Recs if you like The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide...

Intersectional books about anti-capitalism, economic injustice, and imagining better futures of interdependence and reciprocity

If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer

Books about sexual & reproductive justice + health. Including abortion, contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, kink, sexuality, STIs, and more. The term reproductive justice is from SisterSong and is inherently an intersectional, political, and affirming framework. BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled perspectives highlighted.

Niche nonfiction books that dads are still likely to enjoy that either 1) are not military history at all or 2) a niche area of a war that is not military history

This podcast might not actually kill you, but it covers so many things that can.

A compilation of the selections found in the special book club episodes of This Podcast Will Kill You, a podcast about disease ecology, history, and medical mysteries! (Hosted by Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke.)

This list was generated from a post on pagebound club on Juneteenth in 2026. I opted to not try and make this list comprehensive but just to document the community recs from that day - however, if you have more books to recommend please comment in the forum! Prompts from the original post will be in the comments. Note: prompts asked for books by Black authors, not only those from/books set in the US. See comments section for more discussion.

Why we need a revolution and how we get there

A collection of books on minorities and discrimination and other things your white friends should educate themselves on.

despite collective abandonment and effective propaganda, the pandemic is ongoing. COVID continues to kill and maim people as it spreads unmitigated worldwide. these are books crucial to the study of the public health realities we’re up against as eugenics and fascism escalate - from disability justice to science communication to social movement histories.

Books about HIV/AIDS. Both contemporary and historical. Emphasis on intersectionality.

niche nonfiction deep dives

Books from This Podcast Will Kill You book club

I’m currently a first year student at a graduate level Social Work program. These are recommendations from my professors and helpful readings that I found that I believe will make me a better social worker and highly recommend to current and future social workers! I’ll continue to update as I continue and even complete my studies 💜

Note: The American Social Welfare Policy book I listed is for the 6th edition; I highly recommend the 9th edition instead, Stoesz’s insights are very helpful