The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2024 · 2025 edition
224 pages
The most popular activism & social movements books
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.
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The 57 Bus
Dashka Slater
Published 2017
320 pages
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
2019 · 2021 edition
224 pages
She Said
Jodi Kantor
Published 2019
310 pages
Desert Flower
Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller
1998 · 1999 edition
369 pages
How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith
Published 2021
336 pages
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
1971 · 2017 edition
160 pages
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi, 拉希德·哈立迪, Рашид Халиди
2019 · 2020 edition
336 pages
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Angela Y. Davis
2016 · 2022 edition
192 pages
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai
Published 2014
230 pages
My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem
2015 · 2017 edition
352 pages
The Will to Change
bell hooks
2003 · 2025 edition
208 pages
How Democracies Die
Daniel Ziblatt
2014 · 2018 edition
312 pages
Assata
Assata Shakur
1973 · 2014 edition
390 pages
Fuzz
Mary Roach
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
The Body Is Not an Apology
Sonya Renee Taylor
2018 · 2021 edition
159 pages
We Were Eight Years in Power
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published 2017
367 pages
Feminism Is for Everybody
bell hooks
2000 · 2014 edition
140 pages
Carry On, Warrior
Glennon Doyle Melton
2013 · 2020 edition
269 pages
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Emmanuel Acho
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2020 · 2021 edition
208 pages
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg
2019 · 2021 edition
96 pages
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
1997 · 2021 edition
464 pages
The Witches Are Coming
Lindy West
2019 · 2021 edition
272 pages