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The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
1,063 books — 710 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingLean In by Sheryl SandbergThe Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaDrift by Rachel Maddow
Books Rec'd By The Daily Show
339 books — 277 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1776 by David McCullough
The Daily Show Reading Club
343 books — 235 voters
The War on Normal People by Andrew YangShortest Way Home by Pete ButtigiegJourneys with Jimmy Carter and other Adventures in Media by Barry JagodaOur Revolution by Bernie SandersThe Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
2020 Election Candidates - U.S.A
65 books — 109 voters

Pro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyCollective Vengeance by Joseph StanleyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb Tsipursky
"Best" Political Reads
152 books — 72 voters
The Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksAsking for It by Kate HardingHe's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Ever... by Jessica ValentiBlack Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Third-Wave Feminism
169 books — 64 voters

The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanBREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike DavisSexual Politics by Kate Millett
Second Wave Feminism
142 books — 57 voters
I Am Fearfully & Wonderfully Made by Licia JohnsonJogging through the Bible by H. L. WegleyThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisMere Christianity by C.S. LewisSmall Victories by Anne Lamott
Contemporary Christianity
152 books — 41 voters

Never Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyWhite Trash by Nancy IsenbergThe Liberal Record by Marcelo BrazziOn Fascism by Matthew C. MacwilliamsThe Ailing Nation by Nate Link
United States of Ideas I (nonfiction)
231 books — 40 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
37 books — 39 voters

Things Hoped For by Derinda BabcockThings Hoped For by Derinda BabcockThe First Paul by Marcus J. BorgThe Last Week by Marcus J. BorgSurprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
Best Books for New Testament Studies
51 books — 29 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinAusterity by Mark BlythWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Hear... by Thomas FrankOur Revolution by Bernie Sanders
Majority Report
171 books — 24 voters

U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodManifesto of the Free People's Union by Jakub LasakThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx1984 by George Orwell
Books Conservatives Accuse Liberals of Reading
38 books — 22 voters
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenSee Me Naked by Tara T. GreenA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfTwenty Years at Hull House by Jane AddamsThe Role of Women in Society in the 20th Century by Salvatore Ferrazzani
First Wave Feminism
81 books — 22 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderN*gga Theory by Jody ArmourThis Is Not Propaganda by Peter PomerantsevImperialism by Vladimir Lenin
Books The Elite Doesn’t Want You To Read
145 books — 22 voters
Black Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyFreeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonMother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn
Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)
243 books — 20 voters

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtEconomic Conservative/Social Liberal by Mark BraggTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsA Conflict of Visions by Thomas SowellHow the Right Lost Its Mind by Charles J. Sykes
Multipartisan Politics
40 books — 19 voters
NeuroTribes by Steve SilbermanIn a Different Key by John DonvanMismatch by Kat HolmesNeuroDiversity by Judy SingerMoojag and the Lost Memories by N.E. McMorran
Neurodiversity and Disability in Society - 50 Introductory Books
61 books — 19 voters

Notorious RBG by Irin CarmonThurgood Marshall by Juan WilliamsThe Nine by Jeffrey ToobinMy Own Words by Ruth Bader GinsburgMy Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
The US Supreme Court (nonfiction)
116 books — 13 voters
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth WarrenAn Unlikely Journey by Julian CastroShortest Way Home by Pete ButtigiegThe Truths We Hold by Kamala HarrisWhere We Go from Here by Bernie Sanders
2020 Democratic Primary
37 books — 11 voters

An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver SacksThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettOur Time To Dance, A Mother's Journey To Joy by Eva Doherty GremmertBecoming Human by Jean VanierA Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Ability and Disability Introduction - Monthly List #1
27 books — 11 voters
The Declaration of Independence by Carl Lotus BeckerThe Shallows by Nicholas CarrDemocracy in America by Alexis de TocquevilleThe Federalist Papers by Founding FathersShopping for God by James B. Twitchell
United States of Ideas II (nonfiction)
155 books — 8 voters

President Kennedy by Richard ReevesA Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.These Few Precious Days by Christopher AndersenRobert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill
Camelot: Books on JFK's Presidency, 1961-1963 (nonfiction)
171 books — 8 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëThis Is What America Looks Like by Ilhan OmarMy Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Books By Liberal Women
82 books — 4 voters

Psychic Witch by Mat AurynRodham by Curtis SittenfeldThe Raise by Ali KriegsmanWhat Happened by Hillary Rodham ClintonLiving History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
neolib girlboss books
101 books — 3 voters
Images of God for Young Children by Marie-Hélène DelvalSofa Time Bible Stories "Thankfulness" by Ca'Shanna WilliamsIn God's Name by Sandy Eisenberg SassoGod's Paintbrush by Sandy Eisenberg SassoBut God Remembered by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Liberal Christian Books For Kids
10 books — 2 voters

Losing Ground by Charles MurrayThe Tempting of America by Robert H. BorkThe Closing of the American Mind by Allan BloomRight from the Beginning by Patrick J. BuchananWitness by Whittaker Chambers
Dinesh D'Souza's 27 Books Every Conservative Should Read
27 books — 2 voters
To Live Freely in This World by Chi Adanna MgbakoThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderHustling Verse by Amber DawnMarvellous Grounds by Jin HaritawornJustine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings by Marquis de Sade
Books at The Sex Workers' Pop-Up
32 books — 2 voters

Say It Louder! by Tiffany CrossAfrican American Political Thought by Melvin L. RogersWhy Didn't We Riot? by Issac J. BaileyFrom Here to Equality by William A. Darity Jr.The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared A. Ball
Politics by African-Americans Published in Decade: 2020s
7 books — 1 voter
The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. StiglitzDemocracy at Work by Richard D. WolffThe Great Derangement by Amitav GhoshOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Liberal book recommendations
28 books — 1 voter

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