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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Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937 by Lucy E. Parsons

Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937

Lucy E. Parsons

184 pages • digital • 2004 user-added

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Feminist Manifesto by He-Yin Zhen

The Feminist Manifesto

Radical Reprint

He-Yin Zhen

32 pages • digital user-added

nonfiction feminism gender politics reference informative medium-paced
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Sandra Uwiringiyimana

6 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Ilyon Woo

416 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction history race adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay

Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture

Zeba Blay

6 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction art essays feminism race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Where Have All the Bees Gone?: Pollinators in Crisis by Rebecca E. Hirsch

Where Have All the Bees Gone?: Pollinators in Crisis

Rebecca E. Hirsch

143 pages • digital • 2020 user-added

nonfiction middle grade science informative medium-paced
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowrey

Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

Annie Lowrey

272 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction economics politics sociology reflective slow-paced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

12 hours, 30 minutes • audio • 2010

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Manjula Martin

352 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction memoir science medium-paced
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Camille T. Dungy

10 hours, 16 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction memoir nature race challenging informative reflective medium-paced