11 must-read nonfiction books like Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin

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Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

By: Jamie Margolin

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Climate change activist and Zero Hour founder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changema…

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1. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

By: Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway

4.17

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, en… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Oreskes's Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming book and Jamie Margolin's Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
"An all purpose expert is an oxymoron"

-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

"The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions"

-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

"After the Cold War, most scientists were relieved to be freed of the burdens of secrecy and misrepresentation, but Seitz, Singer, and Nierenberg continued to act as if the Cold War had not ended."

-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

"...and that greater use of pesticides was the key to wiping out world hunger (although most social scientist disagree, pointing out that there is plenty of food in the world; the problem we face is o…"

-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

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2. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

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  • audiobook
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

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3. The Passion

By: Jeanette Winterson

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more

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4. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: * printed version of the … read more

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5. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

By: Naomi Klein

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • environment

6. My Heart and Other Black Holes

By: Jasmine Warga

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can … read more

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7. Maggie the Mechanic (Locas, #1)

By: Jaime Hernández

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rocketswill finally be released in its most acce… read more

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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Jamie Margolin's Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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9. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

By: Amanda Gorman

4.56

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

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10. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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  • audiobook
"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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11. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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12. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

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  • audiobook
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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13. Paying the Land

By: Joe Sacco

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To … read more

Similar categories in Joe Sacco's Paying the Land book and Jamie Margolin's Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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14. Play Like a Girl

By: Misty Wilson

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Debut author Misty Wilson chronicles her seventh-grade experience as the only girl on her town’s fo… read more

Similar categories in Misty Wilson's Play Like a Girl book and Jamie Margolin's Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

  • nonfiction
"There was no way the boys were gonna keep me on the sidelines. If they could play football, so could I. I was just gonna have to sign up, too."

-Misty Wilson, Play Like a Girl

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15. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

By: George Monbiot

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more

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  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
"Charity is what happens when government fails."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

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16. The Marvellers (The Conjureverse, #1)

By: Dhonielle Clayton

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Author Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magi… read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's The Marvellers (The Conjureverse, #1) book and Jamie Margolin's Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

  • audiobook
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17. Superman Smashes the Klan

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis. While Dr. Lee… read more

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18. 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary

By: Don Brown

3.98

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A young adult graphic novel that captures the complexities of the war in Ukraine, focusing on the s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teen
"When...there are explosions, you understand that your life is simply...not worth anything."

-Don Brown, 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary

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19. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

By: Valarie Kaur

4.54

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valari… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Wonder is the wellspring for love"

-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

"You are a part of me I do not yet know"

-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

"I believe laboring in joy is the meaning of life."

-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

"Grieving together, we ease each other’s suffering and come to know each other."

-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

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20. How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

By: Naomi Klein

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“[A] uniquely inclusive perspective that will inspire conviction, passion, and action.” — Kirkus Re… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other book and Jamie Margolin's Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • climate change
  • environment
  • audiobook
"The world does not have enough resources and energy to give everyone a life of consumer luxury. We could, though, improve everyone's uality of life in different ways."

-Naomi Klein, How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

"We need to build a society around the understanding that well-being for all matters more than economic growth. Only then can we truly move away from climate0changing pollution and climate injustice."

-Naomi Klein, How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

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21. Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

By: Jamie Margolin

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Climate change activist and Zero Hour founder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changema… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Margolin's Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It book and Jamie Margolin's Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

  • teen
  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • climate change
  • education
  • environment
  • audiobook

11 Top audiobook books like Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin

Transform Your Habits

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Amanda Gorman

4.56

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31 Best middle grade books like Play Like a Girl by Misty Wilson

Transform Your Habits

Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas

4.28

Transform Your Habits

A First Time for Everything

Dan Santat

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Mascot

Charles Waters

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Speak Up!

Rebecca Burgess

4.21

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