8 best-selling social justice books like Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World by Frederick Joseph

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Similar categories in Zaretta Lynn Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• race
• nonfiction
• social justice
• education

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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• audiobook

"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Similar categories in Kindra Neely's Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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• audiobook

"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Similar categories in Amber Ruffin's You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• race
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

"There are worse stories than this and better ones. The reaction always varies because you can only put up with what you can put up with when you can put up with it."

-Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

"I have never been able to understand why white people have such a low tolerance for hearing about racism. I mean, we have to live it! The least you could do is nod your head."

-Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

"We are not into trying to educate white America, but may we accidentally did. Maybe white readers learned that just because your Black friends aren't sitting you down, going over all their trauma wit…"

-Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

"There is no motivation for this action. It seems like this story is missing a part because people just aren’t this nonsensically cruel. But where you see no motivation, you understand racism a little…"

-Amber Ruffin, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism

Similar categories in Gabrielle Stanley Blair's Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's We Deserve Monuments book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4) book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• childrens
• audiobook

Similar categories in David Levithan's Ryan and Avery book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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"When Ryan's pickup appears within the snowfall, Avery's heart becomes the opposite of snowfall-that strange, windblown moment when you look and see the snow is actually drifting upward. Snowrise. Whe…"

-David Levithan, Ryan and Avery

Similar categories in Jessi Klein's I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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• audiobook

"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Similar categories in Jada Pinkett Smith's Worthy book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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Similar categories in Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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Similar categories in Kate Kennedy's One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Similar categories in Julie Murphy's Snow Place Like LA book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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Similar categories in Jimmy O. Yang's How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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"Top Five Chinese Rules 1. Respect your parents, your elders and your teachers. Never talk back or challenge them under any circumstance. 2. Education is the most important thing. It's more important …"

-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

"I take pride in playing immigrant characters. I've come across people who had a negative opinion about playing Asian characters that have an accent. I've even met Asian actors who won't audition for …"

-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

"From eating at El Pollo Loco salsa bar to the Golden Globes buffet, I managed to stumble through this journey with the perseverance of an immigrant and the mindset of an American. I learned to thrive…"

-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

Similar categories in Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• nonfiction
• social justice

Similar categories in Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• race
• nonfiction
• social justice
• audiobook

"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Similar categories in Bree Paulsen's Garlic and the Witch book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• childrens

Similar categories in Regina Jackson's White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• race
• nonfiction
• social justice
• social issues
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jen Psaki's Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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• audiobook

"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Similar categories in Kathryn J. Edin's The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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• social justice
• audiobook

Similar categories in Clare Beams's The Garden book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

Similar categories in Phoebe Robinson's Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

Similar categories in Keah Brown's The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• race
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"There is power and excitement in reclaiming things that were once used to hurt or demean you."

-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

"I know that I'm not the first person in the world to say "I love music; it saved me." But that doesn't make it less true."

-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

"Power is tricky to navigate; to understand it you have to lay the groundwork for what makes you powerful in the first place."

-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

"Beyoncé said it best in "Haunted": "Perfection is so...mmm," and what she means is that the idea of perfection is so boring, so overdone and outdated."

-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me

Similar categories in Dylan Marron's Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Twenty-Four Seconds from Now... book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

Similar categories in Sami Sage's Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• activism
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"

-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

Similar categories in Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

• race
• childrens
• sustainability
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism
• social issues
• education
• environment
• audiobook

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Staged (Busybodies Collection, #1) book and Frederick Joseph's Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World

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