An Ever Growing List of Books to Inform and Inspire
Okay, folks. I keep adding to the book list and what I’m not doing is linking to the books because Jeff Bezos doesn’t need another dime from any of us. Instead, here is a link to a list of Black owned bookstores around the country. Another resource for supporting independent booksellers is bookshop.org.
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps To Changing Yourself And The World by Patrisse Cullors
Do The Work! An Antiracist Activity Book by W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next) by Dean Spade
The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Joyous Resilience by Anjuli Sherin
Against Civility by Alex Zamalin
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs
Shrill by Lindy West
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehesi Coates
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua
How To Start A Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics by Lauren Duca
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda V. Magee
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
Trauma Stewardship by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Utopia for Realists by Ruter Bregman
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
Feminism for the 99% by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, & Nancy Fraser
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Basically anything and everything by bell hooks
Basically anything and everything by James Baldwin
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran