• The best books on race and policing
• The best underrated YA books with disability and/or mental health rep
• The best books for young readers about the growing up Black in the United States
• The best books for ruining a good night’s sleep
• The best books for understanding why both liberal and conservative takes on the police miss the real problem
• The best science fiction short story collections
• The best books to understand the South’s best gift to the world – the Civil Rights Movement
• The best books about justice in America that will terrify you
• The best epistolary books written from the gut
• The best anger-inducing non-fiction books on women and the criminal legal system
• The best non-traditional books about survival
• The best teen books about sports (and so much more)
• The best fantasy books to bring magic and the supernatural to familiar worlds