Books on Palestine and Gaza

Bringing Forward Another Way
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 By Rashid Khalidi Cover Image
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine By Ilan Pappe Cover Image
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom By Norman Finkelstein Cover Image
Ten Myths About Israel By Ilan Pappe Cover Image

Let's get down to basics - humanity needs revolution, nothing less, and Bob Avakian's work is where you go to get into the revolution

THE NEW COMMUNISM: The science, the strategy, the leadership for an actual revolution, and a radically new society on the road to real emancipation By Bob Avakian Cover Image
Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (draft proposal) By Bob Avakian Cover Image
BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian By Bob Avakian Cover Image
From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist By Bob Avakian Cover Image
Science and Revolution: On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism and the Leadership of Bob Avakian By Ardea Skybreak Cover Image

HOW LONG? After 400 yrs, this system of oppression & murder must go!

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism By Edward E. Baptist Cover Image
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World By Dorothy Roberts Cover Image
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy By David Zucchino Cover Image

History and Culture of Africa and the Diaspora

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa By Walter Rodney, Angela Davis (Introduction by) Cover Image
In the Black Fantastic By Ekow Eshun Cover Image
Half of a Yellow Sun By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cover Image
The Old Drift: A Novel By Namwali Serpell Cover Image
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel By Imbolo Mbue Cover Image

Forced Motherhood = Female Enslavement

Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel By Margaret Atwood Cover Image
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel): A Novel By Margaret Atwood, Renee Nault (Illustrator) Cover Image
Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights By Karen Blumenthal Cover Image
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights By Katha Pollitt Cover Image

Not an immigrant problem, but an imperialism problem

Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World By Todd Miller Cover Image
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border By Francisco Cantú Cover Image
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation By Edwidge Danticat, Leslie Staub (Illustrator) Cover Image
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother By Sonia Nazario Cover Image
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal By Aviva Chomsky Cover Image

Oppression of Women and LGBTQ People

Break All The Chains
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty By Dorothy Roberts Cover Image
What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape By Sohaila Abdulali Cover Image
Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families By Pamela Paul Cover Image
Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present #3) By Jack Halberstam Cover Image

NEW (or Must-Read) NON-FICTION:
Path-breaking ... prize-winning ... may be targeted for fascist banning

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World By Dorothy Roberts Cover Image
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Art Spiegelman Cover Image
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays By Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Genevieve West Cover Image
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America By Carol Anderson Cover Image

Recommended on Science and Nature

The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters By Ardea Skybreak Cover Image
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming By David Wallace-Wells Cover Image
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us By Ed Yong Cover Image
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry By Neil deGrasse Tyson Cover Image
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind By Harriet A. Washington Cover Image

American Empire and American Crimes

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (American Crossroads #56) By Stuart Schrader Cover Image
Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug By Augustine Sedgewick Cover Image
Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World By Todd Miller Cover Image
The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II (Dispatch Books) By John W. Dower Cover Image
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 By Rashid Khalidi Cover Image

NEW (and great) NOVELS to stir the mind & imagination

Mercy Street: A Novel By Jennifer Haigh Cover Image
The Prophets By Robert Jones, Jr. Cover Image
Harlem Shuffle: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
Moon and the Mars: A Novel By Kia Corthron Cover Image
Seasons in Hippoland (The Africa List) By Wanjiku Wa Ngugi Cover Image

Biography and memoir

Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo By Mansoor Adayfi Cover Image
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South By Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, Bryan Stevenson (Foreword by) Cover Image
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X By Les Payne, Tamara Payne Cover Image
Basquiat By Marc Mayer (Editor) Cover Image
Big Black: Stand at Attica By Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, Ameziane (Illustrator) Cover Image

Fiction from around the world to expand your world

The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) By Brit Bennett Cover Image
Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel By Kawai Strong Washburn Cover Image
A Burning: A novel By Megha Majumdar Cover Image
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel By Oyinkan Braithwaite Cover Image
The Old Drift: A Novel By Namwali Serpell Cover Image

