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Harvesting Hope by Kathleen KrullWhole Whale by Karen YinClick, Clack, Moo by Doreen CroninAnd Tango Makes Three by Justin RichardsonThe Beginner's Guide to Winning an Election by Michael R. French
Growing Future Activists
224 books — 146 voters
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
286 books — 142 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Children of Men by P.D. JamesThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperHerland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dystopias with gender- or religion-specific phobics
199 books — 91 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
99 books — 61 voters

V for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
73 books — 57 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiMy Life on the Road by Gloria SteinemInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliBecoming by Michelle ObamaMy Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Feminist Memoirs
267 books — 56 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'AgostinoMaking A Difference by James L. HechtThe Soul Whispers Poetry by Vikki KoplickSacred Animal Activism by Vikki Koplick
Activist memoirs
184 books — 48 voters
The Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningN*gga Theory by Jody ArmourThe Struggle for the People’s King by Hajar YazdihaThe Assignment by Liza M. WiemerBuses Are a Comin' by Charles Person
Books to Empower Social Activism
39 books — 42 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaAnd a Voice to Sing With by Joan BaezOutlaw Woman by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
176 books — 41 voters
On the Beach by Nevil ShuteThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankThe 40 Minute War by Janet E. MorrisSwan Song by Robert McCammon
Fictional Books About Nuclear War
23 books — 30 voters

The Secret Man by Bob WoodwardThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnStayin’ Alive by Jefferson R. CowieGame, Set, Match by Susan WareThe Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's by Steven Lee Beeber
The 1970s in the United States (nonfiction)
231 books — 24 voters
Us by Sarina BowenAmerican Fairytale by Adriana HerreraAn Extraordinary Union by Alyssa ColeThe Suffragette Scandal by Courtney MilanThe Duchess War by Courtney Milan
Change Makers in Romance Novels
102 books — 18 voters

I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiUntil We Are Free by Shirin EbadiThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinWe Also Made History by Urmila PawarDo Justice by Kristi Burton Brown
Feminist activists and activism
73 books — 9 voters
Prejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'AgostinoFrom 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 PastorReparations by Duke L. Kwon
Books on Reparations by African-Americans
8 books — 7 voters

Educated by Tara WestoverRust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne JolieRedefining Realness by Janet MockLove's Cauldron by Jennifer J. LehrPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino
Memoirs like "Unschooled"
14 books — 6 voters
Prejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'AgostinoStony 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
20 books — 6 voters

Leftover Women by Leta Hong FincherThe Birth of Chinese Feminism by He ZhenPirate Queens by Leigh LewisMistletoe by Richard K. AlisonBetraying Big Brother by Leta Hong Fincher
Feminism in China
15 books — 4 voters
The Little Book of Little Activists by Penguin BooksElsie Mae Has Something to Say by Nancy J. CavanaughHere We Are by Kelly JensenResisters by Lauren SharkeyPeaceful Fights for Equal Rights by Rob Sanders
Books For and About Young Activists
38 books — 4 voters

To Live Freely in This World by Chi Adanna MgbakoThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'AgostinoHustling Verse by Amber DawnMarvellous Grounds by Jin Haritaworn
Books at The Sex Workers' Pop-Up
33 books — 3 voters
Recipes for Change by Michael PlattMichaels Desserts by Michael C. PlattCooking Up Change by Michael PlattJustice of the Pies by Maya-Camille BroussardThe Antiracist Kitchen by Ainara Alleyne
Baking and Crafting as Resistance
40 books — 1 voter

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