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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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Elizabeth Hinton

432 pages • digital • 2021 user-added

nonfiction race informative medium-paced
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

William C. Rhoden

304 pages • digital • 2006

nonfiction history race sports challenging informative slow-paced
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

A Black Women's History of the United States

ReVisioning American History #5

Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

298 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

295 pages • digital • 2021 user-added

nonfiction biography feminism history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran

558 pages • digital • 2017 user-added

nonfiction economics history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

363 pages • digital • 2020 user-added

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

512 pages • digital • 2007

nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

528 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction essays history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

366 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

402 pages • digital • 2021 user-added

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced