Books By Topic

After clicking on a topic and scrolling to the bottom of the list, choose "older posts" at the bottom right to view more books in that topic. Lists contain fiction and non-fiction.

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absurdity
aging
alienation
American Dream
art
assimilation
class
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consumerism
coping with trauma/loss
creativity
dystopian
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existentialism
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fiction
fiction's role
gender
historical
identity
immigration
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love
media
memoir
memory
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morality
music
mythology
nature/environmentalism
non-fiction
nonconformity
oppression
perception/truth/subjectivity
philosophy
politics
power of language
psychology
race
religion/spirituality
revolution
science (or sci-fi)
search for self
sexuality
social criticism
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time
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Showing posts with label class. Show all posts

The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, American Dream, assimilation, class, family, fiction, gender, historical, identity, love, perception/truth/subjectivity, psychology, race, search for self, social criticism

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: American Dream, class, coping with trauma/loss, historical, identity, justice, non-fiction, nonconformity, oppression, politics, race, sexuality, social criticism

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, art, class, coping with trauma/loss, creativity, fiction, gender, identity, justice, love, mental health, morality, oppression, race, search for self, social criticism

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: class, economics, immigration, justice, nature/environmentalism, non-fiction, politics, social criticism, tech

Deacon King Kong by James McBride (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, alienation, class, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, race

Augustus by John Williams (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: class, fame, family, fiction, historical, justice, morality, philosophy, politics

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: American Dream, assimilation, class, consumerism, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, identity, immigration, justice, perception/truth/subjectivity, politics, race, search for self, social criticism

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, American Dream, class, identity, justice, morality, non-fiction, oppression, politics, race, social criticism

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, class, family, fiction, gender, historical, identity, mental health, perception/truth/subjectivity, search for self

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: class, gender, justice, morality, non-fiction, oppression, politics, race, social criticism

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: class, gender, identity, justice, morality, non-fiction, oppression, politics, race, sexuality, social criticism

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, American Dream, assimilation, class, consumerism, family, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, oppression, race, search for self

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, assimilation, class, colonialism/imperialism, coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, identity, justice, media, nonconformity, race, search for self

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, class, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, love, morality, search for self

Parable of the Sower (FICTION) by Octavia Butler

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower?ac=1&from_search=true

Posted by Mr. Reynolds

Labels: American Dream, class, coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, dystopian, family, fiction, identity, morality, nature/environmentalism, religion/spirituality, social criticism

Ways of Seeing by John Berger (NON-FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2784.Ways_of_Seeing?ac=1&from_search=true

Posted by Mr. Reynolds

Labels: art, class, consumerism, creativity, economics, media, non-fiction, social criticism

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38463.If_Beale_Street_Could_Talk

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, American Dream, class, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, identity, justice, love, morality, oppression, race, social criticism

Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553843-hard-rain-falling

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, class, coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, identity, justice, morality, oppression, search for self, sexuality

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34273236-little-fires-everywhere

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, alienation, American Dream, class, coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, gender, identity, love, morality, race

Stoner by John Williams (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166997.Stoner

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, alienation, American Dream, class, education, existentialism, family, fiction, identity, search for self

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