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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
223 books — 145 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
280 books — 138 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
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
98 books — 55 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
256 books — 52 voters
V for Vendetta by Alan MooreParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Wrath of Leviathan by T.C. WeberThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinSleep State Interrupt (1) by T.C. Weber
Fight the Power! Activism in fiction
72 books — 50 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonMaking A Difference by James L. HechtThe Soul Whispers Poetry by Vikki KoplickSacred Animal Activism by Vikki KoplickBorn Free by Joy Adamson
Activist memoirs
182 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)
174 books — 37 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
23 books — 30 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)
228 books — 21 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
101 books — 17 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
73 books — 9 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

The Little Book of Little Activists by Penguin Young ReadersElsie Mae Has Something to Say by Nancy J. CavanaughHere We Are by Kelly JensenResisters by Lauren SharkeyPeaceful Fights for Equal Rights by Rob Sanders
Books For and About Young Activists
38 books — 4 voters
Educated by Tara WestoverRust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne JolieRedefining Realness by Janet MockLove's Cauldron by Jennifer J. LehrAtlas of the Human Heart by Ariel Gore
Memoirs like "Unschooled"
12 books — 4 voters

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. BaptistCaste by Isabel WilkersonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisBlack Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier
Frontline Stereo Podcast
18 books — 3 voters
From Here to Equality by William A. Darity Jr.The Great Influenza by John M. BarryReparations by Duke L. KwonThe Debt by Randall RobinsonShould America Pay? by Raymond A. Winbush
Books on Reparations by African-Americans
6 books — 3 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
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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