2025 Book List
While I’ve loved collecting books and often add to our community’s Free Library I haven’t found reading books to come easy for me. Perhaps my lack of focus comes from the bombardment of social media, my anxiety, exhaustion or whatever else is floating around in my happy brain. In the pursuit of changing this I got a local library card as well a a card from the New York Public Library. For the holidays I asked for a kindle, which so far has been incredibly helpful and I am also finding audiobooks to be a great fit for me. As I get back into reading I’ve been taking notes on books that I am planning to read and rather than keep this list to myself I decided to make it public. Hopefully you’ll find something that piques your interest. I’ll be updating this list often and noting the books that I have completed.
Where no black women has gone before by Diana Adesola Mafe
Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino by Adilifu Nama
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series) by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum
Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin
Outsourced Empire: How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors Support US Statecraft by Andrew Thomson
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
Defend / Defund: A Visual History of Organizing Against the Police
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century by A. Naomi Paik
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition Book by Silky Shah
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration by Julie Hirschfeld, Davis & Michael D. Shear - Free PDF HERE
The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness by Nathalie Olah
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Philip Fernbach and Steven A. Sloman - Completed Feb 2025 (borrowed from the Library)
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair - Started Feb 2025 (borrowed from the Library)
The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair - Completed Jan 2025 (borrowed from the Library)
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman - Completed Feb 2025 (borrowed from the Library)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Completed Jan 2025 (borrowed from the Library)
I survived Capitalism and All I got was this lousy T-Shirt by Madeline Pendleton - Completed Jan 2025 (borrowed from the Library)
Updated 2/13/2025