Reading Toward Resistance

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21 participants (50 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

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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
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

260 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr.

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Vine Deloria Jr.

296 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney

316 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Revolutionary Suicide

Huey P. Newton

333 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Ilan Pappé

320 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative sad slow-paced
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

313 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
What Is to Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin

What Is to Be Done?

Vladimir Lenin

272 pages • first pub 1902 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Vladimir Lenin

192 pages • first pub 1917 (editions)

nonfiction politics dark slow-paced