Books By Topic

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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

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328854.Motherless_Brooklyn

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, fiction, identity, justice, morality, nonconformity, perception/truth/subjectivity, power of language, search for self

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: assimilation, colonialism/imperialism, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, historical, identity, justice, love, morality, nonconformity, oppression, politics, race, social criticism

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, nonconformity, oppression, race, search for self

Bewilderment by Richard Powers (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, justice, love, memory, mental health, morality, nature/environmentalism, nonconformity, science (or sci-fi), social criticism, tech

Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: art, creativity, identity, music, non-fiction, nonconformity, race, social criticism

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

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: absurdity, alienation, consumerism, identity, mental health, non-fiction, nonconformity, perception/truth/subjectivity, philosophy, psychology, religion/spirituality, search for self

The Overstory by Richard Powers (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180098-the-overstory

Posted by Mr. Reynolds

Labels: American Dream, art, consumerism, economics, fiction, fiction's role, nature/environmentalism, nonconformity, power of language, time

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76173.We

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, dystopian, fiction, identity, love, mental health, nonconformity, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, philosophy, politics, science (or sci-fi), search for self, social criticism, tech

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11371.It_Can_t_Happen_Here

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: dystopian, fiction, historical, justice, media, morality, nonconformity, oppression, politics, social criticism

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30688435-exit-west

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, assimilation, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, identity, immigration, justice, love, nonconformity, oppression, revolution, search for self, war

Indignation by Philip Roth (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6953335-indignation

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, American Dream, assimilation, class, coming of age, education, family, fiction, identity, love, morality, nonconformity, search for self

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25330108-freedom-is-a-constant-struggle

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: assimilation, class, colonialism/imperialism, economics, gender, justice, morality, non-fiction, nonconformity, oppression, politics, race, revolution, social criticism

The Nix by Nathan Hill (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28251002-the-nix

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: family, fiction, identity, love, memory, nonconformity, perception/truth/subjectivity, politics, search for self

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith (NON-FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195970-invisible-man-got-the-whole-world-watching

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coping with trauma/loss, education, gender, identity, justice, media, memoir, mental health, morality, non-fiction, nonconformity, oppression, politics, race, search for self, sexuality, social criticism

The Girls by Emma Cline (FICTION)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26893819-the-girls

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, coming of age, fiction, gender, identity, mental health, nonconformity, psychology, search for self, sexuality

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608287.Jesus_Son

Posted by Mr. Reynolds

Labels: absurdity, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, identity, mental health, nonconformity, perception/truth/subjectivity, religion/spirituality, search for self

Animal Farm by George Orwell (FICTION)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7613.Animal_Farm?ac=1&from_search=true

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: class, dystopian, fiction, identity, justice, nonconformity, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, philosophy, politics, revolution, social criticism

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever edited by Christopher Hitchens (NON-FICTION)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1566053.The_Portable_Atheist?from_search=true&search_version=service

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: morality, mythology, non-fiction, nonconformity, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, philosophy, politics, religion/spirituality, search for self, social criticism

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