A ⭐ means I highly recommend it.

2024

• 1.
  To Be Taught, If Fortunate
  Becky Chambers
• ⭐
  2.
  Fundamentals of Community Organizing
  George Goehl
• 3.
  Raising Free People
  Akilah S. Richards
• 4.
  A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
  Becky Chambers
• 5.
  Loving Corrections
  adrienne maree brown
• 6.
  Home is Where We Start
  Susanna Crossman
• 7.
  Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
  Jane McAlevey
• 8.
  Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age
  Edited by Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, and Neil Davidson
• 9.
  How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• 10.
  The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
  Becky Chambers
• 11.
  Record of a Spaceborn Few
  Becky Chambers
• 12.
  Emergent Strategy
  adrienne maree brown
• 13.
  A Closed and Common Orbit
  Becky Chambers
• 14.
  How to Win a Grand Prix
  Bernie Collins
• 15.
  The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
  Cory Doctorow
• ⭐
  16.
  The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet
  Becky Chambers
• 17.
  Adults in the Room
  Yanis Varoufakis
• ⭐
  18.
  On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
  Daisy Pitkin
• ⭐
  19.
  Against Borders: The Case for Abolition
  Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha
• 20.
  Conflict Is Not Abuse
  Sarah Schulman
• 21.
  The Dispossessed
  Ursula Le Guin
• ⭐
  22.
  Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
  Carla Bergman; Nick Montgomery
• 23.
  Parable of the Talents
  Octavia E. Butler
• 24.
  State Capitalism and World Revolution
  C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs
• ⭐
  25.
  Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
  Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean
• 26.
  Memoirs of a Revolutionist
  Peter Kropotkin

2023

• 1.
  Wool
  Hugh Howey
• 2.
  Re:Imagining Change
  Patrick Reinsborough & Doyle Canning
• 3.
  Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
  Working Class History
• 4.
  Maroons
  adrienne maree brown
• 5.
  Orwell's Roses
  Rebecca Solnit
• 6.
  No Time to Spare
  Ursula K. Le Guin
• 7.
  there are more things
  Yara Rodrigues Fowler
• 8.
  No Future Without Forgiveness
  Desmond Tutu
• 9.
  We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions
  Thomas Sankara
• 10.
  All About Love: New Visions
  bell hooks
• ⭐
  11.
  Feminist City
  Leslie Kern
• 12.
  A Field Guide To Getting Lost
  Rebecca Solnit
• ⭐
  13.
  Let This Radicalize You
  Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
• 14.
  Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
  adrienne maree brown (editor); Walidah Imarisha (editor)
• 15.
  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  Robert Tressell
• 16.
  Bitter Root, Vol. 3: Legacy TP
  David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene, Sofie Dodgson
• 17.
  Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
  Sophie Lewis
• ⭐
  18.
  SNCC: The New Abolitionists
  Howard Zinn
• 19.
  Doughnut Economics
  Kate Raworth
• 20.
  Convenience Store Woman
  Sayaka Murata
• 21.
  The Housing Monster
  Prole.info
• 22.
  The Panthers Can't Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter
  Cedric G. Johnson
• 23.
  The Motorcycle Diaries
  Ernesto Che Guevara
• ⭐
  24.
  Elite Capture
  Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
• 25.
  The Word for World is Forest
  Ursula K. Le Guin
• 26.
  Bitter Root, Vol. 2: Rage & Redemption
  David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene, Sofie Dodgson
• 27.
  Make or Break
  Dave Macleod
• ⭐
  28.
  Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work
  Ian Allinson
• 29.
  One Life
  Megan Rapinoe and Emma Brockes
• ⭐
  30.
  Parable of the Sower
  Octavia E. Butler
• ⭐
  31.
  Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy
  Anitra Nelson
• 32.
  The City & The City
  China Miéville
• 33.
  Democracy is Power
  Mike Parker & Martha Gruelle
• 34.
  Never Let Me Go
  Kazuo Ishiguro
• 35.
  Grievers
  adrienne maree brown
• 36.
  Managing with Labor's Values
  Ken Margolies
• 37.
  The Left Hand of Darkness
  Ursula K. Le Guin
• 38.
  How We Live Is How We Die
  Pema Chodron
• 39.
  A Psalm for the Wild-Built
  Becky Chambers
• 40.
  The Groundings with My Brothers
  Walter Rodney

2022

• 1.
  Rosa Luxemburg
  Dana Mills
• 2.
  Empowered Boundaries
  Cristien Storm
• 3.
  Why Marx Was Right
  Terry Eagleton
• ⭐
  4.
  We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
  Mariame Kaba
• 5.
  Abolish Work: "Abolish Restaurants" Plus "Work, Community, Politics, War"
  Prole.info
• 6.
  The Short Guide to Community Development
  Alison Gilchrist and Marilyn Taylor
• 7.
  Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents
  Great Britain: Home Office
• 8.
  Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication
  Meenadchi
• 9.
  Queer Icons and Their Cats
  Alison Nastasi ; PJ Nastasi
• 10.
  The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
  Mariana Enriquez, Translated by Megan McDowell
• 11.
  Pedagogy of the Oppressed
  Paulo Freire
• ⭐
  12.
  Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
  adrienne maree brown
• 13.
  How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
  Randall Munroe
• ⭐
  14.
  Project Hail Mary
  Andy Weir
• 15.
  There And Back: Photographs From The Edge
  Jimmy Chin
• ⭐
  16.
  Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
  Julia Shaw
• 17.
  Another Now
  Yanis Varoufakis
• 18.
  Prisms of the People
  Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, Michelle Oyakawa
• 19.
  How to Make Tea
  Brian R. Keating & Kim Long
• 20.
  Anarchist Communism
  Peter Kropotkin
• 21.
  Black Ghost of Empire
  Kris Manjapra
• 22.
  A Collective Bargain
  Jane McAlevey
• ⭐
  23.
  We Will Not Cancel Us
  adrienne maree brown
• 24.
  The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
  Mona Eltahawy
• 25.
  Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
  Temi Oh
• 26.
  Red Star Over the Third World
  Vijay Prashad
• 27.
  Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
  Sharon Smith
• 28.
  Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
  Colin Grant
• ⭐
  29.
  Nonviolent Communication
  Marshall B. Rosenberg
• 30.
  Unions Renewed: Building Power in an Age of Finance
  Alice Martin, Annie Quick
• ⭐
  31.
  Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism
  Yanis Varoufakis
• 32.
  Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
  Ijeoma Oluo
• 33.
  Amílcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary
  Peter Karibe Mendy
• 34.
  Shrill
  Lindy West

2021

• 1.
  Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert
  Hamja Ahsan
• 2.
  Tower
  Bae Myung-hoon
• 3.
  The Prophet
  Kahlil Gibran
• 4.
  Animal Farm
  George Orwell
• 5.
  Secrets of a Successful Organizer
  Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner, Jane Slaughter
• ⭐
  6.
  Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling
  Rebecca Cassidy
• 7.
  Work Won't Love You Back
  Sarah Jaffe
• 8.
  On Anarchism
  Noam Chomsky
• 9.
  Lean Out
  Dawn Foster
• 10.
  The Water Dancer
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• ⭐
  11.
  Red State Revolt
  Eric Blanc
• ⭐
  12.
  Abolish Silicon Valley
  Wendy Liu
• 13.
  The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
  Audre Lorde
• 14.
  Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
  Mark Fisher
• ⭐
  15.
  Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
  Ejeris Dixon (Editor); Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor)
• 16.
  The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
  David R. Roediger
• 17.
  Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business
  David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene
• 18.
  Eleanor Marx: A Biography
  Yvonne Kapp
• 19.
  The Urban Vegetable Patch
  Grace Paul

2020

• 1.
  Lead from the Outside
  Stacey Abrams
• 2.
  Assata: An Autobiography
  Assata Shakur
• 3.
  Black and British: A short, essential history
  David Olusoga
• ⭐
  4.
  Twitter and Tear Gas
  Zeynep Tufekci
• 5.
  Between the World and Me
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• 6.
  Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
  Rutger Bregman
• 7.
  Diversity Inc.
  Pamela Newkirk
• ⭐
  8.
  No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Guilded Age
  Jane F. McAlevey
• 9.
  On the Other Side of Freedom
  DeRay Mckesson
• 10.
  Trauma Stewardship
  Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
• 11.
  The Witches Are Coming
  Lindy West

2019

• 1.
  We Were Eight Years in Power
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• 2.
  Make Trouble: Stand Up, Speak Out, and Find the Courage to Lead
  Cecile Richards, Lauren Peterson
• 3.
  Demystifying Public Speaking
  Lara Hogan
• 4.
  What Would Marx Do?
  Gareth Southwell
• ⭐
  5.
  Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
  Jamie Woodcock
• 6.
  What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know
  Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey
• 7.
  The Stone Sky
  N. K. Jemisin
• ⭐
  8.
  Resilient Management
  Lara Hogan
• 9.
  Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
  Charlene Carruthers
• 10.
  Therapy
  Stephen Grosz
• 11.
  How to Relax
  Thich Nhat Hanh
• 12.
  Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
  Chip Heath, Dan Heath
• 13.
  This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
  Annie Grace

2018

• ⭐
  1.
  The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
  Catherine Gray
• 2.
  Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
  Michael Bennett
• 3.
  The Obelisk Gate
  N. K. Jemisin
• 4.
  The Fifth Season
  N. K. Jemisin
• 5.
  On Emotional Intelligence
  Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis
• 6.
  Game Devs & Others: Tales from the Margins
  Tanya DePass
• 7.
  We Should All Be Feminists
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• ⭐
  8.
  Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
  Roxane Gay
• ⭐
  9.
  The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
  bell hooks
• 10.
  When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
  Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
• 11.
  Saga Volume 8
  Brian K. Vaughan
• 12.
  Ms. Marvel Vol. 8
  G. Willow Wilson
• ⭐
  13.
  So You Want to Talk About Race
  Ijeoma Olou
• 14.
  Artemis
  Andy Weir
• 15.
  Why Does He Do That?
  Lundy Bancroft

2017

• 1.
  Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
  Cathy O'Neil
• 2.
  Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
  Ellen Pao
• ⭐
  3.
  Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
  Zoë Quinn
• 4.
  I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
  Malala Yousafzai
• 5.
  Ms. Marvel Volume 5: Super Famous
  G. Willow Wilson
• 6.
  Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
  Heath Fogg Davis
• 7.
  The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
  Tommy Caldwell
• 8.
  The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
  Camille Fournier
• 9.
  Are Prisons Obsolete?
  Angela Davis
• 10.
  Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  Helene Cooper
• 11.
  Saga Volume 7
  Brian K. Vaughan
• 12.
  Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
  Liz Wiseman
• 13.
  Becoming a Citizen Activist: Stories, Strategies, and Advice for Changing Our World
  Nick Licata
• 14.
  Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
  Damian Duffy
• 15.
  Language of War, Language of Peace: Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice
  Raja Shehadeh
• 16.
  Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• 17.
  March: Book Three
  Andrew Aydin, John Lewis
• 18.
  March: Book Two
  Andrew Aydin, John Lewis
• 19.
  The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
  Robert Sutton

2016

• 1.
  Saga Volume 6
  Brian K. Vaughan
• 2.
  Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
  Alison Bechdel
• 3.
  Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
  Cory Doctorow
• 4.
  The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
  Aaron Swartz
• 5.
  The Blind Owl
  Sadegh Hedayat
• 6.
  Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
  Sharon Zukin
• ⭐
  7.
  The Fire Next Time
  James Baldwin
• 8.
  Spelunky
  Derek Yu
• 9.
  Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

