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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
2,129 books — 1,537 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

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

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyBoot by Charles L. TempletonThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Counter-Culture of the 1960s (fiction and nonfiction)
420 books — 172 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 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Children of Men by P.D. JamesThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperHerland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dystopias with gender- or religion-specific phobics
199 books — 91 voters
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAnimal Farm by George OrwellMad Love by Lynessa Layne
Groundbreaking Books
94 books — 74 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
440 books — 74 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
153 books — 73 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
358 books — 71 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

Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen GedneyPrisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Women's prison memoirs
68 books — 50 voters
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane ClaiborneSex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell BerryCommon Prayer by Shane ClaiborneLet Justice Roll Down by John M. PerkinsNew Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Books for Ordinary Radicals
64 books — 45 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsBlack Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl Wiggins
Race Rebels, Black Power, & Community Organizing (nonfiction)
68 books — 41 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)
175 books — 38 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 WittigSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction
66 books — 31 voters
The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.Paperback Crush by Gabrielle MossRoses and Radicals by Susan ZimetRadical Equations by Robert P. MosesGyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
Radical Titles
285 books — 24 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
AfterTastes and Tales from Russia by Jake DanishevskyInherent Vice by Thomas PynchonMidnight At The Palace by Pam TentThe Albino Album by Chavisa WoodsRotten by John Lydon
Radical Reading for 2013
48 books — 16 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
122 books — 14 voters
Untenrum frei by Margarete StokowskiDer kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen by Alice SchwarzerSprache und Sein by Kübra GümüşayDie Wand by Marlen HaushoferUnlearn Patriarchy by Lisa Jaspers
Feminismus auf Deutsch
79 books — 13 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinDebt by David GraeberThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenRedemption by Regina M. Joseph
Audiobook Anarchy & Ecology
70 books — 11 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

Sister Outsider by Audre LordeSocialism by Friedrich EngelsWe Will Shoot Back by Akinyele Omowale UmojaState and Revolution by Vladimir LeninThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
Required reading for realistic radicals.
118 books — 8 voters
My Awakening by David DukeThe Ralph Nader Reader by Ralph NaderReturn to Sender by Ralph NaderCrashing the Party by Ralph NaderEugene V. Debs Speaks by Eugene V. Debs
Third Party Presidental Candidates (nonfiction)
40 books — 6 voters

Dark Emu by Bruce PascoeThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinBorder Walls Gone Green by John HultgrenThe Price of Thirst by Karen PiperThe Closing Circle by Barry Commoner
Radical reads to understand capitalism's ecological disaster
47 books — 3 voters
A Serpent's Tooth by Robert SwindellsKing of Hope by Kim ConklinMonster in Our Midst by Peggy WoodfordFukushima Devil Fish by Susumu KatsumataThe Guilty Party by Joan Lingard
Anti-Atomic Energy, No Nukes - Fiction
75 books — 2 voters

Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph StalinWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisCaliban and the Witch by Silvia FedericiThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninSocialist Reconstruction by Party for Socialism and Lib...
A Better World is Possible: Books for the Socialist Revolutionary
5 books — 1 voter
The Christian Left by Anthony A.J. WilliamsThe Heart Of The World by Charles Monroe SheldonChristian Socialism by John C. CortChristian Socialism by Ophelia MadisonCulture and Political Crisis in Vienna by John W. Boyer
Christian Socialism
15 books — 1 voter

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