31 books
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Abolitionism Books
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The Last Runaway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.86 — 39,546 ratings — published 2013
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,543 ratings — published 2003
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,403 ratings — published 2017
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,289 ratings — published 2021
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,023 ratings — published 2021
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,494 ratings — published 2022
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.97 — 325 ratings — published 2021
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,020 ratings — published 2021
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.48 — 293 ratings — published
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,272 ratings — published 1975
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,707 ratings — published 2005
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.26 — 333,938 ratings — published 2014
Abolitionismus. Ein Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.59 — 27 ratings — published 2022
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.52 — 6,443 ratings — published 2019
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 2024
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,259 ratings — published 2007
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,180 ratings — published 2007
March (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.82 — 79,266 ratings — published 2005
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.54 — 684 ratings — published
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,784 ratings — published 2022
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.14 — 911 ratings — published 2022
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.11 — 95,530 ratings — published 2023
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.58 — 481 ratings — published
Against Borders: The Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.07 — 309 ratings — published
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,133 ratings — published 2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,065 ratings — published 2010
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,241 ratings — published 2015
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,873 ratings — published 1987
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,775 ratings — published 2015
Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.53 — 38 ratings — published
Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.71 — 58 ratings — published
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.33 — 174 ratings — published 2024
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.41 — 178 ratings — published 2023
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.57 — 58 ratings — published 2022
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.46 — 319 ratings — published 2014
Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.40 — 858 ratings — published 2019
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.69 — 915 ratings — published 1852
Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.27 — 189 ratings — published
Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,580 ratings — published 1995
What about the rapists? Anarchist approaches to crime & justice (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.83 — 209 ratings — published
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.92 — 243,680 ratings — published 1852
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,241 ratings — published 2020
The Mapmaker's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,973 ratings — published 2014
The Good Lord Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 3.96 — 38,555 ratings — published 2013
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,714 ratings — published 1972
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.23 — 362 ratings — published 1994
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.35 — 420 ratings — published 2003
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.48 — 220 ratings — published 2020
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,680 ratings — published 2020
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abolitionism)
avg rating 4.43 — 75 ratings — published 2014
“Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.”
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“Unless disability and animal justice are incorporated into our other movements for liberation, ableism and anthropocentrism will be left unchallenged, available for use by systems of domination and oppression.”
― Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
― Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation












