Reading Toward Resistance

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21 participants (49 books)

24 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read more nonfiction books centered on resistance, revolution, power critiques, etc. I'm aiming for one a month because they tend to be harder to get through. 

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Challenge Books

All books added
A Knock on the Door by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

A Knock on the Door

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

296 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative sad slow-paced
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

White Tears/Brown Scars

Ruby Hamad

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape by Tricia Hersey

We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape

Tricia Hersey

160 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics race self help hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones

Abolitionist Intimacies

El Jones

9 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays poetry politics race emotional 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

10 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction race informative medium-paced
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged by Kimberly Jones

How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

Kimberly Jones

192 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Saira Rao, Regina Jackson

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

Saira Rao, Regina Jackson

173 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

Sandy Tolan

369 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin DiAngelo

6 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics race sociology 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

16 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced