Anne Applebaum: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.

William J. Dobson, Tarek Masoud, Christopher Walker (editors): Defending Democracy in an Age of Sharp Power.

Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer: Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974.

Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer (editors): Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past.

Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt:

• How Democracies Die.
• Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point.

Jan-Werner Müller: Democracy Rules.

Heather Cox Richardson: Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.

Timothy Snyder:

• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
• On Freedom.

Jason Stanley: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.

Astra Taylor: Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone.