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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,690 ratings — published 2012
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,531 ratings — published 2017
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,222 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,853 ratings — published 2010
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 309,164 ratings — published 2025
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,893 ratings — published 2020
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,446 ratings — published 1981
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,723 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,954 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,460 ratings — published 1965
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,413 ratings — published 2022
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,170 ratings — published 2016
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,365 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,560 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,421 ratings — published 2017
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 82,676 ratings — published 2025
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,878 ratings — published 1845
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,868 ratings — published 2015
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 192,271 ratings — published 2013
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,443 ratings — published 1963
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,812 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 275,502 ratings — published 1980
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,537 ratings — published 2020
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,638 ratings — published 1997
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,249 ratings — published 2003
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,445 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,744 ratings — published 2014
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,420 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,286 ratings — published 2012
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 26,114 ratings — published 2018
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,025 ratings — published 1979
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.12 — 552,593 ratings — published 2022
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,579,281 ratings — published 1985
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,680 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 184,291 ratings — published 2019
Revenge of the Tipping Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.02 — 67,379 ratings — published 2024
Finding My Way: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 21,081 ratings — published 2025
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.12 — 160,567 ratings — published 2025
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,805,444 ratings — published 1949
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 17,231 ratings — published 2024
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 24,598 ratings — published 1986
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.59 — 28,556 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 26,103 ratings — published 2019
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,178 ratings — published 2023
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,846 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.10 — 107,603 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,406 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,073 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,781 ratings — published 2024
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,536 ratings — published 2017
“Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.”
― Healology
― Healology
“On matters of ethnic cleansing you have only one ethnicity: humanity.”
― Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
― Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer
