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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 — 631,787 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,351 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,028,260 ratings — published 2017
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,159 ratings — published 2022
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,809 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 — 173,435 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,341 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 — 119,085 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 114,190 ratings — published 2017
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 255,409 ratings — published 2025
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,978 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,712 ratings — published 1965
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,150 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 — 41,151 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 270,252 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 — 1,489 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 — 27,399 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 — 30,645 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 — 101,655 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,630 ratings — published 2014
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,086 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,157 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,643 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,120 ratings — published 2015
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 283,525 ratings — published 1979
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.58 — 62,454 ratings — published 2025
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,266 ratings — published 1845
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 24,297 ratings — published 1986
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,870 ratings — published 2015
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 26,529 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,206 ratings — published 2019
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,506 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 99,926 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,004 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,032 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,650 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 — 12,068 ratings — published 2017
Sometimes People March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.35 — 658 ratings — published 2020
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,044 ratings — published 2018
Like a Love Story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,107 ratings — published 2019
The Artivist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 534 ratings — published 2023
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.74 — 74,671 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 — 3,189 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 — 104,356 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 — 181,603 ratings — published 2013
I am Malala Yousafzai (Ordinary People Change the World)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.46 — 174 ratings — published 2022
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,896 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 203,016 ratings — published 2018
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,162 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
“Even the ill-gotten billions reaped over decades from extortion, assassinations, and rackets by New York City’s Five Mafia Families pale in comparison to the trillions in economic devastation — from ballooning national debt to household-crushing tariffs — and the deliberate erosion of laws, the Constitution, and democratic institutions inflicted on America by Trump across his terms. This isn’t a U.S. presidency; it’s a mob boss running a criminal enterprise out of the White House.”
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