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Non-Fiction Reading

These are the non-fiction books that have most informed my thinking on the topics I write about:

The Climate Crisis

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, All Art is Ecological, and Dark Ecology - Timothy Morton

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein

Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet - George Monbiot

The Shock of the Anthropocene - Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells

The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture - Sarah Jaquette Ray

Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines - Tony Juniper

When the Rivers Run Dry: The Global Water Crisis and How to Solve it - Fred Pearce

Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown - Laurie Laybourn-Langton and Mathew Lawrence

Activism

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - adrienne maree brown

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paolo Freire

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology - David Graeber

Black Resistance to British Policing - Adam Elliot-Cooper

Rest is Resistance - Tricia Hersey

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. - Martin Luther King Jr., Edited by Claybourne Carson

The Power of Nonviolent Resistance - M. K. Gandhi

The Intersectional Environmentalist - Leah Thomas

Why You Should be a Trade Unionist and Always Red - Len McCluskey

How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Andreas Malm

Common Sense for the 21st Century - Roger Hallam

Feminism

all about love: new visions, the will to change: men, masculinity and love, Ain't I a Woman?, and Outlaw Culture - bell hooks

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power - Lola Olufemi

On Violence and On Violence Against Women - Jacqueline Rose

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice - Shon Faye

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Perez

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women - Kate Manne

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary - Travis Alabanza

Racial Justice

Don't Touch My Hair - Emma Dabiri

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter - Daniel Heath Justice

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Alex Haley

Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Y. Davis

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - Frederick Douglass

Capitalism

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

No Logo and The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Mark Fisher

Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology - Vandana Shiva

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshanna Zuboff

Platform Capitalism - Nick Srnicek

Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - James Meek

Art

Ways of Seeing - John Berger

The Prometheans: John Martin and the Generation that Stole the Future - Max Adams

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Amitav Ghosh

How Plays Work - David Edgar

Obedience, Struggle and Revolt: Lectures on Theatre - David Hare

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within - Stephen Fry

Science, Maths and Technology

The Order of Time, Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, Reality is Not What it Seems, and Helgoland - Carlo Rovelli

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality - Manjit Kumar

Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst - Robert Sapolsky

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy - Cathy O'Neill

Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) - Barry Mazur

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