Best Books of 2016 to Explain Current Politics

by Marc Lamont Hill

Timely, controversial, and bound to stir already heated discussion. Full review >

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by Pamela Haag

A refreshingly unusual approach by an author admirably transparent about why she wrote the book and why she chose to avoid... Full review >

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by Matthew Desmond

This stunning, remarkable book—a scholar’s 21st-century How the Other Half Lives—demands a wide audience. Full review >

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by Thomas L. Friedman

Required reading for a generation that’s “going to be asked to dance in a hurricane.” Full review >

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by J.D. Vance

An unusually timely and deeply affecting view of a social class whose health and economic problems are making headlines in... Full review >

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by Eric Fair

A startling debut from a haunted individual who wishes he had left Iraq earlier “with my soul intact.” Full review >

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by Michael Eric Dyson

Dyson succeeds admirably in creating a base line for future interpretations of this historic presidency. His well-written... Full review >

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by Nancy Jo Sales

For parents with young daughters, this book is an ice-cold, important wake-up call. Full review >

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by Beth Macy

This first-rate journey into human trafficking, slavery, and familial bonding is an engrossing example of spirited,... Full review >

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by David Cay Johnston

Voters ready to pull the trigger one way or another probably won’t be swayed by these revelations, but they are highly... Full review >

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by Gary Younge

Important, deeply affecting, and certain to alarm readers who care about the lives of children in a gun-ridden society. Full review >

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by Ibram X. Kendi

Racism is the enduring scar on the American consciousness. In this ambitious, magisterial book, Kendi reveals just how deep... Full review >

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by Arlie Russell Hochschild

A well-told chronicle of an ambitious sociological project of significant current importance. Full review >

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by David Dayen

An inspiring, well-rendered, deeply reported, and often infuriating account. Full review >

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by Rosa Brooks

Legal theorists and policymakers will approve the scholarship and close analysis; general readers will appreciate the... Full review >

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