When Crack Was King
Donovan X. Ramsey
Published 2023
448 pages
The most popular activism & social movements books of 2023
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 2023.
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Accountable The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
Dashka Slater
Published 2023
496 pages
Endgame
Omid Scobie
Published 2023
368 pages
The Half of It A Memoir
Anon9780063237698
Published 2023
176 pages
King
Jonathan Eig, Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long
Published 2023
688 pages
Burn It Down
Maureen Ryan
Published 2023
348 pages
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
Tahir Hamut Izgil
Published 2023
272 pages
I Swear Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan
Katie Porter
Published 2023
288 pages
What an Owl Knows The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman
Published 2023
352 pages
The Country of the Blind A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland
Published 2023
368 pages
Living Resistance An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
Kaitlin B. Curtice
2023 · 2025 edition
208 pages
Some People Need Killing A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Patricia Evangelista
Published 2023
448 pages
Decolonizing Therapy Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
Jennifer Mullan
Published 2023
458 pages
How Far to the Promised Land One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
Esau McCaulley
Published 2023
240 pages
Adult Drama And Other Essays
Natalie Beach
Published 2023
272 pages
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant A Memoir
Curtis Chin
2023 · 2024 edition
304 pages
Don't Think, Dear On Loving & Leaving Ballet
Alice Robb
Published 2023
293 pages
Of Time and Turtles Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Sy Montgomery, Matt Patterson
2023 · 2024 edition
304 pages
But what Can I Do? Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and how You Can Help Fix it
Alastair Campbell
Published 2023
319 pages
Boyslut A Memoir and Manifesto
Zachary Zane
2023 · 2024 edition
240 pages
The Identity Trap A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Yascha Mounk
2023 · 2024 edition
401 pages
A Renaissance of Our Own A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
Rachel E. Cargle
Published 2023
256 pages
Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life
Niall Harbison
2023 · 2024 edition
320 pages
Social Justice Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Published 2023
201 pages