ART BOOKS: Beauty, imagination & provocation

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South By Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, Bryan Stevenson (Foreword by) Cover Image
Basquiat: Boom for Real By Eleanor Nairne, Dieter Buchhart, Lotte Johnson (Contributions by) Cover Image
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art By Antwaun Sargent (Editor), Antwaun Sargent (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Thomas Lax (Text by (Art/Photo Books)) Cover Image
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration By Nicole R. Fleetwood Cover Image
We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World By Jasmin Hernandez, Swizz Beatz (Foreword by), Sunny Leerasanthanah (By (photographer)), Jasmine Durhal (By (photographer)) Cover Image

KIDS' BOOKS: New & old faves for children to understand & change the world too

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water By Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson, Nikkolas Smith (Illustrator) Cover Image
Antiracist Baby Board Book By Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator) Cover Image
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone By Traci N. Todd, Christian Robinson (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story By Maria Popova, Ping Zhu (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Life of / La Vida de Basquiat By Patty Rodriguez, Ariana Stein, Citlali Reyes (Illustrator) Cover Image

NEW (or Don't-Miss) COOKBOOKS:
Recipes, stories & poetry about the human experience of food

Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook] By Bryant Terry (Editor) Cover Image
The Mexican Home Kitchen: Traditional Home-Style Recipes That Capture the Flavors and Memories of Mexico By Mely Martínez Cover Image
Appetites: A Cookbook By Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever Cover Image
Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine By Kelley Fanto Deetz Cover Image
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen By Sean Sherman, Beth Dooley (Contributions by) Cover Image

The roots of Amerikkkan fascism and what we must do now

The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism By Katherine Stewart Cover Image
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland By Jonathan M. Metzl Cover Image
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy By David Zucchino Cover Image
The Coming Civil War and Repolarization for Revolution in the Present Era
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them By Jason Stanley Cover Image

NO to U.S. War on Iran! Free All Political Prisoners In Iran! --Necessary readings

Bringing Forward Another Way
Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 By Nasser Mohajer, Angela Davis (Foreword by) Cover Image
The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2 (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh (Translated by) Cover Image
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror By Stephen Kinzer Cover Image
The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason By Ali A. Rizvi Cover Image

Fiction and the raw truth of racist America

The Prophets By Robert Jones, Jr. Cover Image
The Underground Railroad: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
Kindred By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
The Nickel Boys: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image

Art and music

Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music By Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards Cover Image
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America By The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts, Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor) Cover Image
Roy DeCarava: the sound i saw By Roy DeCarava (By (artist)), Sherry Turner DeCarava (Text by), Radiclani Clytus (Text by) Cover Image
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas By Emory Douglas, Sam Durant (Editor), Danny Glover (Foreword by), Bobby Seale (Preface by), Kathleen Cleaver (Contributions by) Cover Image

Poetry

Citizen: An American Lyric By Claudia Rankine Cover Image
Floaters: Poems By Martín Espada Cover Image
Honey in Harlem By David Ellis Cover Image
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology By Kevin Young (Editor) Cover Image
Felon: Poems By Reginald Dwayne Betts Cover Image

Libros en Español

Lo BAsico, de los discursos y escritos de Bob Avakian (Spanish Edition) By Bob Avakian Cover Image
Lola: Edición en español de ISLANDBORN By Junot Díaz, Leo Espinosa (Illustrator) Cover Image
Largo pétalo de mar By Isabel Allende Cover Image
The Cat in the Hat/El Gato Ensombrerado (The Cat in the Hat Spanish Edition): Bilingual Edition (Classic Seuss) By Dr. Seuss Cover Image
Guerra Contra Todos los Puertorriqueños: Revolución y Terror en la Colonia Americana By Nelson A. Denis Cover Image