The stakes in the 20-21 year (pandemic, election, etc.) will be higher than at any point in my career. Next year, I want to teach books that provoke @CHSJaguars students to think deeply about the world & their place in it. I welcome feedback on this thread about books & teaching.

Mountains Beyond Mountains has pushed so many students to think about a wide range of issues (cultural humility, structural violence, foreign policy, global health, etc.). Thanks to everyone at @PIH for their long-term interest in nurturing my students' interest in the world.

I'm at home and don't have a copy of Just Mercy here but there is no doubt that reading that book & meeting with Bryan Stevenson and his @eji_org colleagues has changed the course of students' lives. While a picture can't fully convey how impactful this book is, this come close.

It takes a gifted author to persuade students to become passionate about an issue that they had rarely spent time thinking about before encountering a book. @just_shelter has written one of the great books of the 21st Century. He & the @evictionlab are incredible.

I was thrilled to watch my students grapple with @bryan_caplan's arguments in favor of open borders. It is a testament to Bryan's clarity and persistence that he persuaded the 98% of students who disagreed with him on the day that we started the book to truly debate his claims.

One of my students' favorite books is @jeremynsmith's Epic Measures. The book follows Chris Murray & his @IHME_UW colleagues and offers a sense of the role that data plays in improving health and a portrait of what can be achieved when a group of people tirelessly pursue a goal.

If you want to start a school year off by discussing culture, medicine, love, and history, how can you do better than Anne Fadiman's majestic, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down?

My students and I were fortunate to read @jonoquick's terrific End of Epidemics a year before the coronavirus pandemic came into our lives and so we had a good sense of what was coming our way.

I adore @RogerThurow's work. Roger is the best writer on food and agriculture who I have encountered and my students have benefited enormously from his books.

Keith Payne's book, The Broken Ladder, explores the psychology of inequality in ways that have proven so helpful to making sense of our political situation. Thanks to Keith for being such a great guy and visiting our class to discuss the book.

In wrapping up this section on books that my students have enjoyed and benefited from, I want to thank @EllenAgler for her terrific book, Under the Big Tree, on neglected tropical diseases and @AnnieLowrey for her great book, Give People Money, on UBI.

It's time to talk about books that I haven't taught. I'll start next year by teaching Nickel Boys or the Underground Railroad by @colsonwhitehead. Both are staggeringly good and could frame our exploration of race and history. If you'd talk to us, we'd be thrilled, Mr. Whitehead.

Here is my favorite economics book from the past year. @RD_Economist has written a superb survey of markets on the margins.

Picking the "best" book from any time period is silly. Still, if you asked me what the best book was that I read in the last 2-3 years, it would be @KieseLaymon's Heavy. I cannot wait to have my students read and write about this book.

Since my students and I live in North Carolina and since @davidzucchino wrote a phenomenal book on the Wilmington coup, this book has to find its way into our class next year.

Here is a book that lives up to the hype! @Isabelwilkerson's Warmth of Other Sons truly is the sort of book that keeps you up until the early hours of the morning. One way or another, this book is finding its way into our class.

The new book by @PenielJoseph does us all a service by helping us to reconsider the ways in which Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. nudged each other in political and philosophical terms. A great book that students need to encounter!

A book that I loved because it consistently refuses to offer easy answers is Deaths of Despair by Anne Case and @DeatonAngus. Thanks to @PrincetonUPress for your incredible generosity in donating copies to our class.

I love everything that @DrIbram writes and I know that my students are hungry for the sort of work that he is doing.

I adored Franchise. @DrMChatelain has written a book that is about race, history, capitalism, McDonald's, and so much more.

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein was a revelation. I thought that I understood redlining but I didn't know the half of it. I'm sure that students will be moved by the book.

In Deep Roots, @maya_sen and her colleagues have written an extraordinary book on slavery's lasting political impacts. I don't know if we can read the whole book but I would love to fit portions of the book into our class.

Thick by @tressiemcphd is deep, funny, and wonderful. I can't wait to read this with students next year.

I want to thank @MrStutts for telling me about @JeanneTheoharis' important book, A More Beautiful and Terrible History. Students are rarely taught this history and I'm eager to see how they make sense of a demythologized history of the civil rights movement.

The new book, American Poison, by  @portereduardo is excellent and will provoke great discussions in class.

I loaned out my copy of Tightrope by  @WuDunn and @NickKristof. So, I don't have a cool photo to share here.  Still, I enjoyed the book immensely and know that my students will as well.