The Life Argotic

• White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
• Where Do We Go From Here – Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X. as told by Alex Haley – Alex Haley
• My Grandmother’s Hands – Resmaa Menakem
• White Rage – Carol Anderson
• The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
• Stamped From The Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi
• How To Be Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? – Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Between The World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Choice We Face: How Segregation, Race, and Power Have Shaped America’s Most Controversial Education Reform Movement – Jon Hale
• The Education of Blacks in the South 1860-1935 – James D. Anderson
• Black Majority – Peter H. Wood
• Half-American – Matthew Delmont 
• Born in Blackness – Howard W. French
• Faces at The Bottom of The Well – Derrick Bell

Indigenous Lives

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
• Rez Life – David Treuer
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History Of The United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• 1491 – Charles C. Mann
• 1493 – Charles C. Mann
• Lakota Woman – Mary Crow Dog
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee – David Treuer
• Sharks in The Time of Saviors – Kawai Strong Washburn 
• The Seed Keeper – Diane Wilson 
• This Land is Their Land – David Silverman 

Chicanx / Latinx Lives

• The Devil’s Highway – Luis Alberto Urrea
• Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 – Mirelsie Velázquez

Feminism / Womanism

• Sweetwater – Robin M. Boylorn
• Feminism Without Borders – Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• A History Of U.S. Feminism – Rory Dicker
• Girls To The Front – Sara Marcus

Military

• Tribe – Sebastian Junger
• With The Old Breed – E.B. Sledge

Trauma

• The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog – Perry & Szalavitz

Education

Language

• The Horse, The Wheel, and Language – David Anthony
• The Riddle of the Labyrinth – Margalit Fox
• Constructing A Language – Michael Tomasello
• Language, Capitalism, Colonialism Toward A Critical History – Monica Heller, Bonnie McElhinny

LGBTQ+

• And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida’s Purge of Lesbian and Gay Teachers  – Karen Graves

• A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
• Lies My Teacher Told Me – James W. Loewen
• The Second – Carol Anderson
• King Leopold’s Ghost – Adam Hochschild
• The Black Count – Tom Reiss
• The Demon of Unrest – Erik Larson 
  • In fact, all things Erik Larson
• The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome – J. Edward Watts
• How to Hide an Empire – Daniel Immerwahr
• Robert E. Lee and Me – Ty Seidule 

Poverty, Class, and SES

• Poverty, By America – Matthew Desmond
• Cobalt Red – Siddharth Kara 
• White Trash – Nancy Isenberg