Essential Nonfiction for Our Times

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Overview

A selection of nonfiction titles essential to better understanding the world as it is and our place in it. 

Somewhat focused on American issues for my own reference, though not exclusively. 

Challenge Books

1

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

2

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

3

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass by Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri

4

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

5

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

Deirdre Mask

6

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

7

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey

8

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

Sarah Jaffe

9

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

10

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

11

The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford

The American Way of Death Revisited

Jessica Mitford

12

Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman

Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Steve Silberman