Waking the Moon

Elizabeth Hand

An ancient secret order finds itself up against its most powerful foe: the Moon Goddess has returned.

We, the Heartbroken

Gargi Bhattacharyya

“Heartbreak is the heart of all revolutionary consciousness.”

Apocalypse

Lizzie Wade

An apocalypse is always both an ending and a beginning.

Reclaiming Work

André Gorz

“We must dare to prepare ourselves for the Exodus from ‘work-based society’: it no longer exists and will not return.”

Slow River

Nicola Griffith

Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.

Ammonite

Nicola Griffith

Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.

Always

Nicola Griffith

Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.

Stay

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.

Let This Radicalize You

Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba

“Radical” means “pertaining to the root,” that is, the foundation or center of things, the point from which something grows.

The Blue Place

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.

For Health Autonomy

CareNotes Collective

After austerity measures pushed nearly a million people in Greece out of the healthcare system, dozens of social solidarity clinics emerged, providing free preventative and integrative healthcare to thousands of people.

Non-things

Byung-Chul Han

“We are becoming blind to small, inconspicuous things, to what is common, the incidental and the customary—the things that do not attract us but ground us in being.”

The Telling

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there.

Superior

Angela Saini

The subtitle of Angela Saini’s Superior refers to the return of race science—but reading it, it’s abundantly clear that race science never went away.

The Mismeasure of Man

Stephen Jay Gould

First published in 1981—thirteen years before The Bell Curve—Stephen Jay Gould’s Mismeasure of Man nonetheless claims to be the definitive refutation of that deeply racist book.

Five Ways to Forgiveness

Ursula K. Le Guin

When the Hain first visit the Werelian system, they encounter a people living in a rigid and violently hierarchical system, separated into “owners” and “assets.”

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

In the words of Robin D. G. Kelley’s introduction, this book is a “declaration of war.”

Wildwood

Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin’s journey through trees takes him through the woods of Britain and Europe, to Kazakhstan and Australia, finding fellowship with a good many trees and the critters that live among them, as well as many lovely and interesting people.

The Light Eaters

Zoë Schlanger

Amidst the noisy and nonsensical discourse about recognizing the intelligence of machines, Zoë Schlanger asks us to open our eyes to the intelligence that already surrounds us and upon which we wholly depend: that of plants.

Mutual Aid

Dean Spade

A concise primer on the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.