Recs if you like Meet Samantha: An American Girl...

ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind

*Short stories welcome. Looking for nonfiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite List.

a compendium of all the american girl doll/ pleasant company books for those of us who were raised by their trauma, strength, and bravery

the books you read during recess instead of playing kickball

Series I read as a kid that belong in every library.

A checklist of all the historical American Girls from Kaya to Isabel and Nicki, along with their friends. As of creating this list in November of 2026, this has all the girls in chronological/historical order. Any girls after that will be at the end.

Illiteracy via historic American Girl books