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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
2,221 books — 1,659 voters
1984 by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck PalahniukA 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
978 books — 618 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
367 books — 300 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnAmerica (The Book) by Jon StewartMe Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris1776 by David McCulloughHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Daily Show Reading Club
375 books — 278 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)
441 books — 195 voters
This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaPornography by Andrea DworkinRight-Wing Women by Andrea DworkinIntercourse by Andrea DworkinSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Radical Feminist Texts
316 books — 107 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 — 101 voters
Pro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyAmerica Is Flatlining by Michael Aloysius O'ReillyCollective Vengeance by Joseph StanleyElites, technology, and asset prices by Andreas AntrupAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb Tsipursky
"Best" Political Reads
172 books — 98 voters

The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One by George Walters-SleyonThe Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two by George Walters-SleyonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Let's Dismantle the Patriarchy
295 books — 97 voters
The Carer by Scott L. NelsonDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneRed Goliath by Oscar OrtizA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Groundbreaking Books
108 books — 96 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 AkreyiWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia Furstenberg
Women's History Month
452 books — 83 voters
L’étrange voyage d’une coccinelle, entre l’Oise et l’Ardenne ... by Annemarie TrekkerThe History of Greenland by Torbjørn YdegaardBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaAnd a Voice to Sing With by Joan Baez
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
190 books — 72 voters

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
349 books — 71 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
70 books — 51 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
69 books — 49 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)
75 books — 47 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 — 30 voters
Amor Amaro beendet die diXXda©-Verschwörung by Marco ToccatoUntenrum frei by Margarete StokowskiAmor Amaro beendet die diXXda© Verschwörung by Marco ToccatoDer kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen by Alice SchwarzerSprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay
Feminismus auf Deutsch
82 books — 26 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 SilverbergWhat Makes a Baby by Cory SilverbergIt's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. HarrisIt's So Amazing! by Robie H. HarrisIt's Not the Stork! by Robie H. Harris
Progressive Sexuality Education
40 books — 21 voters

They Also Ran by Irving StoneAlmost President by Scott FarrisDisputed Pasts by Cristina Buarque de HollandaAdytum by Mary CoolsWomen of Wolfram Camp by Jenny Kroonstuiver
"They Also Ran": Presidential candidates who didn't make it
143 books — 18 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
123 books — 15 voters
My Awakening by David DukeDisputed Pasts by Cristina Buarque de HollandaAdytum by Mary CoolsThe Ralph Nader Reader by Ralph NaderWomen of Wolfram Camp by Jenny Kroonstuiver
Third Party Presidental Candidates (nonfiction)
28 books — 12 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
71 books — 12 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

Dark Emu by Bruce PascoeThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinBorder Walls Gone Green by John HultgrenThe Price of Thirst by Karen PiperMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee Knight
Radical reads to understand capitalism's ecological disaster
49 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 Christian Left by Anthony A.J. WilliamsMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightThe Blinding of America by James E CroleyThe Heart Of The World by Charles Monroe SheldonThe Blinding of America by James Croley
Christian Socialism
18 books — 3 voters
Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph StalinMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisCaliban and the Witch by Silvia FedericiThe State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
A Better World is Possible: Books for the Socialist Revolutionary
6 books — 2 voters

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