
#1 ON TYRANNY
Timothy Snyder
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.
On the bestsellers list for 78 weeks

#2 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
Bessel van der Kolk
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
On the bestsellers list for 116 weeks

#3 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
On the bestsellers list for 39 weeks

#4 WHITE FRAGILITY
Robin DiAngelo
Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits cross-racial dialogue.
On the bestsellers list for 123 weeks

#5 HILLBILLY ELEGY
JD Vance
A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.
On the bestsellers list for 62 weeks

#6 MY OWN WORDS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W Williams
A collection of articles and speeches by the Supreme Court justice.
On the bestsellers list for 25 weeks

#7 SAPIENS
Yuval Noah Harari
How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.
On the bestsellers list for 126 weeks

#8 JUST MERCY
Bryan Stevenson
A civil rights lawyer and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
On the bestsellers list for 236 weeks

#9 BORN A CRIME
Trevor Noah
A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the host of “The Daily Show.”
On the bestsellers list for 100 weeks

#10 LEAD FROM THE OUTSIDE
Stacey Abrams
A memoir by the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives who ran to be the state’s governor in 2018.
On the bestsellers list for 10 weeks

#11 THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
Isabel Wilkerson
An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South.
On the bestsellers list for 54 weeks
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#12 THE NEW JIM CROW
Michelle Alexander
A law professor on the “war on drugs” and its role in the disproportionate incarceration of Black men.
On the bestsellers list for 216 weeks

#13 SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE
Ijeoma Oluo
A look at the contemporary racial landscape of the United States.
On the bestsellers list for 27 weeks

#14 THE COLOR OF LAW
Richard Rothstein
A case for how the American government abetted racial segregation in metropolitan areas across the country.
On the bestsellers list for 35 weeks

#15 THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
Daniel Kahneman
When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.
On the bestsellers list for 260 weeks
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