NCEJN’s Book Recommendations 2025

On January 21st, 2025 we announced the addition of our BOOK CORNER in our Tuesday newsletter.

Here is the list of books we have recommended since then:

1. It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move on by Malaika Jabali
2. Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor
3. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire 
4. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Hall, Rebecca | Illustrated by Hugo Martínez
5. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Novel)
6. The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth by Andreas Malm
7. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
8. Genocide Bad by Sim Kern
9. Mergoat Vol. 2 N°2: Dissembling the Split Rail (Magazine)
10. Freedom Farmers Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M White
11. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
12. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
13. Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie by Hage, Dave and Marcotty, Josephine
14. Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market by Hanieh, Adam
15. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
16. Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
17. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
18. A Woman is a School: by Celine Semaan
19. I want a better catastrophe: Navigating the climate crisis with grief, hope, and gallows humor by Andrew Boyd
20. The Black Antifascist Tradition: fighting back from anti-lynching to abolition by Jeanelle Hope and Bill Mullen
21. Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six by Jordan Flaherty
22. Dr. VJ’s 2025 Book List to Celebrate Women’s History Month
23. The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W Kahrl
24. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of The World by David Graeber
25. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
26. Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time by Rasheedah Phillips
27. The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman
28. Terms of Servitude, Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle by Omar Zahzah
29. Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power by Matthew Hild (Editor), Keri Leigh Merritt (Editor)
30. Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World by Subcomandante Marcos
31. War and Money: The Imperialism of the Dollar by Maurizio Lazzarato
32. Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention by Maywa Montenegro de Wit
33. Hell Healing and Resistance: Veterans Speak by Daniel William Hallock
34. Gaza:The Story of a Genocide Edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro 
35. Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal by Bob Wyss
36. Pollution Is Colonialism by Max Liboiron
37. Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin

Do you have a book recommendation? Please email us at rania@ncejn.org.