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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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

183 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction education philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

558 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism After the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Pedro Ross

How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism After the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Pedro Ross

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J. Davis

Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

Lennard J. Davis

228 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

319 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

288 pages • first pub 1903 (editions)

nonfiction classics history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde

229 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O'Brien

Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

M.E. O'Brien

290 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Border Abolition Now by Kathryn Medien, Brian Whitener, Sara Riva, Simon Campbell

Border Abolition Now

Kathryn Medien, Brian Whitener, Sara Riva, Simon Campbell

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction essays politics sociology medium-paced
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

235 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced