I Nickle and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich; Fastfood Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser; The Autobiography of Malcom X, Malcom X; Black Boy, Richard Wright; The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou; The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander; In Cold Blood, Truman Capote; How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

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