The new (to me) books I read this year and really liked.
These are the books I read and really liked this year. The links are all to Hardcover, a smaller book managing app that IMO is better than Goodreads. I could go into how terrible Goodreads became after the Amazon buyout but let’s just say it’s not great. So I’ve been giving Hardcover a try and I’m really liking it. If you are looking for a way to track your reading, I’d suggest chekcing it out.
###📖Top Books📖
A Guest in the House of Hip Hop by Mickey Hess - Link
💬Probably one of the best books about loving Hip-Hop culture without gentrifying it
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot - Link
💬A heartbreaking story about growing up Native in this world and all the issues that can come with it
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi - Link
💬I feel like I should have read this years ago but it’s 100% worth it if you are serious about being an ally, and serious about saying something rather than staying silent
Why we’re Polarized by Ezra Klein - Link
💬I’m an Ezra fan since his days running Vox and this book is a great dive into what make us so susceptible to the fracturing of American political culture
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale - Link
💬A great investigation into how policing works and doesn’t, everyone thinks this book is about abolishing the police system but really it’s about tearing down the police state.
Honorable Mentions
Northern Light by Kazim Ali
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
How to Fight Anti-semitism by Bari Weiss
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky,Daniel Ziblatt
Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin