- “Becoming,” by Michelle Obama
- “Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies),” by Jennifer Nash
- “Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood,” by Karina Longworth
- “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side,” by Eve L. Ewing
- “Shout Your Abortion,” edited by Amelia Bonow
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “Educated: A Memoir,” by Tara Westover
- “Asymmetry: A Novel,” by Lisa Halliday
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Everything Under: A Novel,” by Daisy Johnson
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