Read to RESIST

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23 participants (94 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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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Rafia Zakaria

6 hours, 24 minutes • audio • 2021

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 • audio • 2014

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 • hardcover • 2023

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

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

211 pages • digital • 1970

fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad 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 • hardcover • 2017

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 • digital • 2015 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 • audio • 2019

nonfiction memoir poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum

207 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history politics informative fast-paced
The Origins of Totalitarianism: With a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum by Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalitarianism: With a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum

Hannah Arendt

576 pages • paperback • 1951

nonfiction history philosophy politics sociology
Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

104 pages • paperback • 1776

nonfiction classics history philosophy informative reflective slow-paced