Reading Lists

8 Books to Read for International Workers' Day

May 1 is International Workers' Day (also known as May Day), a day to honor laborers, labor movements, and the fight for workers’ rights. We’re celebrating by sharing a selection of books that present portraits of the American worker at different points in time, that tell the history of the labor movement in the US, and catch us up on contemporary fights to champion the rights of workers.

5 more books by Romesh Gunesekera to read after Suncatcher

Long Distance Reads to Read from Home

Need to distance yourself from the current situation?  We’d like to recommend six wonderful works that will transport you far, far away.

No need to keep your distance from great ideas and great books.

 

Suncatcher: A Novel
By Romesh Gunesekera

(Ceylon/Sri Lanka)

12 Books to Read for Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month, a month dedicated to highlighting the contributions of women to history and to contemporary society.

8 Books To Read for Black History Month 2020

We continue our Black History Month celebration with an essential roundup of new and backlist titles. These books span history, offering perspectives both individual and grand, showing us how to confront our present and build a more just future. 

 

8 Books for Confronting the Criminal Injustice System: A Just Mercy-Inspired Reading List

The Oscars are this weekend. While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates the year in motion pictures we thought we would celebrate one of our favorite films from 2019: Just Mercy, even if it wasn’t nominated.

We Own the Future: A Democratic Socialist Reading List

This new decade opens on a deeply turbulent time in history; with the 2020 US presidential election looming nearer, we are faced with ballooning debt, insecure job, healthcare, education, and housing prospects, and the imminent threat of climate catastrophe. In the wake of Donald Trump's 2016 election, a new wave of leftist organizing has swept across the country, fighting to reverse these trends.

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