Read to RESIST

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24 participants (80 books)

05 Feb 2025—05 Dec 2025

Overview

Reading is resistance! 

Join me in opposition of oligarchy, fascism, censorship, and injustice. 

Let’s read what they don’t want us to read! Knowledge is power. 

I tried to curate a varied list of books to choose from, including banned books, but this is by no means an exhaustive list. Some of them I have read, but many I have not yet. 

Join me on my quest for more knowledge and follow along with my Read to RESIST Challenge!

Challenge Books

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

176 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Rafia Zakaria

6 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

11 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

363 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

211 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Babel by R.F. Kuang

Babel

R.F. Kuang

558 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy X. Lee

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

Bandy X. Lee

360 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology challenging informative slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

218 pages • first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

Shout

Laurie Halse Anderson

3 hours, 48 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced