Quest: Reflections on Social Justice

Since ancient times, philosophers, leaders and societies have endlessly debated the meaning of what's right, fair and just. There is no simple answer, only everlasting debate. Regardless, moral acts do shape the world. And those committed by us, the people around us, and our predecessors have shaped the world to be the way it is today. Reading and reflecting about why things are the way they are may not bring social justice on its own, but it's a vital first step in that direction.

Add nonfiction books you've read that have advanced your understanding of social justice issues or inspired you to work toward positive change.

2 occurrences

Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice

by Jeremy Williams

SciencePoliticsNature

128 PagesJune 2021

Read by 2 people

2 occurrences

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

by Kate Moore

BiographyScienceHistory

477 PagesJune 2016

Read by 9 people

2 occurrences

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

352 PagesOctober 2014

100

Read by 5 people

2 occurrences

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Memoir & AutobiographyAdventureNature

February 2022

Read by 2 people

2 occurrences

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

by Mikki Kendall

EssaysPolitics

267 PagesFebruary 2020

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel

EconomicsPoliticsPhilosophy

320 PagesJanuary 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

by Abigail Dillen, Adrienne Maree Brown, Camille T. Dungy, More...

ScienceEssaysNature

432 PagesSeptember 2020

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Gang Leader for a Day

by Reg Rogers, Stephen J. Dubner, Sudhir Venkatesh

Memoir & AutobiographyEconomicsAnthropology & Sociology

302 PagesJanuary 2008

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

by Sa'ed Atshan

PhilosophyHistoryAnthropology & Sociology

304 PagesMay 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

by Adam Rutherford

ScienceHistoryPolitics

207 PagesFebruary 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America

by Alex Kotlowitz

EducationalHistoryAnthropology & Sociology

323 PagesFebruary 1991

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

by Julia Serano

Memoir & AutobiographyPolitics

May 2007

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Pérez

Anthropology & SociologyPoliticsEconomics

432 PagesMarch 2019

Read by 7 people

1 occurrence

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi

Anthropology & SociologyHistoryPolitics

582 PagesMarch 2016

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

How to Argue With a Meat Eater

by Ed Winters

PhilosophyFood & DrinkPolitics

313 PagesDecember 2023

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

All Boys Aren't Blue

by George M. Johnson

EssaysMemoir & Autobiography

320 PagesApril 2020

Read by 8 people

1 occurrence

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

by Layla F. Saad

EducationalPoliticsSelf-Help

January 2020

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Know My Name

by Chanel Miller

MysteryMemoir & AutobiographyTrue Crime

384 PagesSeptember 2019

Read by 7 people

1 occurrence

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

by Ruby Hamad

HistoryPoliticsAnthropology & Sociology

September 2019

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

by Lulu Miller

ScienceMemoir & AutobiographyHistory

April 2020

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

This is Vegan Propaganda (And Other Lies the Meat Industry tells you)

by Ed Winters

SciencePoliticsPhilosophy

8h 15m January 2022

100

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Asshole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too

by Martin Kihn

Nonfiction

256 Pages2008

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

HistoryPoliticsAnthropology & Sociology

422 PagesMarch 2016

100

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Michael Eric Dyson, Robin DiAngelo

HistoryPoliticsAnthropology & Sociology

168 PagesJune 2018

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Queer Intentions: A (personal) journey through LGBTQ+ culture

by Amelia Abraham

Memoir & AutobiographyPoliticsGender & Sexuality

9h 26m May 2019

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

by Joanne Limburg

EssaysMemoir & Autobiography

272 PagesJuly 2021

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

by Donna Zuckerberg

PhilosophyHistoryPolitics

288 PagesOctober 2018

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Communist Manifesto

by A.J.P. Taylor, Bruno Bongiovanni, Frederick Engles, More...

HistoryPhilosophyPolitics

February 1848

Read by 6 people

1 occurrence

On Palestine

by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

HistoryPoliticsPhilosophy

215 PagesMarch 2015

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths

by Jean Menzies

404 Inklings (2021) #21

MythologyHistorical Fiction

88 PagesJanuary 2024

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

by Ashley Shew

EssaysPoliticsAnthropology & Sociology

160 PagesSeptember 2023

100

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

by Mary-Frances Winters

EducationalHistoryPolitics

236 PagesSeptember 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Socialism, Utopian and Scientific

by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

EconomicsPhilosophyPolitics

130 PagesJanuary 1880

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

Memoir & AutobiographyHistoryPolitics

320 PagesAugust 2019

Read by 5 people

1 occurrence

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

by Mikki Kendall

Nonfiction

288 PagesFebruary 2020

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

by Travis Alabanza

Nonfiction

August 2022

100

Read by 2 people

1 occurrence

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde

EssaysPolitics

256 PagesJune 1984

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

HistoryPoliticsPhilosophy

128 Pages2003

Read by 4 people

1 occurrence

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

by Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil

Memoir & AutobiographyHistory

288 PagesApril 2018

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Worn Out: How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion's Sins

by Alyssa Hardy

256 PagesSeptember 2022

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Wage-Labour and Capital

by Florence Kelley, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

EconomicsPoliticsPhilosophy

52 Pages1891

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

by Amanda Leduc

Fairy TaleMemoir & AutobiographyAnthropology & Sociology

February 2020

Read by 3 people

1 occurrence

Animal Liberation

by Peter Singer

PhilosophyPolitics

368 PagesJanuary 1975

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth

by Dána-Ain Davis

Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice Series

MedicineEducationalAnthropology & Sociology

272 PagesJune 2019

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition

by Maia Kobabe

Memoir & Autobiography

240 PagesMay 2019

Read by 7 people

1 occurrence

Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid

by Jessica Alexander

Memoir & Autobiography

400 PagesOctober 2013

100

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

The Use and Abuse of History

by Friedrich Nietzsche

EssaysPhilosophyHistory

54 PagesApril 1874

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

EssaysPolitics

January 2012

Read by 9 people

1 occurrence

A Long Way Gone: The True Story Of A Child Soldier

by Dominic Hoffman, Ishmael Beah

Memoir & AutobiographyHistory

229 PagesFebruary 2007

Read by 1 person

1 occurrence

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction

80 PagesMarch 2017

Read by 1 person