LCL Recommends: Social Justice Reads
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by:
Heather McGhee
4.62 avg rating — 20,498 ratings 4. 
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You
by:
Jeremy Heimans
3.82 avg rating — 2,095 ratings 
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
by:
Scott Ellsworth
4.19 avg rating — 1,307 ratings 8. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating — 49,879 ratings 
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Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows
by:
Rose Eveleth
4.01 avg rating — 244 ratings 11. 
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After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
by:
Ben Rhodes
4.20 avg rating — 4,825 ratings 
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Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street
by:
John Nichols
3.73 avg rating — 118 ratings 16. 
The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America
by:
David S. Meyer
3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings 17. 
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,967 ratings 
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Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
by:
Karen Blumenthal
4.33 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 23. 
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
by:
Loretta J. Ross
4.34 avg rating — 252 ratings 24. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,300 ratings 25. 
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0) 4.26 avg rating — 9,686 ratings
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Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World
by:
Traci Baxley
4.25 avg rating — 688 ratings 28. 
Taking a Knee, Taking a Stand: African American Athletes and the Fight for Social Justice
by:
Bob Schron
4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings 29. 
Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
by:
David Pilgrim
4.49 avg rating — 193 ratings 30. 
A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements
by:
Nicolas Lampert
3.99 avg rating — 104 ratings 31. 
Seeking Justice (21st Century Junior Library: Anti-Bias Learning: Social Justice in Action)
by:
Emily Chiarello
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 32. 
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality 4.38 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
by:
Laura Coates
4.20 avg rating — 1,742 ratings 34. 
Speaking Up for Ourselves and Others (21st Century Junior Library: Anti-Bias Learning: Social Justice in Action) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
by:
Jessica P. Pryde
4.27 avg rating — 449 ratings 
37. 
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy
by:
Karen Walrond
4.19 avg rating — 1,358 ratings 38. 
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation 4.08 avg rating — 8,670 ratings
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Can't Knock the Hustle: Inside the Season of Protest, Pandemic, and Progress with the Brooklyn Nets' Superstars of Tomorrow
by:
Matt Sullivan
3.50 avg rating — 306 ratings 40. 
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
by:
Emma Dabiri
4.40 avg rating — 3,806 ratings 41. 
Together We March: 25 Protest Movements That Marched into History
by:
Leah Henderson
4.47 avg rating — 83 ratings 42. 
Hothouse Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Importance of Carbon Neutrality 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
by:
Cynthia Levinson
4.16 avg rating — 659 ratings 
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What Are My Rights? (21st Century Skills Library: Racial Justice in America)
by:
Kelisa Wing
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 47. 
The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession 3.60 avg rating — 4,252 ratings
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She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next
by:
Bridget Quinn
4.40 avg rating — 169 ratings 
56. 
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating — 30,601 ratings 57. 
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The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Grace Lee Boggs
4.34 avg rating — 1,177 ratings 60. 
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
by:
Gar Alperovitz
3.91 avg rating — 304 ratings 61. 
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
by:
Saul D. Alinsky
3.74 avg rating — 8,464 ratings 62. 
Allies: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, And Trying Again
by:
Shakirah Bourne
4.32 avg rating — 407 ratings 63. 
Rise Up and Write It: With Real Mail, Posters, and More!
by:
Nandini Ahuja
4.63 avg rating — 75 ratings 64. 
Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist's Guide to Investigative Reporting
by:
Ruby Shamir
4.15 avg rating — 237 ratings 65. 
Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future
by:
Shaun King
4.24 avg rating — 878 ratings 66. 
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet 4.10 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement
by:
Shelly Oria
4.36 avg rating — 288 ratings 69. 
Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
by:
Shannon Watts
4.19 avg rating — 696 ratings 70. 
The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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1968: Today's Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, and Change
by:
Marc Aronson
3.73 avg rating — 99 ratings 72. 
Guerrilla Kindness & Other Acts of Creative Resistance: Making A Better World Through Craftivism 3.80 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
by:
Curtis Bunn
4.20 avg rating — 107 ratings 76. 
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
by:
Clara Bingham
4.33 avg rating — 412 ratings 77. 
A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States
by:
Ilan Stavans
3.19 avg rating — 144 ratings 78. 
Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China
by:
Rowena He
3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings 79. 
Craft Activism: People, Ideas, and Projects from the New Community of Handmade and How You Can Join In
by:
Joan Tapper
3.69 avg rating — 249 ratings 
81. 
The Year That Changed The World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by:
Michael R. Meyer
4.20 avg rating — 588 ratings 82. 
Stand and Be Counted: A Revealing History of Our Times Through the Eyes of the Artists Who Helped Change Our World
by:
David Crosby
3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings 
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
by:
Laura Kaplan
4.33 avg rating — 3,399 ratings 87. 
Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America
by:
Lauren Rankin
4.20 avg rating — 561 ratings 
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You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
by:
Meera Shah
4.44 avg rating — 5,563 ratings 90. 
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The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
by:
Jen Gunter
4.35 avg rating — 9,140 ratings 
93. 
Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
by:
Rickie Solinger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 94 ratings 
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Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
by:
Jennifer Nelson
4.11 avg rating — 105 ratings 98. 
The Pride Guide: A Guide to Sexual and Social Health for LGBTQ Youth
by:
Jo Langford
4.06 avg rating — 116 ratings 99. 
50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World: A Celebration of the Most Influential Drag Artists of All Time
by:
Dan Jones
3.78 avg rating — 93 ratings 100. 
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
by:
Laurie Greene
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings