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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How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism After the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Pedro Ross

How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism After the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Pedro Ross

288 pages • paperback

nonfiction history
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J. Davis

Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

Lennard J. Davis

228 pages • paperback • 1995

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

319 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

288 pages • paperback • 1903

nonfiction classics history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde

229 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction essays feminism poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O'Brien

Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

M.E. O'Brien

290 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Border Abolition Now by Kathryn Medien, Brian Whitener, Sara Riva, Simon Campbell

Border Abolition Now

Kathryn Medien, Brian Whitener, Sara Riva, Simon Campbell

272 pages • paperback

nonfiction essays politics sociology medium-paced
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

235 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced