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Jason Reynolds
2020 · 2025 edition
336 pages
The most popular activism & social movements books of 2020
These books are about people who set out to change things. Civil rights, feminism, labor, environmental and many other movements are told through their histories, leaders and tactics. You will also find practical guides to organizing and campaigning. Read them for inspiration and for lessons in what works. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
Published 2020
209 pages
All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
World of wonders in praise of whale sharks, fireflies, and other astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Published 2020
165 pages
The Greatest Beer Run Ever The Crazy True Story Behind the Major Movie Starring Zac Efron and Russell Crow
J. T. Molloy, John (Chick) Donohue
2020 · 2022 edition
288 pages
One Life
Megan Rapinoe
2020 · 2021 edition
240 pages
Finding Freedom Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
Published 2020
368 pages
Beyond the Gender Binary
Alok Vaid-Menon
Published 2020
64 pages
This Book Is Anti-Racist
Tiffany Jewell
Published 2020
160 pages
Being Heumann An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Judith Heumann, Kristin Joiner
2020 · 2021 edition
240 pages
Funny Weather Art in an Emergency
Olivia Laing
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
You're the Only One I've Told
Meera Shah
2020 · 2026 edition
304 pages
Culture Warlords
Talia Lavin
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
The Black Friend On Being a Better White Person
Frederick Joseph
2020 · 2021 edition
272 pages
How the South Won the Civil War Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Heather Cox Richardson
2020 · 2022 edition
272 pages
All the Young Men A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary
Published 2020
355 pages
Last Book on the Left
Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, Tom Neely
Published 2020
301 pages
Recollections of My Non-Existence
Rebecca Solnit
Published 2020
244 pages
His Truth Is Marching On
Jon Meacham, John E. Lewis Ph. D.
Published 2020
640 pages
Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
2020 · 2021 edition
272 pages
Kent State Four Dead in Ohio
Derf Backderf
2020 · 2025 edition
288 pages
The People's Hospital
Ricardo Nuila
2020 · 2023 edition
370 pages
The Dead Are Arising The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne, Tamara Payne
2020 · 2021 edition
640 pages