NCEJN’s Book Recommendations 2025

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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 Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  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. and Dr. VJ’s 2025 Book List to Celebrate Women’s History Month

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

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