Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
Published 2025
384 pages
The most popular activism & social movements books of 2025
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 2025.
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The Echo Machine
David Pakman
2025 · 2026 edition
208 pages
Authority
Andrea Long Chu
2025 · 2026 edition
288 pages
Another World Is Possible
Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Published 2025
432 pages
How to Defeat the Far Right
Nick Lowles
2025 · 2026 edition
320 pages
An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing
Wendy Elisheva Somerson
Published 2025
272 pages
Arm in Arm
Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Published 2025
296 pages
Game Changers
Charlene Smith
Published 2025
80 pages
Forget the Camel
Elizabeth MeLampy
Published 2025
272 pages
Black Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement;A Black History Book for Kids (Biographies for Kids) A Black History Book for Kids
Glenda Armand
Published 2025
120 pages
Angela Davis A Biography
Zest Books
Published 2025
112 pages
Poets Square A Memoir in Thirty Cats
Courtney Gustafson
Published 2025
256 pages
Six Conversations Were Scared to Have From the Guilty Feminist
Deborah Frances-White
Published 2025
352 pages
The long obedience
Alex Mouton
Published 2025
336 pages
Community-Engaged Scholarship
Published 2025
216 pages
Talking About Abolition A Police-Free World is Possible
Sonali Kolhatkar
Published 2025
176 pages
After Accountability A Critical Genealogy of a Concept
Pinko Collective
Published 2025
224 pages
Campus Student Activism, Politics, and Citizenship in the 21st Century
Ndwakhulu Tshishonga
Published 2025
453 pages
Bring Back Your People Ten Ways Regular Folks Can Put a Dent in White Christian Nationalism
Aaron Scott
Published 2025
216 pages
Women's Work Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone
Jennifer Moore
Published 2025
312 pages
Angie Thomas Hip-Hop Author and Voice of Change
Keenan Jones
Published 2025
48 pages
Story Tech Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy
Filippo Trevisan, Michael Vaughan, Ariadne Vromen
Published 2025
262 pages
Theory of Water Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Published 2025
224 pages
Calling In How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel
Loretta J. Ross
2025 · 2026 edition
288 pages