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We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

Malala Yousafzai

224 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism memoir emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

288 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction business history politics challenging emotional informative medium-paced
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

Rashid Khalidi

281 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective medium-paced
Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful by Jolyon Maugham

Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

Jolyon Maugham

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography politics
In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet

In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

7 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative reflective medium-paced
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Masha Gessen

308 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Korea: The Impossible Country by Daniel Tudor

Korea: The Impossible Country

Daniel Tudor

312 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide by Lynsey Hanley

Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide

Lynsey Hanley

240 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

James C. Scott

464 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

Joshua Hammer

9 hours, 2 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced