Unlike presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush, Donald Trump isn’t much of a reader. According to the Washington Post, Trump believes he doesn’t need to read to make highly informed decisions. Instead, he reaches conclusions through “very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.”

As the Post argues, reading isn’t necessarily a marker of how effective a leader someone will be. But perhaps if Trump found some time in his busy schedule to crack open a book, it’d lead him to some truly enlightened thinking.

As we come to grips with a Trump presidency, Haymarket Books has put together a reading list that should be required for everyone. For 15 years, Haymarket has dedicated itself to publishing books about social justice and our current landscape. “Authors are coming to us because they know that we’re one of the best places to be if [they] are trying to publish a book about social justice,” publicity director Jim Plank said to Publisher’s Weekly.

Though books can’t change the world on their own, Haymarket looked through it’s catalog to find books about systemic racism, hope in tumultuous times, and people who have changed the world. Here are 16 books to understand how Trump got elected, how we got to this point, and how we can organize for the future: