Here are 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction, that are worth a read (or re-read) in this post-election climate.
Take a break from the insanity on Facebook and get your reading on.
I promise, you'll like it.
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Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Bossypants by Tina Fey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In Praise of American Educators: And How They Can Become Even Better by Dr. Richard DuFour
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel by Percival Everett
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Lincoln: Speeches, Letters, Miscellaneous Writings, Presidential Messages and Proclamations by Abraham Lincoln
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why by Sady Doyle
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Sing For Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family by Daniel Bergner
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Carting for Self While Caring for Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Islam in America by Jane I. Smith
Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain by Dana Suskind, MD
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism – From Goldwater to Trump and Beyond by E.J. Dionne Jr.
This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is shaping the Twenty-First Century by Mark Engler
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Covergirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank
On Living by Kerry Egan
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
Sexy Liberal! Of Me I Sing by Stephanie Miller
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Mothers: A Novel by Brit Bennett
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
After Disasters by Viet Dinh
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
The Hopefuls: A Novel by Jennifer Close
Sweetbitter: A Novel by Stephanie Danler