7 must-read history books like Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions by déqui kioni-sadiki

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Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

By: déqui kioni-sadiki

4.52

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Amid music festivals and moon landings, the tumultuous year of 1969 included an infamous case in th…

If you liked the history plot in Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions by déqui kioni-sadiki , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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2. Lincoln in the Bardo

By: George Saunders

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more

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3. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

4. My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain

By: Aaron Dixon , Judson L. Jeffries

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

In an era of stark racial injustice, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to revolution, founding the Sea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • social justice

5. Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , Stokely Carmichael

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fig… read more

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6. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more

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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

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7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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8. The Mercies

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

4.01

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village s… read more

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"Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be…"

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"This is your land?' 'No.' The girl's tone was firm as her gaze. 'We only lived here."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

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9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich

3.95

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more

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"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

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11. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

By: Cinzia Arruzza

4.03

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"What we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole—and its root cause is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

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12. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By: Rebecca Hall

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

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13. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

By: Orisanmi Burton

4.81

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitioni… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

By: Jenny Brown

4.37

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An indispensable guide to abortion access in America, and a necessary argument for building a fight… read more

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  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

By: déqui kioni-sadiki

4.52

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Amid music festivals and moon landings, the tumultuous year of 1969 included an infamous case in th… read more

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Michael Parenti

4.41

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Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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Cinzia Arruzza

4.03

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4.81

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Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Claire Keegan

4.18

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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