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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodVox by Christina DalcherThe Grace Year by Kim LiggettThe Stepford Wives by Ira LevinOnly Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill
Patriarchal Dystopias
131 books — 114 voters
Holes by Louis SacharEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardMatilda by Roald DahlThe Austere Academy by Lemony SnicketVariant by Robison Wells
Evil Schools - Public, Private, and University
102 books — 89 voters

The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike DavisBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstSexual Politics by Kate Millett
Second Wave Feminism
147 books — 68 voters
Wild Swans by Jung ChangLife and Death in Shanghai by Nien ChengMao by Jung ChangRed Azalea by Anchee MinThe People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim
Banned CHINA Books
30 books — 55 voters

Broadway General Manager by Peter BogyoThe Corrosion of Character by Richard SennettClass by Paul FussellThe Perils of "Privilege" by Phoebe Maltz BovyCapitalism for Democrats by Martin Lowy
Nonfiction on class
68 books — 54 voters
Syrian Brides by Anna HalabiThe Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El SaadawiHeadscarves and Hymens by Mona EltahawyWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiThe Veil and the Male Elite by Fatema Mernissi
Arab feminism
46 books — 45 voters

Pornland by Gail DinesPornography by Andrea DworkinWoman Hating by Andrea DworkinThe Industrial Vagina by Sheila JeffreysCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich
Sex-critical feminism
148 books — 28 voters
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...Disability Visibility by Alice WongFarewell, Diagnosis by Benjamin MorsaEarth, Animal, and Disability Liberation by Anthony J. Nocella IIMoojag and the Auticode Secret by N.E. McMorran
Disability Justice Writing
54 books — 24 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
81 books — 17 voters
Woman and Nature by Susan GriffinWomen Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola EstésThe Death of Nature by Carolyn MerchantThe Green Reaper by Elizabeth FournierGyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
Ecofeminist nonfiction
35 books — 15 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarThe Weave of My Life by Urmila PawarThe Prisons We Broke by Baby KambleThe Essential Writings of B. R. Ambedkar by B.R. AmbedkarMAHAD by Anand Teltumbde
Dalit History
110 books — 13 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDaddy's Hobby by Owen JonesThe 19th Wife by David EbershoffThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanDisposable People by Kevin Bales
Female Oppression
15 books — 11 voters

The Exercise of Freedom by Susie TharuMotherwit by Urmila PawarThe Grip of Change by P. SivakamiUnclaimed Terrain by Ajay NavariaThe Branded by Laxman Gaikwad
Dalit Literature
103 books — 10 voters
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntmTender Is the Flesh by Agustina BazterricaMy Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas LigottiPatti 209 by K.G. AndersonA Fair System, Probably by Ken Mazaika
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Horror in Fiction
79 books — 8 voters

Olympus Seen on a Clear Day by Robert CastleBloodline by William GraceMake Room! Make Room! by Harry HarrisonThe Integrity Gap by Stephen M. Fry Ph.D.A Realistic Path to Peace by Dee Knight
Fictional Apocalypses: The World's End From Humanity
64 books — 8 voters
Ambedkar by Salim YusufjiAmbedkar by Gail OmvedtIconoclast by Anand TeltumbdeAmbedkar's Preamble by Aakash Singh RathoreThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Ambedkar — Books About Babasaheb
32 books — 7 voters

Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonThe Eclipse Trilogy by John ShirleyThe Egg Man by Carlton Mellick IIIGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.The Last Syllable by Valeriano Diviacchi
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part III
41 books — 7 voters
Ambedkar by Gail OmvedtJoothan by Omprakash ValmikiThe Weave of My Life by Urmila PawarThe Elephant Chaser's Daughter by Shilpa RajComing Out as Dalit by Yashica Dutt
Dalit Biographies
65 books — 6 voters

Lakewood by Megan GiddingsWaste by Eugene MartenBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyThe Queen's Envoy by Lord David ProsserGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part I
104 books — 6 voters
The Straight Mind by Monique WittigThis Sex Which is Not One by Luce IrigarayClose to Home by Christine DelphyUn féminisme décolonial by Françoise VergèsL'écrivaine morte by Núria Añó
French feminism
32 books — 5 voters

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreRadical in Ambedkar by Anand TeltumbdeWhat Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me by Ambedkar Age CollectiveThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorPsychological Richness As Breakthrough by Hubert J.M. Hermans
Ambedkarite
27 books — 5 voters
Never Caught by Erica Armstrong DunbarIsland Queen by Vanessa RileyKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Escapes of David George by Gregory E. O'MalleySouth to Freedom by Alice L. Baumgartner
June Book Display - Juneteenth / Freedom Day
84 books — 4 voters

The Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiCivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George SaundersWe Had to Remove This Post by Hanna BervoetsMetal from Heaven by August ClarkeGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.
Corporate, Workplace and Capitalist Exploitation in Fiction Part II
101 books — 4 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanHope in the Dark by Rebecca SolnitHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiCaste by Isabel WilkersonThe New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
iovation social skills bookclub reading list
56 books — 3 voters

Dalit Women and the Fullness of Life by Christina DhanujaHindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces by Tapan BasuTai Chi for Kids by Cari ShurmanLove in the Time of Caste by Nikhil PandhiDalit Women's Education in Modern India by Shailaja Paik
Dalit Women
26 books — 3 voters
Facing the Lion by Simone Arnold LiebsterPandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature by William FrankeBehind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. WilliamsA Faraway Island by Annika ThorRed Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
The Children Shall Lead
101 books — 2 voters

Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane AndersTwitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep TufekciQueer Newark by Whitney StrubNo Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore
Book Riot 2026 #ReadHarder Challenge Task #5
4 books — 2 voters
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodHindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces by Tapan BasuBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyRed Queen by Victoria AveyardThe Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Caste in Fiction
43 books — 2 voters

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