2026 Reading Challenge

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Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichKitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainAll Creatures Great and Small by James HerriotLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren HoughAll Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs
818 books — 407 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao WangMaid by Stephanie LandThe Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Books on Poverty and Inequality
218 books — 117 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 GuinSleep State Interrupt (1) by T.C. Weber
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
70 books — 49 voters
This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinWork, Health, and Environment by Charles LevensteinTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsAt the Point of Production by Charles Levenstein
Work, Health and Environment
96 books — 39 voters

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchTriangle by David von DrehleUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
56 books — 37 voters
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi
Textile Mill Fiction
105 books — 32 voters

FDR by Jean Edward SmithNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns GoodwinTraitor to His Class by H.W. BrandsThe Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Reading List (nonfiction)
137 books — 31 voters
Orphan Train by Christina Baker KlineGirl in Translation by Jean KwokOliver Twist by Charles DickensLyddie by Katherine PatersonA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sweatshops & Child Labor
219 books — 26 voters

Oliver Twist by Charles DickensThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian AndersenA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettHoles by Louis SacharNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Child Labour
67 books — 25 voters
Upstairs at the White House by J.B. WestThe Residence by Kate Andersen BrowerSpeaking for Myself by Sarah Huckabee SandersAll the Presidents' Pastries by Roland MesnierInside the White House by Ronald Kessler
The Executive Mansion: Life and Work Inside the White House (nonfiction)
89 books — 24 voters

Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Mythologies by Roland BarthesThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter BenjaminCulture and Society, 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
Critique of cultural studies from within.
109 books — 18 voters
The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiOvercome by M.E. ReachThe Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay StanierIt's Not Burnout It's Betrayal by Lora CheadleThe Chrysalis Caretaker by David P. Smith MD
Books That Inspired #BettingOnYou
25 books — 16 voters

The Lost Promise by Ellen SchreckerIke and McCarthy by David A. NicholsHazel Scott by Karen ChiltonMy Red Blood by Alix DobkinNaming Names by Victor S. Navasky
The Red Scares and McCarthyism (nonfiction)
172 books — 7 voters
The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottMrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy WinnUnravelling by Elizabeth GraverCall the Darkness Light by Nancy ZaroulisLyddie by Katherine Paterson
Lowell Mills
55 books — 6 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. AmbedkarThe Untouchables by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
95 books — 6 voters
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonJamestown by Joyce CrawfordHoliday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Zoë FrançoisCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonThe Cry of the Street by Mabel Farnum
Bread and Roses
14 books — 5 voters

A Superior Man by Paul YeeThe Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre BoulleFantasmas del Oriente by Imanol CaneyadaThe Iron Moonhunter (Fifth World Tales) by Kathleen ChangNot in Love by Ali Hazelwood
Chinese and other exploited Railroad Workers in Fiction
16 books — 5 voters
Freeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinThe Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus SchwabPlatform Capitalism by Nick SrnicekShaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus SchwabMachine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee
Books on Industrial Revolutions
26 books — 5 voters

Liberalism by Domenico LosurdoDoughnut Economics by Kate RaworthThe Right-Wing Social-Democrats Today by Otto Wille (1881-1964) Kuus...The Essential Keynes by John Maynard KeynesInventing the Future by Nick Srnicek
Social Democracy, Economic Theory, etc
55 books — 3 voters
How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorWomen and Socialism by Sharon SmithMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter by Aja MonetUndivided Rights by Loretta J. RossThe Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books 2018 Women's Liberation Reading List
12 books — 2 voters

Mama's Little Baby by Dennis BrownWhy Not Me? by Wendy L. BovardFolks Do Get Born by Marie CampbellMama Knows Best by Chrisena ColemanMotherwit by Onnie Lee Logan
ASDS Recommended Reading List
99 books — 2 voters
Das Finanzkapital by Peter DeckerDemokratie. Die perfekte Form bürgerlicher Herrschaft by Peter DeckerDas Proletariat. Die große Karriere der lohnarbeitenden Klass... by Peter DeckerArbeit und Reichtum by Margaret WirthDer Fall Griechenland by Jonas Köper
Gegenstandpunkt (Marxist critique)
71 books — 1 voter

Down Home Gynecology by Marvin JaffeeParthenogenesis by Den PoitrasOn Birth and Madness by Eric RhodeLabor Among Primitive Peoples, Showing the Development of the... by George Julius EngelmannLotus Birth by Shivam Rachana
•l'OBSTEerTRICkS
100 books — 1 voter
Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreCaste Matters by Suraj YengdeThe Social Context of an Ideology by M S GoreMahad by Bojja TharakamAmbedkar by Narendra Jadhav
Ambedkarite
23 books — 1 voter

American Coal by Mary Jane AppelPlanting Hope by Philip HoelzelMaine, a Peopled Landscape by Me.) Salt Center for Docume...Greenville Textiles by Kelly Lee OdomThe West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail by Center for Public History a...
Labor photography
38 books — 1 voter
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldField Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt TsingSlow Down by Kōhei SaitōThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. TuftePractice Practice by Ashton Hamm
Bluest Book Club
17 books — 1 voter

My Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas LigottiHorrorstör by Grady HendrixHasty for the Dark by Adam L.G. NevillThere Is No Antimemetics Division by qntmThe Corporation by J.F. Gonzalez
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Horror in Fiction
66 books — 1 voter
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyLakewood by Megan GiddingsSnow Crash by Neal StephensonThe Employees by Olga RavnRipe by Sarah Rose Etter
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part I
100 books — 1 voter

Metal from Heaven by August ClarkeTrust by Hernan DiazLand of Milk and Honey by C Pam ZhangBabel by R.F. KuangThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part II
100 books — 1 voter
The Egg Man by Carlton Mellick IIIExtreme Makeover by Dan WellsThe Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3 by Philip K. DickThe Terraformers by Annalee NewitzThe Portable Door by Tom Holt
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part III
16 books — 1 voter

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