Karin Slaughter's 6 favorite social justice books

The best-selling author recommends works by Michelle Alexander, Hallie Rubenhold, and more

Karin Slaughter.
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In Karin Slaughter's new best-seller, The Last Widow, medical researcher Sara Linton and fellow Georgian Will Trent pursue a white supremacist group plotting terror. Below, Slaughter recommends other books that shed light on current social concerns.

American Terrorist by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck (2001).

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