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

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

296 pages • 2010 • 25 editions

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged by Kimberly Jones

How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

Kimberly Jones

192 pages • 2022 • 4 editions

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Saira Rao, Regina Jackson

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

Saira Rao, Regina Jackson

173 pages • 2022 • 7 editions

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

Sandy Tolan

369 pages • 2006 • 13 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

260 pages • 1987 • 24 editions

nonfiction essays feminism poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr.

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Vine Deloria Jr.

296 pages • 1969 • 7 editions

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney

316 pages • 1972 • 25 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Revolutionary Suicide

Huey P. Newton

333 pages • 1973 • 10 editions

nonfiction history memoir politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Ilan Pappé

320 pages • 2006 • 32 editions

nonfiction history politics dark informative sad slow-paced
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

320 pages • 2020 • 16 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced