Not to be left out ofthe year end “best of” lists, here are a few equity and justice related books and articles that Health & Medicine staff, board, and community have enjoyed reading in 2018:

• Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve Ewing
• Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, by Andrew J. Diamond
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowrey
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, et al.
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, by Jeff Hobbs
• Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill, et al.
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Death Gap by David Ansell
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• The South Side by Natalie Moore
• Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla Silva
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• County by David Ansell
• Hunger by Roxane Gay
• The Family That Built and Empire of Pain: The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts. By Patrick Radden Keefe (article)
• Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis: The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America. By Linda Villarosa (article)
• America’s Health Crisis and the Easterlin Paradox by Jeffery D. Sachs (article)