18 best-selling nonfiction books like The Combahee River Collective Statement by The Combahee River Collective

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The Combahee River Collective Statement

By: The Combahee River Collective

4.85

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Combahee River Collective Statement by The Combahee River Collective , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Freshwater

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more

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"It wasn’t me,"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

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2. The Principles of Communism

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
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3. To the Rural Poor

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.13

Format: 240 pages,

On 8th July, 1917, Alexander Kerensky became the new leader of the Provisional Government. Kerensky… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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5. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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6. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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7. A Dead Djinn in Cairo

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.66

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantm… read more

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8. Why Socialism?

By: Albert Einstein

4.09

Format: 12 pages, None

“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward socia…"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is …"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

"The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capit…"

-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

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9. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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10. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • nonfiction

11. SCUM Manifesto

By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more

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12. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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13. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

By: Dr. Seuss

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish is a 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel).… read more

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14. The Thing Around Your Neck

By: None

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more

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15. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

16. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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17. The Lonely Londoners

By: Sam Selvon

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more

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18. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

By: bell hooks

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory:… read more

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19. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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20. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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21. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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22. 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

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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23. Frankissstein: A Love Story

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.54

Format: 344 pages, ebook

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more

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"Yet I wish I had a cat."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

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24. Combat Liberalism

By: Mao Zedong

4.14

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
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25. Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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26. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

27. Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory

By: Judith Butler

4.10

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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28. The Combahee River Collective Statement

By: The Combahee River Collective

4.85

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • read for school
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29. Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith

By: Friedrich Engels

4.67

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

None read more

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30. The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto

By: Vikky Storm

3.90

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

A manifesto about the slow death of gender and trans and queer liberation through accelerating this… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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31. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics

By: Kimberlé Crenshaw

4.62

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction

10 Best feminism books like The Combahee River Collective Statement by The Combahee River Collective

Transform Your Habits

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

3.63

Transform Your Habits

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

Sophie Lewis

3.70

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8 must-read history books like The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Transform Your Habits

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

3.54

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