Reading Toward Resistance

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22 participants (59 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

All books added
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
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • paperback • 1993

fiction classics dystopian literary speculative fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
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