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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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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law by Richard Rothstein, Leah Rothstein

Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

Richard Rothstein, Leah Rothstein

352 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history politics hopeful informative medium-paced
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian F. Haney-López
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
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Ian F. Haney-López

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Ian F. Haney-López

303 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced
When Police Kill by Franklin E. Zimring

When Police Kill

Franklin E. Zimring

320 pages • 2017

nonfiction politics science challenging dark informative slow-paced
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

432 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction politics sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Deirdre Cooper Owens

182 pages • digital • 2017

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative slow-paced
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

277 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

244 pages • paperback • 2001

nonfiction economics politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

476 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

296 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

320 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction history politics race young adult challenging informative reflective fast-paced