A sort-of running list of what I’m reading
2018

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, Robert Caro
• Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang
• Big Lights, Bright City, Jay McInerney
• To Build a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terr
• Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks
• Swing Time, Zadie Smith
• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, Patrick Sharkey
• The Blood of Emmett Till, Timothy B. Tyson
• Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, Mitchell Duneier
• How to Kill a City, Peter Moskowitz
• A Colony in a Nation, Chris Hayes

2017

• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman Jr.
• The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman
• We Were Eight Years in Power, Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Rebel Cities, David Harvey
• Stuck in Place, Patrick Sharkey
• Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon
• Family Properties, Beryl Satter
• Black Wealth / White Wealth, Melvin L. Oliver
• The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
• American Apartheid, Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton
• The Origins of the New Urban Crisis, Thomas Sugrue
• The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
• Crabgrass Frontier, Kenneth T. Jackson
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
• Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
• White Teeth, Zadie Smith
• Sula, Toni Morrison
• Modern Housing for America, Gail Radford
• Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
• The Great Rent Wars, Robert M. Fogelson
• Fear City, Kim Phillips-Fein
• The New Urban Crisis, Richard Florida
• Evicted, Matthew Desmond
• The Truly Disadvantaged, William Julius Wilson
• The South Side, Natalie Y. Moore
• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander