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Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Citizen weaves essays, images, and poetry together to examine the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer meditations on the violence – whether linguistic or physical – that has impacted on the lives of Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Mark Duggan, and the author herself.
Suggested by @ingridmatts.
Penguin Poetry
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
As she showed with her bestselling books No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, Klein is unafraid of going after Big Ideas. This Changes Everything is about changing the world before the world itself changes so drastically that no one is safe. Klein holds up the links between the global economy and climate change and urges a rethink on all fronts if we are to make it. Either we leap – or we sink.
Recommended by @_SuperHugh.
Penguin
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Comedian, actor, producer, and general delight Amy Poehler has followed in the steps of her onscreen collaborator Tina Fey with this offering. Yes Please is a mishmash of things: part-memoir, part-self-help manual, often a how-to manual. It's also very sweet, with vignettes from Poehler (and her parents!) about life, career, parenthood, divorce, and everything else she can think of.
Suggested by literally everyone.
Picador
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