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Community Minded
Read a nonfiction book that's on your TBR because you think it will lead you to be a better member of your community. This could be your geographic community, a demographic or identity-based community, or another form of community in your life.
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Get Together: How to build a community with your people by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Kai Elmer Sotto

Get Together: How to build a community with your people

Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Kai Elmer Sotto

192 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction business informative inspiring medium-paced
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Tori Telfer

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative fast-paced
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting by Rachel Shteir

The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting

Rachel Shteir

256 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology true crime challenging informative slow-paced
Café Society by

Café Society

208 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art computer science science technology informative medium-paced
Unlikeable Female Characters by Anna Bogutskaya

Unlikeable Female Characters

Anna Bogutskaya

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism funny informative reflective medium-paced
Young Queer America: Real Stories and Faces of LGBTQ+ Youth by Isis King, Maxwell Poth

Young Queer America: Real Stories and Faces of LGBTQ+ Youth

Isis King, Maxwell Poth

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography gender lgbtqia+ memoir young adult emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Hunt Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America by Krista Burton

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Hunt Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America

Krista Burton

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir travel funny hopeful informative medium-paced
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Lorenzo Marquez, Tom Fitzgerald

Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life

Lorenzo Marquez, Tom Fitzgerald

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ funny informative medium-paced
It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History by Mic Crenshaw, Erin Yanke, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, Moe Bowstern

It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History

Mic Crenshaw, Erin Yanke, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, Moe Bowstern

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

Danya Ruttenberg

243 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion informative inspiring reflective medium-paced