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Activist Books
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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 — 627,747 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,911 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,020,439 ratings — published 2017
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,033 ratings — published 2022
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,515 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 — 172,815 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,075 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,302 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 111,388 ratings — published 2017
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 227,381 ratings — published 2025
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,884 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,610 ratings — published 1965
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,064 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 4.70 — 40,435 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,171 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 4.40 — 1,475 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 — 27,293 ratings — published 1997
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,531 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,311 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 264,828 ratings — published 2014
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,927 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,057 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 333,755 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,729 ratings — published 2015
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,220 ratings — published 1979
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.59 — 51,585 ratings — published 2025
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,300 ratings — published 1845
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,397 ratings — published 2015
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,660 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,811 ratings — published 2019
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,358 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 96,455 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,717 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,020 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,580 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 — 11,879 ratings — published 2017
Sometimes People March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 635 ratings — published 2020
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 17,167 ratings — published 2018
Like a Love Story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,006 ratings — published 2019
The Artivist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 524 ratings — published 2023
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.74 — 73,909 ratings — published 2023
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,137 ratings — published 2022
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 103,291 ratings — published 1970
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 177,307 ratings — published 2013
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,077 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 199,660 ratings — published 2018
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,077 ratings — published 2019
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.38 — 208 ratings — published 2022
Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.41 — 393 ratings — published 2022
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,034 ratings — published 2021












