Race, gender and identity

Brotopia

“He called it a "historically important book" he hopes will be a catalyst for change in tech.”Bill Gurley

Just Mercy

“On Obama's 2019 year-end list. Stevenson, a lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, uses Walter McMillian's wrongful death-row conviction as the spine of a broader argument about the failures of the American criminal legal system. Obama called it a book that should be required reading.”Barack Obama

The New Jim Crow

“On his list among books on social justice and incarceration.”Sahil Lavingia

Sacred Cows: The Truth About Divorce and Mar

“there's a wonderful book on this topic called Sacred Cows: The Truth About Divorce and Marriage. I recommend checking it out if you find yourself thinking about this.”Andrew Wilkinson

Between the World and Me

“Coates wrote this as an open letter to his teenage son about what it means to inhabit a Black body in America. Obama, still in office when the book appeared in 2015, praised Coates's moral clarity and willingness to refuse comforting narratives about American progress.”Barack Obama

Born a Crime

“On Obama's 2017 year-end list. Noah's account of growing up mixed-race in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa is as much structural history as personal memoir — the crime of the title is that his very existence was illegal under apartheid law.”Barack Obama