The Power Game by Hedrick Smith
True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
The War Within by Bob Woodward
Breakthrough by Gwen Ifill
Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter
1960 by David Pietrusza
Women’s Studies
The Mommy Myth by Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Cunt by Inga Muscio
The Curse: The Cultural History of Menstruation by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton and Emily Toth
Racism/womanism/black women/black men
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
Naked edited by Ayana Byrd and Akiba Solomon
Black Sexual Politics by Patricia Hill Collins
Hair Story by Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps
Is Bill Cosby Right (Or Has The Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind)? by Michael Eric Dyson
The Miseducation of The Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Ain’t I A Woman by bell hooks
Shifting by Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle McGuire
Disintegration: the Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinson
When and Where I Enter by Paula Giddings
Cultural studies/sociology/international relations
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
On The Down Low by J.L. King
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Enlightened Sexism by Susan Douglas
Food Matters by Mark Bittman
Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
50 Facts That Should Change The World by Jessica Williams
By Any Greens Necessary by Tracye McQuirter
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics by Cynthia Enloe
Journalism/media
My Times in Black and White by Gerald M. Boyd
Front Row at the White House by Helen Thomas
So Wrong for So Long by Greg Mitchell
