This is it. The uncut, unabridged, uncensored, list of 300 books that I’d LOVE to read in 2018, but likely will only read two of. With any luck, maybe six.
Ordered by highest average Goodreads rating first:
- The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama
- Dictatorship of Capital: Politics and Culture in the 21st Century
- The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change
- The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables
- The Transgender Issue
- trans/formation: A life on both sides of the gender divide
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
- Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon
- Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
- Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures
- In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
- Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Digital Sociologies
- Structures of Judicial Decision Making from Legal Formalism to Critical Theory
- Covering Government: A Civics Handbook for Journalists
- Emotive Language in Argumentation
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics
- Fame and Obscurity
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
- Musashi
- The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
- If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
- Pantheism
- Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
- Ultimate Guide to Local Business Marketing
- The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
- Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity
- Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
- Harry Potter: A History of Magic
- Revolutionary Suicide
- Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy
- Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
- Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
- Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
- No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
- Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs
- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
- Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
- We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
- Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to Transform Our Food System
- Postposttransexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
- Matilda
- Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy
- The Transgender Studies Reader
- Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
- Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
- With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
- Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism
- Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam
- And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice
- Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
- Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
- Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement
- Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
- Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals
- Transgender Rights
- How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
- Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
- Sex and Social Justice
- Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
- The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind
- Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
- The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Cat’s Cradle
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- Crow After Roe: How “Separate But Equal” Has Become the New Standard in Women’s Health and How We Can Change That
- Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990
- Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose
- Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
- Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
- Associated Press Guide to News Writing: The Resource for Professional Journalists
- Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise and Other Bribes
- No Exit
- The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard
- Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
- Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
- The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
- The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
- A Primer of Libertarian Education
- Sappho Is Burning
- The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
- The Unkillable Kitty O’Kane
- Confronting Authority:Reflections of an Ardent Protestor
- No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Nevada
- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
- The Language of News Media
- The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week
- The New Journalism
- The Fall
- In Cold Blood
- Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
- The New New Journalism: Conversations with the Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
- Transgender History
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
- Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs
- Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
- America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
- Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
- The Lives of Transgender People
- Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come
- Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- Fear and Trembling
- Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship: Towards a Politics of Difference
- The Universal Journalist
- Working as a Journalist
- The Reuters Handbook for Journalists
- Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
- Writing for Broadcast Journalists
- The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
- Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
- Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
- Boys Like Her: Transfictions
- How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
- Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline
- One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
- Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies that Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- Mcnae’s Essential Law for Journalists
- The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
- The Jargon of Authenticity
- Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System
- The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
- The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
- The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies – and What They Have Done to Us
- Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology
- Chicken Soup for the Soul
- Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
- The Politics of Aesthetics
- Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System
- Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
- The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
- Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works
- Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender
- A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations
- Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
- Men Explain Things to Me
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders
- Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
- Nausea
- What Every Person Should Know About War
- The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
- Transgender Explained for Those Who Are Not
- In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies and Subcultural Lives
- Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
- Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
- Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
- The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story from Egypt to EBook
- Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
- Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity
- Why not Me?
- Practical Strategies for Technical Communication
- The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for the New Era
- Wall and Piece
- Global Climate Change and U.S. Law
- The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
- Managing the Mental Game: How to Think More Effectively, Navigate Uncertainty, and Build Mental Fortitude
- No War
- One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
- In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence
- The Story of English in 100 Words
- The Fine Line
- Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Scoop
- Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
- Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
- Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
- What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
- The Dip: A Little Book that Teaches You When to Quit
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
- Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
- With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
- The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story
- Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
- Feminism and Linguistic Theory
- Power and Politeness in the Workplace: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Talk at Work
- Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
- The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution
- Here Comes Everybody; The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
- Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- Adultolescence
- The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again
- Everything I Never Told You
- The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
- Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War
- Post-Democracy: A Sociological Introduction
- The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America
- Writing About Art
- Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy
- Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet’s Ace Reporter
- Transgender Nation
- Food Rebellions!: Forging Food Sovereignty to Solve the Global Food Crisis
- How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter
- MAsters of the Universe: NATO’s Balkan Crusade
- 24 Hours in Journalism
- The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations & Books
- The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
- No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
- Fascinate: Unlocking the Secret Triggers of Influence, Persuasion, and Captivation
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
- Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders
- State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
- Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations
- Mindwatching: Why We Behave the Way We Do
- 100 Deadly Skills: The Seal Operative’s Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation
- Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World
- Wishful Drinking
- Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult, and Imitation in American Popular Culture
- Trans-Sister Radio
- How to Be a Woman
- When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- The Jungle
- The Man Who Quit Money
- As I Lay Dying
- Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
- I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
- It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree
- The Alchemy of Finance
- The Satanic Verses
- I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
- Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India
- Holding Still for as Long as Possible
- Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
- Audition: A Memoir
- Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
- Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload
- Finnegans Wake
- The Activists’ Handbook: A step-by-step guide to participatory democracy
- Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
- War Reporting for Cowards
- But What If We’re Wrong? Thinking About the Present as if It Were the Past
- Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary
- The Worrier’s Guide to Life
- Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
- Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
- Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
- Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism
- Law Made Fun through Harry Potter’s Adventures: 99 Lessons in Law from the Wizarding World for Fans of All Ages
- Conglomerates and the Media
- Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
- Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
- What Happens When We Die?: A Groundbreaking Study into the Nature of Life and Death
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
- The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism
- Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity
- Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy Seal’s Journey to Coming Out Transgender
- The Art of Always Being Right
- The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
- Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
- Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
- Supermedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World
- Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times
- Myra Breckinridge
- The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
- The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered
- The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
- Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
- Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life
- An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture
- Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America
- Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
- Covering the Courts: A Handbook for Journalists
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
- Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
- How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All – And Then Some!
- Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media
- The You in Journalism: A Handbook for Journalists
- The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
- The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was It Beneficial for Workers?
- Working with Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists
- A Reference Guide to Journalism: Areas, Genres, Social Impact, News Media, Roles, and more
- Covering Politics: A Handbook for Journalists