Our Top 10 List of Books That Will Challenge Perspectives

Compiled by Our Librarians and Volunteers

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

Michelle Alexander

Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Dark Money: the Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present

Howard Zinn

Listen, Liberal or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

Thomas Frank

American Nations: a History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 
Colin Woodard

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild