Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks

 

This was fascinating and depressing.

Tell Me Lies by J. P. Pomare

 

This was very clever -- it's an interesting read.

What the F by Benjamin K. Bergen

 

This was fascinating and hilarious in general, although I thought the author should have been a bit more circumspect about how he treated slurs.

The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water by Erin Bartels

 

This was really clever and interesting, on many levels. It would be a great choice for book groups.

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Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

 

This is one of those books that everyone should read.

Do You Follow? by J. C. Bidonde

 

You know, this might strike some readers as way to Byzantine, but I thought it was clever and well done.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

 

Some important ideas, some debatable ideas, some dated ideas.

Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

 

Super-interesting and very readable.

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

 

I didn't love this. It just seemed implausible and yet also predictable.

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The End of Genetics by David B. Goldstein

 

If you haven't read anything about recent advances in genetics and their implications, this is a good choice. But if you've read a few books on the topic, this won't break any new ground.

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The Ministry of Bodies by Seamus O'Mahoney

 

"I will make a list of everything that irritated me over my entire career and then publish it, with no transitions or overarching narratives, even if it makes me look like a grumpy old person who can't fathom change."

The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

 

Way too Byzantine.

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

So of course I had to read the second volume. It was decent.

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

 

A good story, but I'm not sure how I feel about a mystery that is not solved by the end of the book -- not in some clever post-modern way, but just to set up the sequel.

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

 

This is one of those books everyone should read. While there's certainly room to dispute some specifics, the kind of criticism that this book has received leaves me baffled.

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

 

Good, but didn't quite live up to the hype.

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

 

meh

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

 

I mean, kind of silly, but also kind of fun.

Crying in HMart by Michelle Zauner

 

This was decent, but not perhaps worthy of all of the critical acclaim.

The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

 

This was so well done and interesting. It would be a great choice for book groups.