How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith
Published 2021
336 pages
The most popular activism & social movements books of 2021
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 2021.
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Fuzz When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
I Take My Coffee Black
Tyler Merritt
2021 · 2023 edition
320 pages
Unbound
Tarana Burke
Published 2021
272 pages
You Got Anything Stronger? Stories
Gabrielle Union
2021 · 2022 edition
272 pages
Unfinished
Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Published 2021
256 pages
We Do this 'til We Free Us Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
Published 2021
206 pages
Manifesto On Never Giving Up
Bernardine Evaristo
2021 · 2022 edition
191 pages
Unprotected A Memoir
Billy Porter
Published 2021
278 pages
On Animals
Susan Orlean
Published 2021
241 pages
Man Enough Undefining My Masculinity
Justin Baldoni
Published 2021
344 pages
Coming Up for Air
Tom Daley
2021 · 2022 edition
240 pages
Consumed On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism and the Need for Collective Change
Aja Barber
Published 2021
288 pages
Against White Feminism
Rafia Zakaria
Published 2021
195 pages
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
Thich Nhat Hanh
Published 2021
309 pages
Becoming Abolitionists Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell
Published 2021
304 pages
Persist
Elizabeth Warren
Published 2021
320 pages
Unmasked Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
Andy Ngo
Published 2021
320 pages
How to Fight Racism Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice
Jemar Tisby
Published 2021
227 pages
The Black Panther Party
David F. Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson
Published 2021
192 pages
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
Emmanuel Acho
Published 2021
320 pages
INFLAMED
Rupa Marya, Raj Patel
2021 · 2022 edition
496 pages
Here, Right Matters
Alexander Vindman
Published 2021
256 pages
I Am a Girl from Africa
Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Published 2021
261 pages