Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.47
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor…
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1. No Name in the Street
By: James Baldwin
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seve… read more
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- nonfiction
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2. The January Children
By: Kwame Dawes , Safia Elhillo
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan unde… read more
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3. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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4. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.47
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more
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- theory
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- audiobook
5. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
6. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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7. 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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8. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
9. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more
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10. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- audiobook
11. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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12. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
By: Lauren Markham
4.08
Format: 263 pages, ebook
A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more
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- audiobook
13. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
By: Bettina L. Love
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more
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- audiobook
14. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
15. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- audiobook
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
16. You Get What You Pay For: Essays
By: Morgan Parker
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
17. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
18. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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19. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
20. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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21. It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On
By: Malaika Jabali
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A biting, brilliant, often hilarious guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists who know it’s … read more
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