ps. looking for more diverse recs since my reads are mostly focused on politics and sociology, so if you have a rec from really any other topic, please leave it in the comments!
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Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America's Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them
Carol Spencer
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Austin Kleon
Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist
Albert Camus
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Barbara Ehrenreich
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
Thomas Sankara
Tumblr Porn (Remember the Internet, vol. 1)
Ana Valens
Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects
Levon Biss
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade
The Short Instructional Manifesto for Relationship Anarchy
Andie Nordgren
The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes
Michel Pastoureau
Support and Seduction: The History of Corsets and Bras
BĂŠatrice Fontanel
Not the Future We Ordered: Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress
John Michael Greer
Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
James Williams
10 Reasons to Love a Lion
Catherine Barr
A Decolonial Feminism
Françoise Vergès
I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
Kate Baer
The Art of Always Being Right
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
A Room of Oneâs Own
Virginia Woolf
Information: A Very Short Introduction
Luciano Floridi
The Nature Of Gothic
John Ruskin
Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World
Iain McGilchrist
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Why Socialism?
Albert Einstein
The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
Brooke Gladstone
I'm Afraid of Men
Vivek Shraya
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
The Right to Be Lazy
Paul Lafargue
Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking
Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
How to Spot a Fascist
Umberto Eco
open for more recommendations under this comment!
Couple of suggestions from my shelf; Albert Camusâ Create Dangerously And Austin Kleonâs Steal Like an Artist đ
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Thank you! Iâll suggest more when I think of them đ
Okay I love this list title and concept!
thank you!!
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