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 Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages • digital • 2010

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease by Arleen Marcia Tuchman

Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease

Arleen Marcia Tuchman

288 pages • 2020

challenging informative slow-paced
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

464 pages • digital • 2014

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond by Selene Yeager, Stacy T. Sims

Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond

Selene Yeager, Stacy T. Sims

320 pages • paperback

nonfiction health emotional reflective medium-paced
Dirty Laundry: Why adults with ADHD are so ashamed and what we can do to help by Richard Pink, Roxanne Emery

Dirty Laundry: Why adults with ADHD are so ashamed and what we can do to help

Richard Pink, Roxanne Emery

144 pages • digital • 2023 user-added

nonfiction psychology self help hopeful informative reflective fast-paced
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

A Brief History Series #1

Yuval Noah Harari

450 pages • paperback • 2011

nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

Carol F. Karlsen

370 pages • paperback • 1987

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

319 pages • digital • 2014

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World by Kate Schapira

Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World

Kate Schapira

256 pages • digital • 2024 user-added

nonfiction nature science hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

353 pages • digital • 2005 user-added

nonfiction historical history challenging informative slow-paced