2020 Election Reading List for Adults

90 Books Found

  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States

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  • Alone Together

    Full Title: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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  • America for Americans

    Full Title: America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
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  • American Prison

    Full Title: American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
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  • An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

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  • Another Day in the Death of America

    Full Title: Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
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  • Antisocial

    Full Title: Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
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  • As Long as Grass Grows

    Full Title: As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock
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  • Automating Inequality

    Full Title: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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  • Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace

    Full Title: Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890–1940
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  • Beaten Down, Worked Up

    Full Title: Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
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  • Begin Again

    Full Title: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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  • Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

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  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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  • Charged

    Full Title: Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
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  • Citizen: An American Lyric

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  • Clear & Present Safety

    Full Title: Clear & Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans
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  • Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science

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  • Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

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  • The Color of Law

    Full Title: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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  • Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education

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  • Dark Money

    Full Title: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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  • Defining Democracy

    Full Title: Defining Democracy: Electoral Reform and the Struggle for Power in New York City
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  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

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  • Drawing the Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Voting in America

    Illustrated by Kati Lacker
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  • The End of Ice

    Full Title: The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
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  • The Far Away Brothers

    Full title: The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
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  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

    By Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry & Minyon Moore with Veronica Chambers
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  • Fraud of the Century

    Full Title: Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
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  • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

    Full Title: From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
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  • Give Us the Ballot

    Full Title: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
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  • Going Stealth

    Full Title: Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
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  • Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

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  • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

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  • Heavy: An American Memoir

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  • The Heritage

    Full Title: The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
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  • The Hidden History of the War on Voting

    Full Title: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote—and How to Get It Back
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  • His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

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  • How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

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  • Human Targets

    Full Title: Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
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  • In a Day's Work

    Full Title: In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers
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  • Janesville: An American Story

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  • Know My Name: A Memoir

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  • Latino America

    Full Title: Latino America: How America's Most Dynamic Population Is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation
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  • Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture

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  • Let the People Pick the President

    Full Title: Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
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  • Lost in the USA

    Full Title: Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March
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  • The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

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  • The Most Dangerous Branch

    Full Title: The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump
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  • Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

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  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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  • No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants

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  • Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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  • On Account of Race

    Full Title: On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
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  • One Person, No Vote

    Full Title: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
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  • Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

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  • Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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  • Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

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  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays

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  • A People's Art History of the United States

    Full Title: A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements
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  • The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

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  • Political Junkies

    Full Title: Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy
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  • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

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  • Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

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  • Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment

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  • Republic of Lies

    Full Title: Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
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  • The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

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  • Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border

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  • Say It Louder!

    Full Title: Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy
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  • The Schoolhouse Gate

    Full Title: The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
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  • See Jane Win

    Full Title: See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics
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  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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  • Stamped from the Beginning

    Full Title: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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  • Strangers in Their Own Land

    Full Title: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right—A Journey to the Heart of Our Political Divide
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  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    Full Title: Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
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  • Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

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  • A Terrible Thing to Waste

    Full Title: A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
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  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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  • Tomorrow Will Be Different

    Full Title: Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
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  • Unapologetic

    Full Title: Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
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  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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  • Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy

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  • Vanguard

    Full Title: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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  • We Too Sing America

    Full Title: We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
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  • We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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  • What You Should Know About Politics... But Don't

    Full Title: What You Should Know About Politics… But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues that Matter
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  • What's the Matter with Kansas?

    Full Title: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
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  • Where We Live: A Benefit for the Survivors in Las Vegas

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  • Why We're Polarized

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  • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

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