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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Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest by Morag Livingstone, Matt Foot

Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest

Morag Livingstone, Matt Foot

336 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics
The Global Police State by William I Robinson

The Global Police State

William I Robinson

208 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

388 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative slow-paced
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Can Make Cops Obsolete by Geo Maher

A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Can Make Cops Obsolete

Geo Maher

282 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence by Elsa Dorlin

Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence

Elsa Dorlin

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing by Lesley J. Wood

Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing

Lesley J. Wood

205 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative slow-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
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire

Angela Y. Davis

136 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Y. Davis

The Prison Industrial Complex

Angela Y. Davis

1 hour • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics informative medium-paced
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago by Flint Taylor

The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago

Flint Taylor

556 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging dark informative slow-paced