At the end of each semester, I recommend a list of 100 books for students read in order to better understand what’s happening within the country and world in which we live. This list for the spring of 2019 isn't meant to be definitive. I welcome suggestions.

1.Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
2.Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
3.The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

4.Fantasyland: How American Went Haywire: A 500 Year History by Kurt Andersen
5.White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
http://6.One  Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

7.The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
8.Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
9.American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer

10.Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement in Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
11.The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
12.The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

13.Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall and Those Fighting to Reverse It by Stephen Brill
14.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
15.Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
16.Hollowing Out the Middle by Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas

17.What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
18.Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
19.Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
20.Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

21.We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
22.The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream by Tyler Cowen
23.Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason by William Davies

24.Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
25.White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
26.Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows

27.War On Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
28.The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
29.Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History by Eric Foner

30.Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
31.Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
32.The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen

33.The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time by Brooke Gladstone
34.The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
35.Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen

36.21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
37.The Power of the Powerless by Vaclan Havel
38.A Colony In A Nation by Chris Hayes
39.America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
40.Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges

41.The Rhetoric of Reaction by Albert O. Hirschman
42.Strangers In Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
43.The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
44.Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

45.Feminism is For Everybody by bell hooks
46.The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
47.White Trash: The 400 Year History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
http://48.Direct  Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism by L.A. Kauffman

49.Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
50.The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior
51.This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

52.The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
http://53.One  Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse
http://54.In  the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
55.These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore

56. Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitan
57. How Democracies Die by Steven Levistsky and Daniel Ziblatt
58. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Henry Lopez

59.The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce
60.Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drup Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
61.Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
62.Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

63.Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
64.Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
65.The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz

66. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump nd The Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
67. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Thomas M. Nichols
68. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

69.1984 by George Orwell
70.“Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (essay)
71.The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
72.The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne

73.White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out by Christopher Picciolini
http://74.Capital  in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
75.Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev

76.Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse In the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
77.Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate by Zoe Quinn
78.Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich

79.The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
80.Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of A Former White Nationalist by Eli Sasklow
81.The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shire

82.Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith
83.On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
84.The Road to Unfreedom: Russian, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder

85. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
86. The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic by Ganesh Sitaraman
87. Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit

88. #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media by Cass R. Sunstein
89.I Can’t Breathe: A Killing On Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
90.The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi

91.Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism In America by Vegas Tenold
92.Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
93.Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidyanathan

94.The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
95.Alt Right: From 4 Chan to the White House by Mike Wendling
96.White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams

97.We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
98.Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin

99.The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
100.Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg

And Some Classics…
1.Politics by Aristotle
2.Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
3.Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
4.Two Treatise on Government by John Locke
5.The Prince by Machiavelli
6.Republic by Plato
7.Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville