14 must-read audiobook books like No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel

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No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education

By: Leigh Patel

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Examines how student protest against structural inequalities on campus pushes academic institutions…

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1. A Dead Djinn in Cairo

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.66

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantm… read more

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2. The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.97

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more

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  • audiobook
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

3. Death Comes to Pemberley

By: None

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwill… read more

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4. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By: Roxane Gay

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more

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5. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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7. Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more

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  • audiobook
"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

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8. The Chosen and the Beautiful

By: Nghi Vo

3.55

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s Ame… read more

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"It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"You weren't meant to look at people the way that Lieutenant Gatsby looked at Daisy Fay. You couldn't peel your skin back and show them how your heart had gone up in flames, how nothing that had come …"

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

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9. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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10. Nowhere for Very Long

By: Brianna Madia

4.11

Format: 304 pages, ebook

In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures in an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways."

-Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long

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11. A Third University Is Possible (Forerunners: Ideas First)

By: La Paperson

4.39

Format: 73 pages, Paperback

A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land… read more

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  • academia
  • history
  • politics
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • education
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12. Ayesha at Last

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love. Ayesha Shamsi has a lot g… read more

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  • audiobook
"No, she is not with child,"

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

"[Khalid] took a deep, calming breath, and smiled at her, channeling his inner shark. Or at least, dolphin."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

"Your defect is a tendency to judge everyone,' Ayesha said. 'And yours,' he said with a smile, 'is to willfully misunderstand them."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

"Your presence in a relationship is not indicative of commitment but rather inertia. Standing before your friends and family and pledging your love and loyalty is an essential ingredient of a long-las…"

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

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13. How to Raise an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
"To raise an antiracist is to raise a critical thinker. And to raise a critical thinker is to raise an antiracist."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Caregivers must model a critical home, a critical classroom, a critical community, for kids to defy and question everything that’s questionable."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Literacy is not an end. Literacy should be taught as a means to critical thinking. Knowledge isn't an end. Knowledge is a means to critical thinking. The smartest student is not the student who is th…"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

"Instead of calling these IB and AP courses "gifted" classes, I call them privileged classes. The students in the classes are privileged. Colleges give preferential treatment to students who take thes…"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

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14. You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more

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  • audiobook
"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

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15. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

4.25

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

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16. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

By: Sara Ahmed

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"

-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

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17. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

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"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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18. No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

By: Julian Aguon

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disast… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Imagination: A Manifesto

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of strug… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education

By: Leigh Patel

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Examines how student protest against structural inequalities on campus pushes academic institutions… read more

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  • academia
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • teaching
  • academic
  • college
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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21. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

7 must-read history books like No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel

Transform Your Habits

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Third University Is Possible (Forerunners: Ideas First)

La Paperson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings

4.25

Transform Your Habits

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

Julian Aguon

4.29

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8 best-selling history books like Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

Transform Your Habits

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Third University Is Possible (Forerunners: Ideas First)

La Paperson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes

4.64

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