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1.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
by:
Charles Person
4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Making A Difference: Reflecting on the Past, Thinking of the Future
by:
James L. Hecht
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
by:
Joy Adamson
4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings
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The Spotted Sphinx
by:
Joy Adamson
4.35 avg rating — 325 ratings
5.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by:
Audre Lorde
4.40 avg rating — 23,084 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
by:
John Lewis
4.35 avg rating — 56,871 ratings
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The Snow Leopard
by:
Peter Matthiessen
4.07 avg rating — 19,812 ratings
8.
Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography
by:
Julian Assange
3.78 avg rating — 963 ratings
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From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
by:
David T. Dellinger
4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
by:
Tammie Matson
3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Won by Love: Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe V. Wade, Speaks Out for the Unborn As She Shares Her New Conviction for Life
by:
Norma McCorvey
4.28 avg rating — 323 ratings
12.
Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
by:
Kelly J. Cogswell
3.43 avg rating — 167 ratings
12.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by:
Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,183 ratings
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Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
by:
Tammie Matson
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
14.
From Bihar to Tihar: My Political Journey
by:
Kanhaiya Kumar
4.03 avg rating — 434 ratings
16.
Serpico
by:
Peter Maas
4.01 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
16.
Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell
by:
Adrienne E. Gavin
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
16.
March: Book Two (March, #2)
by:
John Lewis
4.49 avg rating — 28,882 ratings
16.
Life at All Costs: An Anthology of Voices from 21st Century Black Prolife Leaders
by:
Alveda C. King
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
20.
We Bought a Zoo
by:
Benjamin Mee
3.54 avg rating — 8,012 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
by:
John Lewis
4.64 avg rating — 21,409 ratings
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How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day
by:
Kath Kelly
3.74 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement
by:
William J. Barber II
4.30 avg rating — 778 ratings
24.
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
by:
Janisse Ray
4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
25.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.65 avg rating — 194,441 ratings
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by:
Gerald Durrell
4.17 avg rating — 61,495 ratings
27.
Search Dogs and Me: One Man and his Life-Saving Dogs
by:
Neil Powell
4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
28.
Birdbrain
by:
Virginia Arthur
4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings
28.
Just Another Number
by:
Maggie Georgiana Young
3.69 avg rating — 87 ratings
28.
Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation
by:
Sonia Johnson
4.08 avg rating — 59 ratings
28.
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
by:
Jane Goodall
4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
28.
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement
by:
Urmila Pawar
4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
28.
Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
by:
Andrea D. Lyon
4.06 avg rating — 720 ratings
28.
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
by:
Joshua Wong
4.10 avg rating — 1,060 ratings
28.
The Rhino Crash
by:
Nick Newman
4.19 avg rating — 153 ratings
28.
Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir
by:
Shenandoah Chefalo
4.07 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
28.
Widening Circles: A Memoir
by:
Joanna Macy
4.20 avg rating — 226 ratings
28.
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California
by:
Daniel J. O'Connell
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
39.
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
by:
Mark Rudd
3.73 avg rating — 383 ratings
39.
The Irishman Who Ran for England
by:
Master Jim Hogan
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
39.
My Life with the Chimpanzees
by:
Jane Goodall
4.14 avg rating — 3,228 ratings
39.
The Elephant Whisperer
by:
Lawrence Anthony
4.50 avg rating — 31,514 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
by:
Charles Person
4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
44.
Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson
by:
S. Brian Willson
4.39 avg rating — 59 ratings
44.
Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows
by:
Sydney Biddle Barrows
3.58 avg rating — 440 ratings
44.
Africa In My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
by:
Jane Goodall
4.06 avg rating — 814 ratings
44.
In Pursuit of Ambedkar, A Memoir
by:
Bhagwan Das
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
44.
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by:
Richard Preston
4.12 avg rating — 8,852 ratings
44.
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
by:
Myles Horton
4.33 avg rating — 994 ratings
44.
Racketeer for Life: Fighting the Culture of Death From the Sidewalk to the Supreme Court
by:
Joseph M. Scheidler
4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
51.
The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
by:
Margaret Sanger
3.85 avg rating — 183 ratings
51.
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
by:
Spike Milligan
4.04 avg rating — 8,723 ratings
51.
Assata: An Autobiography
by:
Assata Shakur
4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
51.
Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
by:
Rachel E. Harding
4.70 avg rating — 74 ratings
51.
In The Tigers Shadow: The Autobiography of an Ambedkarite
by:
Namdeo Nimgade
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
51.
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
by:
Lawrence Anthony
4.32 avg rating — 4,514 ratings
57.
One Red Paperclip: The Story of How One Man Changed His Life One Swap at a Time
by:
Kyle Macdonald
3.52 avg rating — 1,297 ratings
57.
Bomber grounded, runway closed: Prison letters and court notes of a Gulf War resister
by:
Ciaron O'Reilly
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
57.
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
by:
Andrea Dworkin
4.15 avg rating — 792 ratings
57.
Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History
by:
J.V. Pawar
4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings
57.
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
by:
Conor Grennan
4.26 avg rating — 23,240 ratings
62.
Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
by:
Karla Jay
3.94 avg rating — 276 ratings
62.
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
by:
John Lewis
4.60 avg rating — 3,777 ratings
62.
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
by:
Anne Moody
4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
62.
From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
by:
Sudha Bharadwaj
4.58 avg rating — 78 ratings
66.
The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir
by:
Candace Gingrich
3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
67.
A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet
by:
Judy Grahn
4.33 avg rating — 51 ratings
68.
The Sheriff: A Detective's Story
by:
Gerry O'Carroll
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
68.
Walk in My Shoes: Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead
by:
Andrew Young
3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
70.
Too Long in the Bush
by:
Len Beadell
4.17 avg rating — 72 ratings
70.
Fugitive Days
by:
William Ayers
3.68 avg rating — 650 ratings
70.
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
by:
Lorraine Hansberry
4.42 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
73.
One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS
by:
Sarah. Ford
4.22 avg rating — 50 ratings
73.
Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
by:
Gerda Lerner
4.32 avg rating — 69 ratings
73.
A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young
by:
Andrew Young
4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
73.
Racism Schmacism: How Liberals Use The "R" Word To Push The Obama Agenda
by:
James Edwards
3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
77.
The Cat and the Curmudgeon (Compleat Cat #2)
by:
Cleveland Amory
3.69 avg rating — 822 ratings
77.
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by:
Janisse Ray
4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
77.
Takes an Uprising: A Memoir in Lesbian Parables
by:
Patricia Lee Jackson
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
77.
God's Smuggler
by:
Brother Andrew
4.38 avg rating — 45,863 ratings
81.
If Not Now, When?: Living the Baby Boomer Adventure
by:
Esther Rantzen
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
81.
Infidel
by:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.20 avg rating — 91,944 ratings
81.
Jerzy Popieluszko: Victim of Communism
by:
Grazyna Sikorski
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
84.
A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South
by:
Hamilton Jordan
4.06 avg rating — 51 ratings
84.
Radical: My Journey Out Of Islamist Extremism
by:
Maajid Nawaz
4.03 avg rating — 3,077 ratings
84.
The Priest and the Policeman: The Courageous Life and Cruel Murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko
by:
John Moody
4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
87.
Your Dinner's Poured Out
by:
Paddy Crosbie
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
87.
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
by:
Robert Elliott Burns
3.96 avg rating — 185 ratings
87.
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
by:
Manal Al-Sharif
4.33 avg rating — 8,127 ratings
87.
Tortured for Christ
by:
Richard Wurmbrand
4.36 avg rating — 17,092 ratings
91.
Dublin Made Me
by:
C.S. Andrews
4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
91.
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
by:
Cornelia Walker Bailey
4.32 avg rating — 358 ratings
91.
Red Diaper Daughter: Three Generations of Rebels and Revolutionaries
by:
Laura Bock
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
91.
The City of Joy
by:
Dominique Lapierre
4.26 avg rating — 8,085 ratings
95.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,680 ratings
95.
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Fanny Kemble
3.93 avg rating — 336 ratings
95.
A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women
by:
Phyllis Chesler
3.69 avg rating — 163 ratings
95.
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII
by:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.54 avg rating — 2,493 ratings
99.
Romany boy
by:
Leon Petulengro
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
99.
My Name is Not Chief: The Life of an American Indian
by:
Ben Blue
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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