32 books
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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 — 623,917 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,471 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,012,277 ratings — published 2017
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,204 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 — 172,184 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,850 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 — 117,346 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 107,490 ratings — published 2017
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 194,160 ratings — published 2025
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,870 ratings — published 2022
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,790 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 291,536 ratings — published 1965
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 121,282 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 — 39,659 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,351 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 — 1,468 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 — 27,157 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 — 30,404 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 — 100,992 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 261,974 ratings — published 2014
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,800 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,978 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 330,813 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,711 ratings — published 2015
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 271,707 ratings — published 1979
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,981 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 — 35,724 ratings — published 2015
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,807 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,337 ratings — published 2019
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,115 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 92,286 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,468 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,997 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,513 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 — 11,697 ratings — published 2017
Sometimes People March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 630 ratings — published 2020
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,914 ratings — published 2018
Like a Love Story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,911 ratings — published 2019
The Artivist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 514 ratings — published 2023
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.74 — 72,988 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 — 3,099 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 — 102,483 ratings — published 1970
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 173,238 ratings — published 2013
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,439 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 196,719 ratings — published 2018
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,993 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 4.37 — 205 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 — 389 ratings — published 2022
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.64 — 5,976 ratings — published 2021
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,688 ratings — published 2020
“Forget rage, we don’t even have to ‘fight back’ against the machine. But we do have to perform one, all-important mind maneuver:
We must reclaim our attention and consciously choose a new way to focus it that is both self-directed and empowering.”
― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
We must reclaim our attention and consciously choose a new way to focus it that is both self-directed and empowering.”
― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality












