Hardcover Political Books
🥇 01
KILLING THE RISING SUN
🖋️ Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
🏢 Holt
The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II.
🥈 02
HILLBILLY ELEGY
🖋️ JD Vance
🏢 HarperCollins
A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his own childhood in the Rust Belt.
🥉 03
SETTLE FOR MORE
🖋️ Megyn Kelly
🏢 Harper/HarperCollins
The anchor of Fox News’s “The Kelly File” discusses why she left a succesful career as a lawyer, the value of hard work, the personal and professional challenges she has faced.
04
THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE
🖋️ Thomas L Friedman
🏢 Farrar, Straus & Giroux
How the accelerating pace of technology, globalization and climate change are reshaping the world, and what we can do about it.
05
ALL THE GALLANT MEN
🖋️ Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
🏢 Morrow
An eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor by a 94-year-old veteran.
06
OUR REVOLUTION
🖋️ Bernie Sanders
🏢 Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s
The Vermont senator and former candidate for the Democratic nomination for president delivers his message of social and economic justice.
07
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
🖋️ Ta-Nehisi Coates
🏢 Spiegel & Grau
A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by the national correspondent of The Atlantic, framed as a letter to his teenage son.
08
WHITE TRASH
🖋️ Nancy Isenberg
🏢 Viking
The role of the white poor in American history.
09
THE NEW JIM CROW
🖋️ Michelle Alexander
🏢 New Press
A law professor takes aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men. Originally published in 2010.
10
JUST MERCY
🖋️ Bryan Stevenson
🏢 Spiegel & Grau
A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.