Big Books of 2026
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
18th out of 98 books — 55 voters
Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd ParryRed Famine by Anne ApplebaumJanesville by Amy GoldsteinThe Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward LuceThe Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
The Economist - Books of the Year, 2017
23rd out of 45 books — 17 voters

The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-HalkettFriendly Fascism by Bertram M. GrossDream Hoarders by Richard V. ReevesThe New Minority by Justin GestWhite Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Progressive Mind Twists & Shifts
3rd out of 6 books — 2 voters
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati RoyUntil It Fades by K.A. TuckerMidnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn AndersonBelieve Me by Eddie IzzardI Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart
Best books of June, 2017
27th out of 36 books — 19 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
721st out of 2,135 books — 1,540 voters
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderStrangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell HochschildHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWhite Trash by Nancy Isenberg
Books for Post-Election Understanding
95th out of 198 books — 141 voters

Understanding Power by Noam ChomskyAgainst the Web by Michael BrooksDark Money by Jane MayerThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderAgainst the Web by Michael Brooks
TMBS Book Recommendations
83rd out of 151 books — 61 voters
Against the Web by Michael BrooksChaos by Tom O'NeillA Theory of Everything by Ken WilberThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XDoughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
Michael Brooks Reading List
8th out of 43 books — 6 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovOutliers by Malcolm GladwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
3983rd out of 4,071 books — 2,067 voters
30 Years Behind Bars by Karen GedneyWe Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-GharbiExcellent Sheep by William DeresiewiczUneasy Street by Rachel ShermanThe Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
On The Upper Middle Class
7th out of 8 books — 10 voters


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