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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
3,030 books — 4,409 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,243 books — 1,764 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,118 books — 1,291 voters
Stone of Hatred by Morgan TakalaThe Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. HallSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovConfessions of an Economic Hit Man by John PerkinsTechno-Cultural Rivalry by Frank Trommler
Underground Knowledge (fiction and nonfiction)
1,496 books — 879 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
1,086 books — 754 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
483 books — 385 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Books for and About Activists
327 books — 315 voters
The House Divided by J.B. ManheimThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
Recommended Political Reads
437 books — 146 voters

Sister Outsider by Audre LordeBlack Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill CollinsAin't I a Woman by bell hooksSister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-PerryFeminist Theory by bell hooks
Black Feminist/Womanist Studies (nonfiction)
132 books — 110 voters
Debt by David GraeberGriftopia by Matt TaibbiA People's History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Big Short by Michael LewisA Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
Occupy Wall Street
87 books — 87 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos CastanedaLakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
1968 - The year that rocked the world (fiction and nonfiction)
249 books — 87 voters
Hunger by Roxane GayHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany HaddishOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderAl Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Trevor Noah's Literary Guests
279 books — 87 voters

L’étrange voyage d’une coccinelle, entre l’Oise et l’Ardenne ... by Annemarie TrekkerThe History of Greenland by Torbjørn YdegaardSaigon Warrior by Al McDonaldBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia Molina
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
208 books — 86 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth GaskellThe Subjection of Women by John Stuart MillThe Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger
Early Feminists
190 books — 81 voters

Migrant Crisis by John SteelV for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
76 books — 69 voters
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
114 books — 68 voters

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol TavrisThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellMade to Stick by Chip HeathThe Struggle for the People’s King by Hajar YazdihaReconceptualizing Disability in Education by Luigi Iannacci
Rhetoric and strategy of social change
527 books — 66 voters
Mind Fields by Julia FultonWrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl WigginsAnxiety by Danny WinterTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl Wiggins
Books that Shift Your Way of thinking
438 books — 54 voters

Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen GedneyPrisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Women's prison memoirs
73 books — 53 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonMaking A Difference by James L. HechtThe Soul Whispers Poetry by Vikki KoplickSacred Animal Activism by Vikki KoplickBorn Free by Joy Adamson
Activist memoirs
190 books — 49 voters

P.O.W.ER by Lisa A. KramerIn Search of the Return by Joshua RaymondMy Brother Jon by Glenn HelgelandI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDeath of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley
Celebrate diversity with these recommended books from One World
22 books — 39 voters
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-GarciaRon's Big Mission by Rose BlueSmoky Night by Eve BuntingSit-In by Andrea Davis PinkneyThe Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Black Lives Matter - Kids!
179 books — 33 voters

Ruthless. Heartless! Loveless. by Holly StarWoody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast by Danny WinterAnxiety by Danny WinterSourdough by Diane Lee MoomeyNo Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
Best Underground-ish Poetry
21 books — 20 voters
A Sense of Urgency by Windle TurleyBitch Planet, Vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnickWonder Woman by Laurie Halse AndersonSuperman Versus The Ku Klux Klan by Rick BowersBlack by Kwanza Osajyefo
Superheroes, Comics, and Social Justice
119 books — 20 voters

Untenrum frei by Margarete StokowskiDer kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen by Alice SchwarzerSprache und Sein by Kübra GümüşayUnsichtbare Frauen by Caroline Criado PérezDie Wand by Marlen Haushofer
Feminismus auf Deutsch
80 books — 16 voters
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonFrom Here to Equality by William A. Darity Jr.The Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorWhat are My emotions Asking of Me? by Christopher Beatton
Books on Reparations by African-Americans
20 books — 16 voters

Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonStony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. BaptistCaste by Isabel WilkersonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Frontline Stereo Podcast
30 books — 14 voters
Campaign Battle by Snapshot SystemsNew Power by Jeremy HeimansBe The Change by Gina MartinGood Guide to Campaigning and Influencing by Brian LambThis Is an Uprising by Mark Engler
Campaign reads
129 books — 9 voters

Strategic Action for Animals by Melanie JoyFor the Prevention of Cruelty by Diane L. BeersStriking at the Roots by Mark HawthorneCulture and Activism by Elizabeth CherryVoices for Animal Liberation by Brittany Michelson
Animal Rights Activism (Non-Fiction)
95 books — 3 voters
Dian Fossey by Diane PhelpsI am Jane Goodall by Brad MeltzerJoan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia ValdezThe Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley MoscaWho Is Temple Grandin? by Patricia Brennan Demuth
Children's Books of Inspiring Women in Zoology
34 books — 2 voters

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