Books that Deal with Important Social Issues

Social Summer

Racial Discrimination

  1. Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto- Jinthana Haritaworn
  2. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration- Isabel Wilkerson
  3. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City- Tanya Talaga
  4. The New Jim Crows: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colour-blindness- Michelle Alexander
  5. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present- Robyn Maynard
  6. Natives- Akala
  7. So You Wany to Talk About Race- Ijeoma Oluo
  8. Making of the Black Working Class in Britain- Ron Ramdin
  9. How to Be an Antiracist- Ibram X. Kendi
  10. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
  11. Between the World and Me- Ta-Nehisi Coates
  12. The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas
  13. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism- Robin DiAngelo
  14. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You- Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
  15. My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women- Lyse Doucet

LGBTQ+ Discrimination

  1. Queering Urban Justuce: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto- Jinthana Haritaworn
  2. Good As You- Pail Flynn
  3. We Are Everywhere: Protests, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation- Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
  4. How we Fight for Our Lives- Saeed Jones
  5. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir- Samra Habib
  6. Queer Intention- A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTG+ Culture- Amelia Abraham
  7. Trans Britain: Our Journey From The Shadows- Christine Burns
  8. The Stonewall Reader- The New York Public Library, Jason Baumann and Edmund White
  9. The Argonauts- Maggie Nelson
  10. Tomorrow Will Be Different- Sarah McBride
  11. A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns- Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson
  12. The Book of Pride- Mason Funk
  13. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches- Audre Lorde

 Gender Discrimination

  1. Invisible Women: Exposing the Gender Bias Women Face Every Day- Caroline Criado-Perez
  2. Men Who Hate Women- Laura Bates
  3. Women, Race and Class- Angela Davis
  4. The Authority Gap- Mary Ann Sieghart
  5. Men Explain Things to Me- Rebecca Solnit
  6. The Cost of Sexism- Linda Scott
  7. Enough: The Violence Against Women and How to End It- Harriet Johnson
  8. Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women White Feminists Forgot- Mikki Kendall
  9. Everyday Sexism- Laura Bates
  10. The Guilty Feminist- Deborah Frances-White
  11. The Vindication of the Rights of Woman- Mary Wollstonecraft
  12. A Room of One’s Own- Virginia Woolf
  13. Feminism is for Everybody- Bell Hooks
  14. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches- Audre Lorde
  15. This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition- Cherríe Moraga
  16. We Should All Be Feminists- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  17. Bad Feminist- Roxane Gay
  18. Girl Up- Laura Bates
  19. Women and Power- Professor Mary Beard
  20. Motherhood: Feminism’s Unfinished Business- Eliane Glaser

The Environment and Climate Change

  1. How to Give Up Plastic- Will McCallum
  2. Storming the Wall-Todd Miller
  3. Small is Beautiful- Ernst T Schumacher
  4. All We Can Save- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson
  5. The Unhabitable Earth: Life After Warming- David Wallace-Wells
  6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants- Robin Wall Kimmerer
  7. Net Zero: How We Can Stop Climate Change- Dieter Helm
  8. The Future We Choose- Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
  9. Living Planet- Sir David Attenborough
  10. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference- Greta Thunberg
  11. The Sixth Extinction- Elizabeth Kolbert
  12. There is No Planet B- Mike Berners-Lee
  13. The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide- Jen Gale
  14. What We Need to do Now: for a Zero Carbon Future- Chris Goodall

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