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 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.