Reading Toward Resistance

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22 participants (62 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. 

Challenge Books

All books added
Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution by Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

Bernie Sanders

3 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Emergent Strategy #1

adrienne maree brown

403 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction essays feminism politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

2 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 1963

nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Free to Obey: Management from Nazism to the Present Day by Johann Chapoutot

Free to Obey: Management from Nazism to the Present Day

Johann Chapoutot

128 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction business history informative reflective medium-paced
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Farah Jasmine Griffin

240 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction essays history memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer

Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer

12 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

White Tears/Brown Scars

Ruby Hamad

304 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape by Tricia Hersey

We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape

Rest is Resistance #2

Tricia Hersey

160 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction philosophy politics race self help hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones

Abolitionist Intimacies

El Jones

9 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2022

nonfiction essays poetry politics race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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

10 hours, 54 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction race informative medium-paced