Reading Toward Resistance

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21 participants (58 books)

24 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read more nonfiction books centered on resistance, revolution, power critiques, etc. I'm aiming for one a month because they tend to be harder to get through. 

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Challenge Books

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Unbought And Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm

Unbought And Unbossed

Shirley Chisholm

5 hours, 10 minutes • audio • 1970

nonfiction history memoir politics informative inspiring medium-paced
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

320 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Abolitionist Papers

Mariame Kaba

240 pages • digital • 2021

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

353 pages • digital • 2022

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles

The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Rosalind Miles

12 hours, 3 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

544 pages • digital • 1965

nonfiction autobiography history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

274 pages • paperback • 1987

nonfiction autobiography memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

176 pages • digital • 2015

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

10 hours, 42 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction feminism politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

159 pages • paperback • 1953

fiction classics dystopian science fiction dark reflective tense medium-paced