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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,096 books — 1,534 voters
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

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
961 books — 570 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Cult fiction
538 books — 466 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
64 books — 108 voters
Pornography by Andrea DworkinThis Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaRight-Wing Women by Andrea DworkinIntercourse by Andrea DworkinThe Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone
Radical Feminist Texts
296 books — 100 voters

The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankFemales of Valor by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad AkreyiRoots of To-Be Templars by Widad Akreyi
Women's History Month
441 books — 80 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
357 books — 70 voters

The Kyanite Alliance by Nora HalliwellWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dark Feminist Books
116 books — 65 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBad Feminist by Roxane GayThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtA Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Let's Dismantle the Patriarchy
288 books — 58 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
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

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)
172 books — 37 voters
The House Divided by J.B. ManheimAdolf Hitler - Founder of Israel by Hennecke KardelEurocommunism Is Anti-Communism by Enver HoxhaHolland, kranten, kerkers en koningen by Eillert MeeterThe Swamp by Eric Bolling
Best political hit pieces
28 books — 33 voters

You Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne RichLesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia HoaglandThe Straight Mind by Monique WittigCall Me Lesbian by Julia Penelope
Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction
66 books — 30 voters
Sex Is a Funny Word by Cory SilverbergIt's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. HarrisWhat Makes a Baby by Cory SilverbergIt's So Amazing! by Robie H. HarrisIt's Not the Stork! by Robie H. Harris
Progressive Sexuality Education
34 books — 20 voters

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du BoisReconstruction by Eric FonerThe Wars of Reconstruction by Douglas R. EgertonForever Free by Eric FonerStony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
America's Most Progressive Era: Reconstruction and The African-American
121 books — 13 voters
They Also Ran by Irving StoneAlmost President by Scott FarrisHenry Clay by Harlow Giles UngerThe Rise of a Prairie Statesman by Thomas J. KnockA Godly Hero by Michael Kazin
"They Also Ran": Presidential candidates who didn't make it
135 books — 10 voters

I Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldPerestroika by Harpal BrarAnother View of Stalin by Ludo MartensEconomic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. by Joseph StalinSoviet Democracy by Pat Sloan
The Stalin Society
14 books — 8 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiStamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonRace Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue
Resources for Social Justice--MMT Recommendations (Nonfiction)
33 books — 6 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarBhimayana by Srividya NatarajanWomen, Race, and Class by Angela Y. DavisTurning the Pot, Tilling the Land by Kancha IlaiahBlindness of Insight by Dilip M. Menon
Social Justice Books: Navayana Publishing
99 books — 4 voters
Norges Kommunistiske Partis Historie by Norges Kommunistiske PartiKrigerstaten Norge by RevolusjonBlod, olje og våpen by Pål SteiganMarxismen - Kort Innføring by Norges Kommunistiske PartiThe Class Struggle in Norway by Pål Steigan
Norwegian Marxism
12 books — 1 voter

The Collapse of the Soviet Union by International Communist Sem...Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder by Vladimir LeninImperialism by Vladimir LeninState and Revolution by Vladimir LeninSocialism by Friedrich Engels
The International Communist Movement
6 books — 1 voter
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners by Roland BoerManifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl MarxThe Collapse of the Soviet Union by International Communist Sem...Perestroika by Harpal BrarThe East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Carlos Martínez
Market Socialisms - Transition Periods
13 books — 1 voter

Eurocommunism Is Anti-Communism by Enver HoxhaThe Titoites by Enver HoxhaThe Soviet White Paper on the North Atlantic Pact by Soviet Foreign MinistryThe Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Id... by M.D. Kammari
Marxist-Leninism - Hoxhaism
4 books — 1 voter
Manifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl MarxAnti-Dühring by Friedrich EngelsOn Authority by Friedrich EngelsThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Library of ProleWiki
17 books — 1 voter

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners by Roland BoerSocialism in Power by Roland BoerThe East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Carlos MartínezSocialism with Chinese Characteristics by Harpal BrarThe Destiny of Civilization by Michael Hudson
Marxism-Leninism - Xi Jinping Thought
8 books — 1 voter
Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Kremlin, Moscow
Soviet Law
1 book — 1 voter

Manifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl MarxConstitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Kremlin, MoscowAnti-Dühring by Friedrich EngelsEconomic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. by Joseph StalinSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Planned Economies - Socialism
17 books — 1 voter
The Economic Reconstruction of Northeast China by Gao GangAnother View of Stalin by Ludo MartensManifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl MarxThe Tax in Kind by Vladimir LeninTHE MERITS OF STALIN by Ludo Martens
State Capitalism/Planned Capitalism to Socialism
6 books — 1 voter

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