Recs if you like Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City...
🫵 Books To Radicalize You 🫵
Non-fiction books that should make you: Re-contextualize your place in the world. Reassess the framework of your life. Strive to be radically kind. Pursue positive change. Become an anarchist, anit-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, etc. || My list is very North American centric and I would love global recommendations ||
Barack Obama's favorite books
All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.
You're not mad enough!
If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer
nonfiction to enrage and educate
reading is political.
recs welcome!
NYT Readers' Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.
Anti-Fascism Reads
a list of books to educate yourself on social and political topics
Period Poverty and Menstrual Health
A balanced journey from activism and policy to personal health, exploring how access to menstrual products intersects with poverty, dignity, and rights.
NYT Reader's Choice Top 100 21st Century
NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024
an Urban Planner's recs
books I can find on PB that my professor's and cohort reference
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
Nonfiction that feels like fiction
real stories just as strange and entertaining as fiction
cities are for people, not for cars
My personal curriculum reading list for a couple of deep dives I have planned, all under the same general category of urbanism, intersectionality, and how to make cities better. This has been a niche interest of mine for a while, but mostly just a thing I watch YouTube videos about. Now I'm looking to dive a bit deeper! I'll add books as I build out my "curriculums" & if you have any suggestions pls let me know! I have a sister list about public transportation.
understanding & dismantling systems that hurt us
learn what those in power have done to us across industry and government throughout American history, learn about the oppressive systems that need razing, and help create a dignified, fulfilling future for all of us. Recs welcome!!
NYT’s The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review
activism 101
Books that started my activism journey & books that I really want to read. Covering animal rights, capitalism, intersectional feminism, black liberation, workers rights, climate change, palestine and more! I will keep on adding books!
Become radicalized
History repeats, and most of us need an education.
Includes classics on American history & contemporary looks at the many -ism’s that consume us. Some microhistories are also thrown in. See them as case studies.
This list is by no means exhaustive. Feel free to comment other titles!
a beginner's guide to public health
100 Best of the 21st Century
according to the New York Times
the system sucks and you WILL hear about it
Tired about the twisted, corrupt, cruel system we live in that advertises meritocratic „values“ at your face while in fact valuing capital and control over everything else, to the detriment of everyone else, but most of all those that are in need of basic necessities but Nooo The B***ionaires need the 50 ply organic locally grown grass fed chemical free sulfate free ad free HD ultra lite premium ecofriendly recyclable recyled child safe consumption safe 10-in-1 deluxe toiletpaper!
NYT Readers' Choice Best Books of the 21st Century
How many have you read?
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