For his bookshop and website One Grand Books, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they’d take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. The next in the series is the activist and author Gloria Steinem, who shares her list exclusively with T. She adds: “If I were marooned on a desert island, I would want a book on edible plants and building a raft, but here are 10 I would choose for the pleasure of big and new understandings.”

“The Mermaid and the Minotaur,” Dorothy Dinnerstein

In a migratory past when both men and women raised children, men developed empathy, patience, attention to detail and a sense of the value of life; all qualities now wrongly called “feminine.” Dinnerstein will convince you that men again raising children is the key to world peace.

“Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist

By traveling in Africa while also learning from hundreds of books stored in his computer, Lindqvist shows us that racism was invented to justify colonialism. Racism came home to Europe as the Holocaust.