Montana Book Company 2023 Reading Challenge - hosted by supposedlyfun

Read a fiction or nonfiction book about social/political activism. (This is broad. Could be a how to, or a history book, or novel).
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What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action by Jane Fonda

What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action

Jane Fonda

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics science informative slow-paced
Nampally Road by Meena Alexander

Nampally Road

Meena Alexander

128 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction dark informative tense slow-paced
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of an Outspoken Woman and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of an Outspoken Woman and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Kate Moore

560 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee

256 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

284 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Acts of Resistance During World War II by Tamiko Nimura, Frank Abe

We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Acts of Resistance During World War II

Tamiko Nimura, Frank Abe

160 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel history informative reflective medium-paced
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

My Government Means to Kill Me

Rasheed Newson

276 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Maria Ressa

301 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

616 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced