Nonfiction

Athena Aktipis, A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times: ( cursing and prepping )

Sarah Hook, Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law: The Death of the Transformative Author: ( a non-American against moral rights )

Andrea Long Chu, Authority: Essays: ( not here to make friends )

Tom Segev, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East: ( tragedy )

Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918: ( also tragedy )

Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right: ( alt-right sf readers )

Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form: ( what's a gimmick for? )

Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism: ( the book Meta didn't want you to read )

William Neuman, Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela: ( where we might be heading )

Omar el Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: ( justified rage and walking away )