Quest to Lighten My Non-Fiction TBR - hosted by misfitmoxie

Social Awareness
Examples are gender equality, race equality, sexual equality, understanding of neuro-divergency, universal human right, etc.
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Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by ohd, sarah pipher gilliam, mary pipher

Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

ohd, sarah pipher gilliam, mary pipher

448 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Angela Chen

7 hours, 43 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ sociology informative reflective medium-paced
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

256 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

Dashka Slater

320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ true crime young adult challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Finding Me by Viola Davis

Finding Me

Viola Davis

291 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out by Aph Ko

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out

Aph Ko

168 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

266 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays health lgbtqia+ sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist) by Albert Woodfox

Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

Albert Woodfox

414 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

102 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced