11 Best fiction books like Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe …

If you liked the fiction plot in Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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2. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Gurba's Creep: Accusations and Confessions book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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3. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
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4. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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5. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

Similar categories in Noor Hindi's Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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6. The Lost Cause

By: Cory Doctorow

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • politics
  • fiction
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7. Swim Home to the Vanished

By: Brendan Shay Basham

3.35

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the river swallowed Kai, Damien’s little brother didn’t die so much as vanish. As the unbea… read more

Similar categories in Brendan Shay Basham's Swim Home to the Vanished book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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9. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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10. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • politics
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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11. Dykette

By: Jenny Fran Davis

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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12. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

Similar categories in Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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13. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
  • queer
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14. The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r… read more

Similar categories in Sim Kern's The Free People's Village book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • lgbt
  • politics
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
  • queer
  • lgbt
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

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17. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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18. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

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20. The 7-10 Split (Peach Blossom, #1)

By: Karmen Lee

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This is how love rolls… For teacher Ava Williams, some subjects are not up for debate. Like his… read more

Similar categories in Karmen Lee's The 7-10 Split (Peach Blossom, #1) book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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21. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

Similar categories in M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • new york
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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22. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.98

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more

Similar categories in Kōhei Saitō's Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
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23. A Country of Ghosts

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But w… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's A Country of Ghosts book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • lgbt
  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I’ll never figure out if I’m supposed to let worry get the best of me,"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

"All people are free. When we speak of freedom, we acknowledge that freedom is a relationship between the people of the society. This relationship of freedom is created by the means of mutual respect,…"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

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24. Blood Orange

By: Yaffa As

4.60

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more

Similar categories in Yaffa As's Blood Orange book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • lgbt
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

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25. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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26. The Trinity of Fundamentals

By: Wisam Rafeedie

4.62

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s (PYM) Popular Unive… read more

Similar categories in Wisam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
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27. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)

By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth

4.15

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Ochieng Okoth's Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions) book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • politics
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28. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

By: Cecilia Gentili

4.69

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvent… read more

Similar categories in Cecilia Gentili's Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • lgbt
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29. Cimqa

By: Auriane Velten

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah a 6 ans quand survient le repli. Depuis, des créatures, ou des objets, apparaissent pendant q… read more

Similar categories in Auriane Velten's Cimqa book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • science fiction
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30. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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31. Diana & Charlie

By: Elias Ericson

4.06

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Diana och Charlie ramlar omkring. De är 17 år, transpersoner och bästa vänner. Deras liv och relati… read more

Similar categories in Elias Ericson's Diana & Charlie book and M.E. O'Brien's Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

  • queer
  • lgbt

16 must-read politics books like Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

Noor Hindi

4.52

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Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

3.26

Transform Your Habits

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Michelle Porter

3.84

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