There has been a wave of essential books and films / documentaries to counter current times. Here are some from 2017.
So You Want to Talk About Race
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In So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal...
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
Women’s March Organizers and Conde Nast
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA...
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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
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Where are you really from? You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in...
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Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands...
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These are some of the most popular choices in the annual survey of book recommendations compiled by Bloomberg:
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and columnist comes a "fiercely funny, powerfully...
Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American...
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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2017 Hisham Matar was 19 when his...
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The Sympathizer
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his...
The Mothers: A Novel
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The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community - and the...
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Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7)
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Alex Cross has never believed in vampires. But when two joggers are found slain in a manner that...
Bloody Valentine
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This year Valentine's Day isn't for romance. It's for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes...
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The Undomestic Goddess
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Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only...
Twenties Girl
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Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in...
The Tennis Party
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It was Patrick's idea that they should have the tennis party. After all, he has the perfect setting...
Sleeping Arrangements
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Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses and her partner is having trouble at...
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The Boy in the Dress
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The sparkling debut children's novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing...
Cross Dressing Trans LGBTQI+ Friendship School Family
Gangsta Granny
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Another hilarious and moving novel from bestselling, critically acclaimed author David Walliams, the...
The World’s Worst Parents
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Sure, some parents are embarrassing – but they’re NOTHING on this lot. These ten tales of the...
The Midnight Gang
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Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of...
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The Washington Post's annual survey of the best books includes 10 they think are exceptionally rewarding:
Sing, Unburied, Sing
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A searing and profound odyssey bringing the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first century...
Saints for All Occasions
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Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland...
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
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The definitive account of Barack Obama’s life before he became the 44th president of the United...
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book...
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Political tell-alls, stunning works of fiction, and jaw-dropping memoirs make up just some of the 2018 titles Entertainment Weekly are looking forward to:
Killing Commendatore
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The novel relates the story of an unnamed 36-year-old portrait artist living in Tokyo. When his...
Lake Success
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When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall...
Clock Dance
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was 11 and her mother...
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
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Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and...
Give Me Your Hand
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Kit has earned her place as a researcher in Doctor Severin’s lab; the fierce competition, the...