14 must-read nonfiction books like Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance by Sara Roy

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Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance

By: Sara Roy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'Roy is humanely and professionally committed in ways that are unmatched by any other non-Palestini…

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1. Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

By: To Be Announced , Max Blumenthal

2.74

Format: None pages, Audio CD

In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badl… read more

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2. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

3. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

By: None , Keith Gessen

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more

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4. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

By: Omar Barghouti

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

International boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) efforts helped topple South Africa's brutal … read more

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5. Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010

By: None

4.19

Format: 168 pages,

Israeli soldiers speak out for the first time about the truth of the Palestinian occupation, in "on… read more

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6. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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7. Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration… read more

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"I use the word “God"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"This “Hawking temperature"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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8. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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9. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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10. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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11. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

Format: 590 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more

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12. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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13. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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14. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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15. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

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"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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16. 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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17. Squire

By: Nadia Shammas

4.06

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more

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18. The Other Black Girl

By: Zakiya Dalila Harris

3.36

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two you… read more

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"Locs or no locs, though… you know one of your coworkers is gonna mix you and the new Black girl up at least once. I promise you."

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"OBGs. "Other Black Girls," Lynn had dubbed them, "because they're not our kind." They were something else entirely. Something close to alien...."

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"At a historically Black college, Diana had been granted the blessed gift of tunnel vision. She'd been blessed with the ability to forget white people existed, if only for a little while. I had been b…"

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

"..eight or nine women and one extremely serious-looking man had decided to spend their Monday evening exercising with a demonic workout instructor n the Flatbush District rather than doing something …"

-Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

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19. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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20. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

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Cover of Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis

21. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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Cover of Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life by Scott Branson

22. Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

By: Scott Branson

4.07

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From … read more

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23. Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance

By: Sara Roy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'Roy is humanely and professionally committed in ways that are unmatched by any other non-Palestini… read more

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15 Top audiobook books like The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

Transform Your Habits

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Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

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

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim

4.70

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