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The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,195,535 ratings — published 2015
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,482 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.29 — 111,747 ratings — published 2017
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,465,945 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,555,287 ratings — published 1948
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.27 — 37,434 ratings — published 1947
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,694 ratings — published 1968
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (The Resistance #1)
by (shelved 17 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,887 ratings — published 2011
It Can't Happen Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,178 ratings — published 1935
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,042 ratings — published 2004
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,004,406 ratings — published 2014
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.00 — 129,153 ratings — published 2012
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,433 ratings — published 2010
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,436 ratings — published 1980
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,022,921 ratings — published 2008
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,160 ratings — published 1961
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,300 ratings — published 2016
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler – Sibert Honor History of Hans and Sophie Scholl for Kids (Ages 10-12)
by (shelved 13 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,004 ratings — published 2016
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,689 ratings — published 1971
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,882,956 ratings — published 1953
The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,857 ratings — published 2007
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,767,392 ratings — published 2010
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,497 ratings — published 1984
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,628,892 ratings — published 1945
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.20 — 626,188 ratings — published 1989
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,993 ratings — published 2021
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,233,109 ratings — published 1947
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.98 — 737 ratings — published 2011
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.43 — 394,840 ratings — published 2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,721 ratings — published 2016
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 10 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,365 ratings — published 1963
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,099,885 ratings — published 1932
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.44 — 306,801 ratings — published 2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,293 ratings — published 2020
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,120 ratings — published 1951
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.06 — 449,744 ratings — published 2016
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.29 — 346,220 ratings — published 2016
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.49 — 92,173 ratings — published 2007
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.59 — 53,072 ratings — published 2025
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,253 ratings — published 2024
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.14 — 493,133 ratings — published 2022
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,724 ratings — published 2022
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,427 ratings — published 2021
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.25 — 17,282 ratings — published 2018
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.20 — 433,082 ratings — published 2019
Resistance (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,567 ratings — published 2018
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,074 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,057 ratings — published 2015
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 3.97 — 120,063 ratings — published 2002
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as resistance)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,209,856 ratings — published 2009
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. ”
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“One of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption in hindsight of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening, while the land is still being stolen, and the natives still being killed, any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight. I tell stories for a living and there’s a thick thread of narrative by well-meaning white Westerners that exalts the native populations in so many parts of the world for standing up to the occupiers. Makes of their narrative a neat, reflexive arc in which it was always understood by the colonized and, this part implied, the descendants of the colonizer, that what happened was wrong.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This












