The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon

1.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,322,998 ratings
2.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,225,927 ratings
3.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,042 ratings
4.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,723 ratings
5.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,373 ratings
6.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,798 ratings
7.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating — 26,726 ratings
8.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,441 ratings
9.
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,684 ratings
10.
Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,312 ratings
11.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,928 ratings
12.
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life 4.11 avg rating — 3,513 ratings
13.
It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here 3.80 avg rating — 22,839 ratings
14.
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,721 ratings
15.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,281 ratings
16.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,472 ratings
17.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America 3.76 avg rating — 24,554 ratings
18.
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,133 ratings
19.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,326 ratings
20.
The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,390 ratings
21.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,233 ratings
22.
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
23.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,576 ratings
24.
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,561 ratings
25.
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 9,594,150 ratings
26.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,292 ratings
27.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating — 89,885 ratings
28.
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,506 ratings
29.
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating — 18,905 ratings
30.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,283 ratings
31.
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics 4.26 avg rating — 10,889 ratings
32.
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,339 ratings
33.
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 130,987 ratings
34.
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America 4.31 avg rating — 3,488 ratings
35.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,170 ratings
36.
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America 4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
37.
Orientalism
Orientalism 4.13 avg rating — 28,507 ratings
38.
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools 4.35 avg rating — 6,610 ratings
39.
V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta 4.26 avg rating — 320,835 ratings
40.
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays 4.06 avg rating — 17,586 ratings
40.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,484 ratings
42.
Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,144 ratings
43.
How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman 3.71 avg rating — 109,843 ratings
44.
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) 4.42 avg rating — 156,018 ratings
45.
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Letter from the Birmingham Jail 4.72 avg rating — 8,437 ratings
46.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 365,567 ratings
47.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) 4.47 avg rating — 11,063,810 ratings
48.
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon 3.93 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
49.
Drift
Drift 4.07 avg rating — 20,838 ratings
50.
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory 4.01 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
51.
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.26 avg rating — 3,612 ratings
52.
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond 4.31 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
53.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 4.29 avg rating — 51,930 ratings
54.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating — 67,295 ratings
55.
The Shame of the Nation
The Shame of the Nation 4.14 avg rating — 5,065 ratings
56.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,577 ratings
57.
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America 4.06 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
58.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Origins of Totalitarianism 4.30 avg rating — 13,913 ratings
59.
Nobody Knows My Name
Nobody Knows My Name 4.37 avg rating — 4,611 ratings
60.
Social Darwinism in American Thought
Social Darwinism in American Thought 3.79 avg rating — 279 ratings
61.
Race Matters
Race Matters 4.15 avg rating — 11,892 ratings
62.
How to Be Black
How to Be Black 3.90 avg rating — 8,857 ratings
63.
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think 4.03 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
64.
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 4.19 avg rating — 14,285 ratings
65.
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered 4.09 avg rating — 6,886 ratings
66.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
67.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,352 ratings
68.
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism 3.89 avg rating — 3,774 ratings
68.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays 4.16 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
68.
Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
71.
Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
72.
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America 4.25 avg rating — 10,667 ratings
73.
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin 4.07 avg rating — 5,471 ratings
74.
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
75.
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It 3.87 avg rating — 1,656 ratings
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America 4.13 avg rating — 12,370 ratings
77.
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives 3.97 avg rating — 6,981 ratings
78.
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,687 ratings
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Knowing Victims: Feminism, Agency and Victim Politics in Neoliberal Times
Knowing Victims: Feminism, Agency and Victim Politics in Neoliberal Times 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
80.
Guantánamo Diary
Guantánamo Diary 4.10 avg rating — 5,897 ratings
80.
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating — 19,295 ratings
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Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond 4.07 avg rating — 966 ratings
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The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics 3.74 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin 3.94 avg rating — 2,722 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings
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Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped 4.04 avg rating — 3,437 ratings
86.
How the Right Lost Its Mind
How the Right Lost Its Mind 3.91 avg rating — 889 ratings
88.
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass 4.23 avg rating — 3,885 ratings
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The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism 3.81 avg rating — 900 ratings
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Moyers on Democracy
Moyers on Democracy 4.30 avg rating — 351 ratings
91.
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism 4.35 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
91.
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
by: Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating — 176,913 ratings
93.
Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror 4.04 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Rebel
The Rebel 4.14 avg rating — 18,047 ratings
95.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,025 ratings
96.
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
by: Malcolm X
4.47 avg rating — 6,239 ratings
97.
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
by: Eli Clare
4.37 avg rating — 2,483 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much 3.94 avg rating — 7,269 ratings
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Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City 3.97 avg rating — 58 ratings
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