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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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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
On Palestine by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

On Palestine

Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

215 pages • paperback • 2015

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

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

394 pages • paperback • 1978

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 • paperback • 2015

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

314 pages • paperback • 2020

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

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

232 pages • paperback • 1952

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 • hardcover • 2004

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced