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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by 
Strangers in Their Own Land: anger and mourning on the American right by 
Hillbilly Elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis by 
Listen, Liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people? by 
The Populist Explosion: : how the great recession transformed American and European politics by 
White Trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America by 
Achieving Our Country: leftist thought in twentieth-century America by Tweeted paragraphs from Rorty's work that sparked a run on the book after the electon:
[M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.
At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. …
One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. … All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.