The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of ChangeRead about another title on the list.Rebecca Solnit
Few writers have done more to help readers understand the hidden rhythms of social change than Rebecca Solnit. In this sequel to her influential Hope in the Dark, she surveys decades of political, cultural, and scientific transformation to argue that change is not only possible but already underway. The result is a bracing meditation on collective action, interconnection, and the long arc of progress—what the Los Angeles Times calls “an urgent manifesto for our tumultuous time.”
--Marshal Zeringue