2015

• 1.
  Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
  Amy Ellis Nutt
• 2.
  Alone on the Wall
  Alex Honnold, David Roberts
• 3.
  Ms. Marvel Volume 3: Crushed
  G. Willow Wilson
• 4.
  iZombie: Dead to the World
  Chris Roberson
• 5.
  Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
  Michael Lewis
• 6.
  A Brief History of Time
  Stephen Hawking
• 7.
  Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
  Anjan Sundaram
• 8.
  Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
  Richard H. Graham
• 9.
  Footnotes in Gaza
  Joe Sacco
• 10.
  My Beloved World
  Sonia Sotomayor
• 11.
  Lumberjanes Volume 1
  Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen, Shannon Watters
• 12.
  Top 10
  Alan Moore, Gene Ha, Zander Cannon
• 13.
  The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices
  Thich Nhat Hanh
• 14.
  What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
  Randall Munroe
• 15.
  Mistborn: The Hero of Ages
  Brandon Sanderson
• 16.
  Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
  Cordelia Fine
• 17.
  The Road
  Cormac McCarthy
• ⭐
  18.
  The Martian
  Andy Weir
• 19.
  East of West Volume 1: The Promise
  Jonathan Kichman, Nick Dragotta

2014

• 1.
  Saga Volume 4
  Brian K. Vaughan
• 2.
  Sex Criminals Volume 1 TP
  Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
• 3.
  Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will
  Jamie Kilstein, Allison Kilkenny
• 4.
  Lucifer Volume 2: Children and Monsters
  Mike Carey
• 5.
  Lucifer Volume 1: Devil in the Gateway
  Mike Carey
• 6.
  Mistborn: The Well of Ascension
  Brandon Sanderson
• 7.
  Mistborn: The Final Empire
  Brandon Sanderson
• 8.
  Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up
  Norman Fischer
• 9.
  Fahrenheit 451
  Ray Bradbury
• 10.
  Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
  Radley Balko
• 11.
  Ready Player One
  Ernest Cline
• ⭐
  12.
  On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
  William Zinsser
• 13.
  Saga Volume 3
  Brian K. Vaughan
• 14.
  Saga Volume 2
  Brian K. Vaughan
• 15.
  Asterios Polyp
  David Mazzucchelli
• 16.
  Pyongyang
  Guy Delisle
• 17.
  Locke & Key Volume 1
  Joe Hill
• 18.
  Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
  Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
• 19.
  Saga Volume 1
  Brian K. Vaughan
• 20.
  The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
  Noam Wasserman

2013

• 1.
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Robert A. Heinlein
• 2.
  The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
  Joseph Stiglitz
• 3.
  Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
  H.H. Dalai Lama
• 4.
  The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
  Jon Ronson
• 5.
  SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future
  Richard Martin
• 6.
  It's Not Luck
  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• 7.
  Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
  Rachel Maddow
• 8.
  The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
  Peter Singer
• 9.
  Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
  Christopher Steiner
• 10.
  How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
  H.H. Dalai Lama
• 11.
  Ethics for the New Millennium
  H.H. Dalai Lama
• 12.
  The Wheel of Time: A Memory of Light
  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
• 13.
  The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
  Nate Silver

2012

• 1.
  The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• 2.
  Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
  Marq de Villiers
• 3.
  Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
  Manning Marable
• 4.
  The Zen of Mountains and Climbing: Wit, Wisdom, and Inspiration
  Katharine Wroth
• 5.
  A Long Way Gone
  Ishmael Beah
• 6.
  Einstein's Dreams
  Alan Lightman

2011

• 1.
  Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
  Lawrence Lessig
• 2.
  Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
  Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 3.
  A Dance with Dragons
  George R. R. Martin
• 4.
  The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
  Carl Sagan
• 5.
  Blindness
  Jose Saramago
• 6.
  The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
  Dan Savage
• 7.
  Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn
  Tera Patrick, Carrie Borzillo
• 8.
  Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
  Dan Millman
• 9.
  Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
• 10.
  The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
  Dan Savage
• 11.
  The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
  Jack Kornfield