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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The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation by Fred Pearce

The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation

Fred Pearce

272 pages • 2015

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

465 pages • digital • 2016 user-added

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide

Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

Steven Higashide

180 pages • digital • 2019 user-added

nonfiction design informative fast-paced
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged by Kimberly Jones

How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

Kimberly Jones

200 pages • digital • 2022 user-added

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall

208 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction feminism graphic novel history race informative reflective medium-paced
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon

Slavery by Another Name

Douglas A. Blackmon

496 pages • digital • 2008

nonfiction history race informative reflective sad slow-paced
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

432 pages • digital • 2021 user-added

nonfiction history memoir reflective medium-paced
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Zora Neale Hurston

256 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction biography history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Chasing the Runner's High: My Sixty Million-Step Program by Ray Charbonneau

Chasing the Runner's High: My Sixty Million-Step Program

Ray Charbonneau

293 pages • digital • 2010 user-added

nonfiction sports inspiring slow-paced
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke by Michael Punke

Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke

Michael Punke

332 pages • digital • 2007 user-added

nonfiction