The Best Books: Big Ideas
Continuing on my “best books” recommendations path, I thought I would suggest some books that revolutionized the way the world works.
Of course, this is not the definitive list, but here are my suggestions.
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Elements of Style by William Strunk
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Freedman
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader by Ida B Wells
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The Bible, The Torah, and The Quran