Leftist Nonfiction - Lets Read Our TBR!! - hosted by freckled_frog_boi

Read about Prison Abolition/ ACAB
This is a large category and hopefully will allow you to explore the many genres within this, like poetry, short stories, or memoir. 
A well-known author to look into for this prompt is Angela Davis. I definitely have waited too long to read her works.
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

Angela J. Davis

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Abolitionist Papers

Mariame Kaba

206 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Keri Blakinger

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Folter im 21. Jahrhundert: Auf dem Weg in ein neues Mittelalter? by Alexander Bahar

Folter im 21. Jahrhundert: Auf dem Weg in ein neues Mittelalter?

Alexander Bahar

300 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime medium-paced
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law

“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

Myths Made in America

Victoria Law

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Elizabeth Hinton

408 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

752 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime challenging informative slow-paced
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris Dixon

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris Dixon

347 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender race sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis

250 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race sociology informative reflective medium-paced