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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
323 books — 306 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
280 books — 136 voters

Little Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodI Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Nevertheless, She Persisted
321 books — 66 voters
Just Mercy by Bryan StevensonSet the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Rage of Innocence by Kristin Henning
Civil Rights & Law: Then and Now (fiction and nonfiction)
156 books — 63 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
257 books — 54 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-OrtizHouse of Diggs by Marion Orr
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
174 books — 37 voters

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauThe Long Loneliness by Dorothy DayLetter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma GandhiAcross That Bridge by John Lewis
Civil Disobedients
78 books — 19 voters
The Chocolate Touch by Laura FlorandSoaring by Kristen AshleyKnowing the Score by Kat LathamThe Engagement Game by Jenny HolidayClub Shadowlands by Cherise Sinclair
Hope: Romance Heroes and Heroines Working for the Greater Good
35 books — 12 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Trigger by Tim ButcherNight by Elie WieselLord of the Flies by William Golding
War-What Is It Good For?
160 books — 9 voters
American Love Story by Adriana HerreraAmerican Dreamer by Adriana HerreraAmerican Fairytale by Adriana HerreraAmerican Sweethearts by Adriana HerreraThe Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
RomBkLove2020 - Activist MCs 1
36 books — 6 voters

Antuna's Story by Terry BirdgenawL'Histoire de Fourmuna by Terry BirdgenawGirl Meets Boy by Ali SmithA Storm of Swords 2 by George R.R. MartinThe Cows by Dawn O'Porter
Fictional Political Heroines
6 books — 3 voters
Behaving Badly by Isabel WolffLingerie for Felons by Ros BaxterShopaholic and Sister by Sophie Kinsella
Chick Lit With Activist Protagonists
3 books — 2 voters

White Houses by Amy BloomThe Personal Librarian by Marie BenedictRasputin's Daughter by Robert AlexanderAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodSee What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Women Authors, Artists, and Others Fictionalized
52 books — 2 voters
Girl Warriors by Virginia Loh-HaganGirl Leaders by Virginia Loh-HaganGirl Artists by Virginia Loh-HaganGirl Spies by Virginia Loh-HaganGirl Scientists by Virginia Loh-Hagan
History's Yearbook series
8 books — 1 voter

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