The end of the year is upon us, which means that between the shopping, cooking, decorating, and parties, we're also hustling to get through that "to read" stack of books sitting tauntingly by our bedside. Yet even as we page through the backlog of delayed beach reads and best of the year that squeaked in under the wire, our minds are also turning toward the exciting new stories heading our way in the new year. Here, a selection of some of the lit we're adding to our 2018 list.
The Establishment editor-at-large Oluo crafts a straightforward guidebook to the nuances of conversations surrounding race in America, with topics ranging from white supremacy and Black Lives Matter to the “N” word. Read it, then recommend it to everyone you know. —Julie Kosin
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, £20 on amazon.com on January 16.
