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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

165 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Horrorstör

Grady Hendrix

248 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction horror thriller dark tense fast-paced
The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

Naomi Klein

96 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

298 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants by Phil Tiemeyer

Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants

Phil Tiemeyer

288 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative medium-paced
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

Kikuko Tsumura

416 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced