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Harvesting Hope by Kathleen KrullWhole Whale by Karen YinClick, Clack, Moo by Doreen CroninAnd Tango Makes Three by Justin RichardsonThe Beginner's Guide to Winning an Election by Michael R. French
Growing Future Activists
227 books — 149 voters
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
291 books — 146 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinP.O.W.ER by Lisa A. KramerThe Children of Men by P.D. JamesThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Dystopias with gender- or religion-specific phobics
201 books — 102 voters
Migrant Crisis by John SteelV for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
75 books — 69 voters

The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
104 books — 67 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiMy Life on the Road by Gloria SteinemInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliBecoming by Michelle ObamaMy Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Feminist Memoirs
269 books — 57 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDMaking A Difference by James L. HechtThe Soul Whispers Poetry by Vikki KoplickSacred Animal Activism by Vikki Koplick
Activist memoirs
185 books — 49 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-OrtizPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MD
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
180 books — 46 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
39 books — 42 voters
On the Beach by Nevil ShuteThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankThe 40 Minute War by Janet E. MorrisSwan Song by Robert McCammon
Fictional Books About Nuclear War
25 books — 32 voters

The Secret Man by Bob WoodwardThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnStayin’ Alive by Jefferson R. CowieGame, Set, Match by Susan WareThe Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's by Steven Lee Beeber
The 1970s in the United States (nonfiction)
236 books — 29 voters
Us by Sarina BowenAmerican Fairytale by Adriana HerreraAn Extraordinary Union by Alyssa ColeThe Suffragette Scandal by Courtney MilanThe Duchess War by Courtney Milan
Change Makers in Romance Novels
102 books — 18 voters

Prejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDCracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonFrom Here to Equality by William A. Darity Jr.The Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Books on Reparations by African-Americans
12 books — 13 voters
A Realistic Path to Peace by Dee KnightThe Little Book of Little Activists by Penguin BooksElsie Mae Has Something to Say by Nancy J. CavanaughHere We Are by Kelly JensenResisters by Lauren Sharkey
Books For and About Young Activists
39 books — 12 voters

Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDStony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. BaptistCaste by Isabel Wilkerson
Frontline Stereo Podcast
23 books — 11 voters
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiUntil We Are Free by Shirin EbadiThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinWe Also Made History by Urmila PawarDo Justice by Kristi Burton Brown
Feminist activists and activism
74 books — 10 voters

Educated by Tara WestoverRust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne JolieRedefining Realness by Janet MockLove's Cauldron by Jennifer J. LehrPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MD
Memoirs like "Unschooled"
17 books — 10 voters
Leftover Women by Leta Hong FincherThe Birth of Chinese Feminism by He ZhenPirate Queens by Leigh LewisMistletoe by Richard K. AlisonBetraying Big Brother by Leta Hong Fincher
Feminism in China
15 books — 4 voters

To Live Freely in This World by Chi Adanna MgbakoThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDHustling Verse by Amber DawnMarvellous Grounds by Jin Haritaworn
Books at The Sex Workers' Pop-Up
33 books — 3 voters
Recipes for Change by Michael PlattMichaels Desserts by Michael C. PlattCooking Up Change by Michael PlattJustice of the Pies by Maya-Camille BroussardThe Antiracist Kitchen by Ainara Alleyne
Baking and Crafting as Resistance
40 books — 1 voter

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