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Theory of People by Jakub LasakThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouReform or Revolution & Other Writings by Rosa LuxemburgLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The Revolution Starts Here
136 books — 92 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
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
188 books — 54 voters

Summer of '69 by Todd StrasserClover Blue by Eldonna EdwardsHome Free by Rifka KreiterThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Books for Aging Hippies
62 books — 41 voters
The Beauty in Her Soul by Vesela PattonHoot by Carl HiaasenFlush by Carl HiaasenThe Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. KonigsburgBenny the Misfit by Hila Colman
Kids versus Property Developers
201 books — 25 voters

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauThe Long Loneliness by Dorothy DayLetter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma GandhiAcross That Bridge by John Lewis
Civil Disobedients
81 books — 22 voters
Two Beat Newbie by Harry WhitewolfNew Beat Newbie by Harry WhitewolfThe Rebel's Sketchbook by Rupert DreyfusSpark by Rupert DreyfusPropaganda Monkeys - Twenty Poems From My Twenties by Harry Whitewolf
Ⓐ Protest Fiction & Poetry in the Digital Age Ⓐ
52 books — 17 voters

Curious George by H.A. ReyA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahLolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtIn the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Books by Refugees in America
49 books — 16 voters
Cyborg Contact by Terry BirdgenawThe Rise and Fall of Antocracy by Terry BirdgenawWeather and Beasts and Growing Things by Charlotte SutteeThe Sheep Look Up by John BrunnerThis Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Environment And Climate Related Books
38 books — 16 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
Temperament by Stuart IsacoffThe History of Pendennis by William Makepeace ThackerayESP in Relation to Rorschach Test Evaluation by Gertrude Raffel SchmeidlerThe Testament by John GrishamBrain Tests by Edmund Shaftesbury
The Blind Taste "Testing" Inkblots
265 books — 9 voters

Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast by Danny WinterHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergMeditations in an Emergency by Frank O'HaraInsomniacs, We by J. Andrew SchreckerSelected Poems 1976-2019 by Will Dockery
Best Late Night Poetry
21 books — 8 voters
City on Fire by Antony DapiranUnfree Speech by Joshua WongUmbrella by Kong Tsung-gan烈火黑潮： 城市戰地裡的香港人 by 李雪莉Umbrellas in Bloom by Jason Y. Ng
Politics and Social Movements in Hong Kong 香港政治及社運書籍
89 books — 8 voters

City on Fire by Antony DapiranDefying the Dragon by Stephen VinesIndelible City by Louisa Lim元朗黑夜 by 柳俊江反抗的共同體：2019香港反送中運動 by 馬嶽
Hong Kong 2019 Protests 反送中運動
136 books — 7 voters
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildHigh Risk by Ben TimberlakeThe Terror Years by Lawrence Wright13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff
Terrorism And Terrorists
36 books — 7 voters

Halkın Yoldaşı Ethem Sarısülük by Tahsin Yılmaz#Yaşarken Yazılan Tarih by Gürsel GöncüGezi ve Sosyoloji by Emrah GökerAli İsmail by İsmail SaymazYa Ameliyatlı Yerime Gelseydi by Kemal Gökkan Gürses
Gezi Direnişi Kitapları - #occupygezi
71 books — 5 voters
Anger Is a Gift by Mark OshiroTyler Johnson Was Here by Jay ColesI Am Alfonso Jones by Tony MedinaDear Martin by Nic StoneLittle Brother by Cory Doctorow
Radical YA Books
49 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 PastorElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino
Ambedkarite
26 books — 5 voters
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerOn Violence by Hannah ArendtSay Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildWhite Rage by Carol Anderson
A History of Violence
67 books — 5 voters

A Serpent's Tooth by Robert SwindellsKing of Hope by Kim ConklinMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightA Realistic Path to Peace by Dee KnightMonster in Our Midst by Peggy Woodford
Anti-Atomic Energy, No Nukes - Fiction
77 books — 4 voters
The Ipswich Bus by Robbie FranklinEchoes from a Cobbled Street by David HayesAnxiety by Danny WinterMirror on the World by Ann PerryDe mooiste gedichten van Federico García Lorca by Federico García Lorca
Unexpected talent
12 books — 3 voters

To Live Freely in This World by Chi Adanna MgbakoThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'AgostinoHustling Verse by Amber DawnMarvellous Grounds by Jin Haritaworn
Books at The Sex Workers' Pop-Up
33 books — 3 voters
The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasSomeone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-WaksbergThings a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally NichollsIf You're Going to a March by Martha FreemanRose Rage by Illana Cantin
Holding a Sign or Placard: Covers
35 books — 3 voters

Make Room! Make Room! by Harry HarrisonThe Integrity Gap by Stephen M. Fry Ph.D.A Realistic Path to Peace by Dee KnightParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler1984 by George Orwell
Fictional Apocalypses: The World's End From Humanity
61 books — 3 voters
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World by Mark L. Clifford抗命的倫理 by 陳健民The Umbrella Movement by Ngok MaChallenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven by Ming-sho Ho對話 X 佔領 by 戴耀廷
Hong Kong Umbrella Movement 雨傘運動
63 books — 2 voters

為下一代覺醒 by 譚蕙芸爸爸媽媽上戰場 by 國民教育家長關注組鐵屋吶喊 我們是學民思潮 by 學民思潮廣場絕食日記 by 韓連山死撐 by 韓連山
Hong Kong Anti-National Education protests 2012反國教運動
5 books — 1 voter
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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