20 Books in 2025 on Environment Crisis, Race, Racism, Feminism, Social Justice, Addiction, and Poverty

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22 participants (174 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

In 2025, I'm trying to become more educated on the issues of our times like Environmen Crisis, Race, Racism, Feminism, Social Justice, Addiction, and Poverty. Knowing more means being able to be a better participant, ally, and advocate. To that end my goal is to read at least 15 books on these subjects.

Challenge Books

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How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming

How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

Crystal Marie Fleming

240 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

Angela J. Davis

336 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

270 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective medium-paced
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race

Derald Wing Sue

274 pages • digital • 2015 user-added

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Carol Anderson

288 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative medium-paced
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

448 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

Harriet A. Washington

369 pages • digital • 2019 user-added

nonfiction race science challenging informative slow-paced
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth by Andreas Malm

The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

Andreas Malm

144 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history politics
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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Virginia Eubanks

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Virginia Eubanks

283 pages • digital • 2018

Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom by Maya Wind

Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

Maya Wind

288 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction education history politics race sociology informative medium-paced