Best Progressive Reads
201. 
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by:
Chris Hedges
3.95 avg rating β 5,937 ratings 
205. 
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
by:
Van Jones
3.70 avg rating β 865 ratings 205. 
207. 
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by:
Mike Davis
4.21 avg rating β 4,680 ratings 208. 
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
by:
Wendell Potter
4.15 avg rating β 1,010 ratings 
209. 
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and the Story of a Return
by:
Marjane Satrapi
4.40 avg rating β 199,609 ratings 209. 
Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It
by:
Cenk Uygur
4.25 avg rating β 417 ratings 212. 
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right
by:
E.J. Dionne Jr.
3.78 avg rating β 67 ratings 212. 
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
by:
Jim Wallis
3.66 avg rating β 3,556 ratings 212. 
63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
by:
Jesse Ventura
3.49 avg rating β 989 ratings 
216. 
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, & Swallow Citizens Whole 3.38 avg rating β 857 ratings
217. 
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Healthβand a Vision for Change
by:
Annie Leonard
4.08 avg rating β 4,343 ratings 218. 
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating β 9,667 ratings
218. 
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by:
Jake Johnston
4.14 avg rating β 209 ratings 
222. 
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by:
Naomi Wolf
3.96 avg rating β 3,099 ratings 223. 
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
by:
David Brock
3.83 avg rating β 1,772 ratings 223. 
225. 
Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism
by:
Julia Long
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 60 ratings 
227. 
227. 
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East 3.76 avg rating β 439 ratings
229. 
Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America
by:
Adam Cohen
3.92 avg rating β 756 ratings 
232. 
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture 4.12 avg rating β 540 ratings
232. 
When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back
by:
David Kirby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 64 ratings 235. 
Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision
by:
George Lakoff
4.05 avg rating β 294 ratings 235. 
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating β 26,841 ratings
235. 
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trumpβs Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by:
Naomi Klein
4.10 avg rating β 10,394 ratings 235. 
Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
by:
Irshad Manji
3.68 avg rating β 633 ratings 239. 
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters 3.92 avg rating β 260 ratings
241. 
The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat's Memoir: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity
by:
Joseph Wilson
3.89 avg rating β 284 ratings 
244. 
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by:
Jane Mayer
4.18 avg rating β 4,570 ratings 245. 
245. 
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by:
Kate Raworth
4.17 avg rating β 15,077 ratings 
247. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating β 215,205 ratings 
251. 
Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
by:
Naomi Wolf
3.89 avg rating β 521 ratings 251. 
Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores
by:
Greg Palast
4.13 avg rating β 495 ratings 
254. 
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
by:
Angela Nagle
3.45 avg rating β 6,560 ratings 
256. 
The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
by:
Neil Sheehan
3.97 avg rating β 527 ratings 257. 
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.76 avg rating β 854 ratings 258. 
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by:
Barry Glassner
3.70 avg rating β 3,735 ratings 259. 
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
by:
Frank Rich
3.88 avg rating β 1,543 ratings 
261. 
How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
by:
Glenn Greenwald
4.11 avg rating β 371 ratings 262. 
263. 
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by:
Susan Faludi
3.83 avg rating β 871 ratings 
264. 
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating β 9,683 ratings
266. 
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
by:
John W. Dean
4.06 avg rating β 330 ratings 267. 
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by:
Thomas E. Ricks
4.09 avg rating β 7,790 ratings 267. 
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (Nation Books)
by:
Gore Vidal
3.90 avg rating β 760 ratings 269. 
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
by:
Kathryn J. Edin
3.96 avg rating β 8,642 ratings 270. 
Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate 3.40 avg rating β 20 ratings
271. 
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
by:
Jacob S. Hacker
4.04 avg rating β 1,986 ratings 272. 
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class (Wildavsky Forum Series)
by:
Robert H. Frank
3.71 avg rating β 237 ratings 273. 
Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America
by:
John P. Avlon
3.74 avg rating β 413 ratings 274. 
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
by:
Ted Nace
4.20 avg rating β 176 ratings 275. 
Free for All: Fixing School Food in America (California Studies in Food and Culture, 28) 3.75 avg rating β 214 ratings
277. 
The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home: Political Indictment of US Public Schools
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.37 avg rating β 172 ratings 
279. 
Capitalism for Democrats: Why The Country Needs It Now
by:
Martin Lowy
4.58 avg rating β 19 ratings 279. 
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
by:
Jason Hickel
4.61 avg rating β 3,649 ratings 279. 
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating β 252 ratings 279. 
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
by:
Jody Armour
4.33 avg rating β 63 ratings 279. 
279. 
Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands
by:
Sarah B. Towle
4.80 avg rating β 40 ratings 
289. 
289. 
Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
by:
Decoteau J. Irby
4.32 avg rating β 31 ratings 292. 
Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
by:
Garrison Keillor
3.95 avg rating β 1,401 ratings 292. 
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.76 avg rating β 660 ratings 292. 
The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage 3.33 avg rating β 197 ratings
296. 
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
by:
Jessica Valenti
4.08 avg rating β 8,545 ratings 
296. 
Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective 4.50 avg rating β 10 ratings
