Gideon's Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice
By: Jonathan Rapping
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A blueprint for criminal justice reform that puts a new generation of public defenders front and ce…
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1. Gideon's Trumpet
By: Anthony Lewis
3.91
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Gideon's Trumpet is the story of this extraordinary case, from the night of June 3, 1961, when the … read more
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- nonfiction
- law
2. The Windup Girl
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager… read more
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3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
4. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By: Bryan Stevenson
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
5. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
By: Gilbert King
3.67
Format: 348 pages, ebook
Devil in the Groveis the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Arguably the mos… read more
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6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By: None
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more
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7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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8. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
By: J.D. Vance
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, a poignant account of growing up in a poor Appal… read more
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9. To Paradise
By: Hanya Yanagihara
3.75
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and … read more
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"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise
10. Felon: Poems
By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
4.34
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
11. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.74
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more
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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
12. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
13. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
By: Arkady Martine
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more
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"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
14. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more
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15. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
By: Geena Davis
4.04
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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- nonfiction
16. The Once and Future Witches
By: Alix E. Harrow
4.04
Format: 517 pages, Hardcover
In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burn… read more
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"An angry woman is a smart woman"-Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
"Girls who go looking for trouble usually find it."-Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
"Wickedness was like beauty: in the eye of the beholder."-Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
"There's still no such thing as witches. But there will be."-Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
17. The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
By: Nicholas Dawidoff
4.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young strange… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- law
18. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
By: Emily Bazelon
4.31
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- law
"the "criminal justice system accomplishes nothing we think of as its purpose," Sotomayor told her audience. "We think we're keeping people safe from criminals. We're just making worse criminals."-Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
"Somewhere along the way, the balance of power between the prosecution, the defense, and the judiciary shifted. We have to readjust it. The stakes are so high—the well-being of so many communities and…"-Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
19. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
By: Erwin Chemerinsky
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a “smoking gun” of civil rights researc… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- law
20. Gideon's Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice
By: Jonathan Rapping
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A blueprint for criminal justice reform that puts a new generation of public defenders front and ce… read more
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21. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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