Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State
By: Lyle C. May
4.80
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature. In Witness , Lyle C. May o…
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1. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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2. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
3. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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4. The Question of Palestine
By: None
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most re… read more
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5. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more
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6. Cat's Cradle
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more
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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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"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
8. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
By: Jehad Abusalim
4.70
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more
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9. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
10. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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11. Evil Eye
By: Etaf Rum
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more
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"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye
12. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
13. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
14. Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
By: Sumaya Awad
4.36
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in soc… read more
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"Interestingly, the "Zioness Movement" sprouted on the US activist scene with the explicit intention to counter feminists who were successfully denouncing Zionism. It chose the slogan, "Unabashedly pr…"-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
"White/Western feminism's attempt at erasing the political context of Palestinian women's oppression was evident yet again around the 2017 Women's March on Washington, when liberal feminists objected …"-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
"The Black radical tradition calls attention to the anti-Black racism essential to US society and casts doubt on the compatibility of Black freedom and the United States project. After all, the Black …"-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
15. A Short History of Trans Misogyny
By: Jules Gill-Peterson
4.47
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more
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16. No More Police: A Case for Abolition
By: Mariame Kaba
4.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more
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17. Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden
By: Branko Marcetic
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political valuesYesterday’s Man exposes… read more
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18. The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian
By: Arundhati Roy
4.16
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, touchin… read more
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19. Nazar Boy
By: Tarik Dobbs
4.48
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of f… read more
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20. Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition
By: Calvin John Smiley
4.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A collection of illuminating interviews with leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers, reflecti… read more
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21. Unite and Win: The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook
By: Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)
4.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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22. Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State
By: Lyle C. May
4.80
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature. In Witness , Lyle C. May o… read more
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23. 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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"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
24. Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
By: Tracy Rosenthal
4.57
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Both a forceful polemic and a practical guide, Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engine… read more
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25. The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back From Anti-Lynching to Abolition
By: Jeanelle K. Hope
4.20
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascis… read more
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26. Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
By: Silky Shah
4.52
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to fulfill my proper function in the soci… read more
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27. Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia (Voice of Witness)
By: Katrina M. Powell
4.55
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Appalachia has been a place of movement and migration—for individuals, families, and entire communi… read more
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28. Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine
By: Mahdi Sabbagh
4.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A call to think differently and more concretely about the practice of solidarity, and a window into… read more
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29. China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry
By: Kevin Lin
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of a… read more
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30. Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care
By: Mimi E. Kim
4.72
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition an… read more
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31. Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More
By: Rob Larson
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Economist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the life… read more
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