a list of books to educate yourself on social and political topics
created by abookishweekend
last updated February, 2026
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
Sharon daVanport
Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global
Sian Norris
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation
Matthew Riemer
Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation
Qween Jean
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Larry Mitchell
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
There Are Trans People Here
H. Melt
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
Heinz Heger
No Visible Bruises: What We Donât Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rachel Louise Snyder
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Jon Krakauer
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Nevada
Imogen Binnie
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
Schuyler Bailar
Stonewall
Martin Duberman
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Huw Lemmey
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
Robert Bilott
The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future
Peter H. Gleick
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Hannah Ritchie
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
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