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Abolition Books
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,373 ratings — published 2003
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,001 ratings — published 2021
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 116 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,369 ratings — published 2017
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,271 ratings — published 2021
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,464 ratings — published 2022
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,253 ratings — published 2007
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,980 ratings — published 2015
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,160 ratings — published 2020
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,130 ratings — published 2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,690 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,673 ratings — published 2020
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,699 ratings — published 2005
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 481 ratings — published
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 291 ratings — published
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 333,293 ratings — published 2014
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,422 ratings — published 2018
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.48 — 220 ratings — published 2020
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 2024
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,594 ratings — published 1987
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,035 ratings — published 2023
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,276 ratings — published 2016
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,231 ratings — published 2020
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,691 ratings — published 1972
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,127 ratings — published 1975
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 27 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,974 ratings — published 2020
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.42 — 312 ratings — published 2012
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.39 — 150 ratings — published 2008
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.53 — 679 ratings — published
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.58 — 634 ratings — published 2017
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.14 — 909 ratings — published 2022
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.13 — 999 ratings — published 2021
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,058 ratings — published 2019
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.52 — 6,429 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,108 ratings — published 2014
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,918 ratings — published 1970
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.79 — 155 ratings — published
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.24 — 831 ratings — published 2011
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.30 — 162 ratings — published 2014
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,458 ratings — published 2019
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 607 ratings — published 2018
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.16 — 279 ratings — published 2016
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,714 ratings — published 2017
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by (shelved 18 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.40 — 175 ratings — published 2023
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,393 ratings — published 2006
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as abolition)
avg rating 3.92 — 243,283 ratings — published 1852
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.20 — 365 ratings — published 2021
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,963 ratings — published 2016
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,546 ratings — published 1845
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.43 — 75 ratings — published 2014
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as abolition)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,334 ratings — published 1971
“If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.”
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