the Bones: A Novel

    Author Jesmyn Ward
  • The Color Purple

    Author Alice Walker
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

    Author Jesmyn Ward
  • Parable of the Talents

    Author Octavia E. Butler
  • The Third Life of Grange Copeland

    Author Alice Walker
  • Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

    Author Zora Neale Hurston
  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    Author Carol Anderson
  • Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel

    Author Ntozake Shange
  • Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan

    Author June Jordan
  • Moses, Man of the Mountain

    Author Zora Neale Hurston
  • Meridian

    Author Alice Walker
  • Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

    Author Barbara Ransby
  • For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

    Author Ntozake Shange
  • In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose

    Author Alice Walker
  • Sweat (TCG Edition)

    Author Lynn Nottage
  • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

    Author Monique Morris
  • Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

    Author Pearl Cleage
  • All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900

    Author Martha S. Jones
  • The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions

    Author Vilna Bashi Treitler
  • Blood Dazzler: Poems

    Author Patricia Smith
  • Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class

    Author Karyn Lacy
  • Ugly Ways

    Author Tina McElroy Ansa
  • Linden Hills: A Novel

    Author Gloria Naylor
  • When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

    Author Paula J. Giddings
  • Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

    Author Michele Wallace
  • Brown Girl, Brownstones

    Author Paule Marshall
  • The Street

    Author Ann Petry
  • Quicksand

    Author Nella Larsen

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    Fight Anti-Asian Racism

    Resources to #StopAsianHate.
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    Critical Lessons in Feminism

    How contemporary feminist thought and theory is shaping new and future policies.
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    Our Community’s Favorite Works by Black Authors

    We asked our community which Black authors to amplify. Here are the answers.
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    Honoring Asian Pacific Americans

    These nonfiction works delve into the dual lives of Asian Pacific Americans.
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    Amanda Gorman’s Favorite Poets and Artists

    Poet Gorman stole the show at Joe Biden’s inauguration. Here are her influences.
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    The Books Behind the 2021 Oscar Nominees

    Adaptations of these stories were in the running for an Academy Award this year.
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    2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners

    These works have been recognized by one of the most prestigious literary awards.
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    Katie Couric Loves These Books by Strong Women

    The iconic journalist’s picks spotlight inspiring ways to embrace your power.
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    Antiracism: A Reading List

    Essential reading for those who want to be part of the solution.
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    Women of Color Authors You Need to Read

    According to bookstagramer Lupita.Reads, these are critical books by minorities.
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    6 Essential Nonfiction Accounts of Past Pandemics

    Help stop the spread of coronavirus with knowledge of previous deadly diseases.
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    Ibram X. Kendi’s Picks for Antiracism Reads

    Help fight racism with these picks from the author’s New York Times article.
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    Editors’ Picks: Social Science

    Thoughts on culture that sparked conversations nationally & among our editors.
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