6 must-read history books like The Fourth World: An Indian Reality by George Manuel

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The Fourth World: An Indian Reality

By: George Manuel

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print Originally published in 1974, The Fou…

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1. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i

By: Haunani-Kay Trask

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Since its publication in 1993, From a Native Daughter, a provocative, well-reasoned attack against … read more

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2. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith

4.25

Format: None pages,

From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more

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3. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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4. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

By: None

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more

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5. Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism

By: Aileen Moreton-Robinson

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Revealing the invisible position of power and privilege in feminist practice, this accessible and p… read more

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6. Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more

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7. Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

3.68

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more

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"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

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8. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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9. Somebody's Daughter

By: Ashley C. Ford

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm j…"

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

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10. Rehearsals for Living

By: Robyn Maynard

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
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11. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"

-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

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12. Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978

By: Geoffrey Phillip Levin

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensit… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Cuba: An American History

By: Ada Ferrer

4.45

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History ​“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)

By: Olivia Dade

3.64

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. The world may know him as Aeneas, star of the biggest show on tele… read more

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"His home was filled with valuables, even if he currently felt worthless."

-Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)

"Heidi looked thoughtful. “Mel, darling, are you thinking what I’m thinking?"

-Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)

"she loved shiny things, always had. But he wasn't a diamond. Just fool's gold."

-Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)

"Could he even call whatever emotion they felt for him love, when they didn’t either understand or respect anything he did, anything he was?"

-Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)

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15. All of Us Villains (All of Us Villains, #1)

By: Amanda Foody

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark… read more

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"Her touch was cold, but his was colder"

-Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains (All of Us Villains, #1)

"Survival could make villains of any of us."

-Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains (All of Us Villains, #1)

"In this story, the princess slayed the dragon."

-Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains (All of Us Villains, #1)

"Monsters couldn't harm you if you were a monster, too."

-Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains (All of Us Villains, #1)

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16. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By: Chelsea Vowel

4.13

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more

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  • indigenous
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17. The Fourth World: An Indian Reality

By: George Manuel

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print Originally published in 1974, The Fou… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • theory
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous history

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