Nonfiction books that I want to read!
created by MollyElizabeth
last updated April, 2026
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
David Sedaris
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
Dean Spade
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Thomas Halliday
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
Donovan X. Ramsey
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Eve L. Ewing
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Ruby Hamad
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Siddharth Kara
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott
The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
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