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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 638,797 ratings — published 2012
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as activist)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,341 ratings — published 2017
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,981 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,386 ratings — published 2010
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 295,475 ratings — published 2025
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,282 ratings — published 1981
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,375 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,732 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 118,436 ratings — published 2017
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,358 ratings — published 2022
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,806 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,120 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,914 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,517 ratings — published 1965
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 77,516 ratings — published 2025
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,677 ratings — published 1845
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,598 ratings — published 2015
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 189,121 ratings — published 2013
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,939 ratings — published 1963
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,381 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 273,761 ratings — published 1980
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,513 ratings — published 2020
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,581 ratings — published 1997
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,925 ratings — published 2003
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,184 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,897 ratings — published 2014
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,295 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,316 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 341,338 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 293,947 ratings — published 1979
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 540,676 ratings — published 2022
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,555,953 ratings — published 1985
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,440 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 181,715 ratings — published 2019
Revenge of the Tipping Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.02 — 66,299 ratings — published 2024
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.12 — 148,590 ratings — published 2025
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,752,770 ratings — published 1949
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,825 ratings — published 2024
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 24,473 ratings — published 1986
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.60 — 27,819 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,892 ratings — published 2019
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,140 ratings — published 2023
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,738 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.10 — 105,330 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,310 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,064 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,759 ratings — published 2024
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,404 ratings — published 2017
Sometimes People March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.35 — 657 ratings — published 2020
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 19,248 ratings — published 2018
“Naskaradeniz, Sonnet 2412
(The Planet Dervish)
Where your hope ends,
there my stubbornness begins.
Where gods stay cripple,
there my duty begins.
Where law fails order,
there my justice begins.
Where state fails society,
there my civilizing begins.
Where schools fail truth,
there my curiosity begins.
Where science fails empathy,
there my intervention convenes.”
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
(The Planet Dervish)
Where your hope ends,
there my stubbornness begins.
Where gods stay cripple,
there my duty begins.
Where law fails order,
there my justice begins.
Where state fails society,
there my civilizing begins.
Where schools fail truth,
there my curiosity begins.
Where science fails empathy,
there my intervention convenes.”
― Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”
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