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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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 • 2023 • 6 editions

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

Border Abolition Now

Simon Campbell, Brian Whitener, Kathryn Medien, Sara Riva

272 pages • 1 edition

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

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

235 pages • 2024 • 18 editions

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

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • 2003 • 23 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
On Palestine by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

On Palestine

Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

215 pages • 2015 • 16 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

394 pages • 1978 • 56 editions

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • 2015 • 34 editions

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

331 pages • 2020 • 12 editions

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

232 pages • 1952 • 51 editions

nonfiction philosophy politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

The Anatomy of Fascism

Robert O. Paxton

336 pages • 2004 • 18 editions

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced