Books to explain the world (includes repeats from other lists)
1. A Peoples History of The United States – Howard Zinn
2. Letter to a Christain Nation – Sam Harris
3. Moral Politics – George Lakoff
4. Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
5. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
6. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
7. The Road to Hell – Michael Maren
8. A Rumor of War – Phillip Caputo
9. The Brave New World – Aldus Huxley
10. Native Son – Richard Wright
11. Where Men Win Glory – John Krakauer
12. King Leopold’s Ghost – Adam Hochschild
13. Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography – Nelson Mandela
14. Privilege, Power and Difference – Allan Johnson
15. Between Assassinations – Aravind Adiga
16. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
17. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
18. Sunday at the Pool in Kingali – Gil Courtemanche
19. Blackhawk Down – Mark Bowden
20. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Mobutu’s Congo – Michela Wrong
21. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
22. Acts of Faith – Phillip Caputo
23. God is Not Great – Christopher Hitchins
24. The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
25. Germinal – Emil Zola
26. Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
27. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
28. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
29. Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
30. It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
31. The Teapot Dome Scandal – Laton McCartney
32. The Man Who Invented Fidel – Anthony DePalma