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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
2,198 books — 1,638 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 — 615 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
363 books — 296 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
371 books — 274 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)
436 books — 190 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
298 books — 105 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
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneRed Goliath by Oscar OrtizA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessThe Carer by Scott L. Nelson
Groundbreaking Books
108 books — 93 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
448 books — 82 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
168 books — 81 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
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
293 books — 65 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 GedneyPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MD
Women's prison memoirs
70 books — 58 voters
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane ClaiborneSex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell BerryPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDCommon Prayer by Shane ClaiborneLet Justice Roll Down by John M. Perkins
Books for Ordinary Radicals
68 books — 52 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)
186 books — 51 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
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

From Doctor to Healer by Erica M. ElliottThey Also Ran by Irving StoneDisputed Pasts by Cristina Buarque de HollandaAlmost President by Scott FarrisAdytum by Mary Cools
"They Also Ran": Presidential candidates who didn't make it
144 books — 22 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

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
124 books — 17 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

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 — 14 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
70 books — 11 voters
Sister Outsider by Audre LordeSocialism by Friedrich EngelsPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDWe Will Shoot Back by Akinyele Omowale UmojaState and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
Required reading for realistic radicals.
119 books — 10 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
48 books — 4 voters
The Christian Left by Anthony A.J. WilliamsPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightThe Blinding of America by James E CroleyThe Heart Of The World by Charles Monroe Sheldon
Christian Socialism
19 books — 4 voters

A Serpent's Tooth by Robert SwindellsKing of Hope by Kim ConklinMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightMonster in Our Midst by Peggy WoodfordFukushima Devil Fish by Susumu Katsumata
Anti-Atomic Energy, No Nukes - Fiction
76 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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