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From legalvoice Verified

Gender Justice Reading List

Legal Voice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that fights for gender justice through impact litigation, policy advocacy, education, and coalition building. The list below presents some of our favorite (work-related) books.

Learn more at legalvoice.org.

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The Turnaway Study by Diana Greene Foster

The Story of Jane by Laura Kaplan

This Common Secret by Susan Wicklund

Essential Labor by Angela Garbes

The Beginning and End of Rape by Sarah Deer

What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape by Sohaila Abdulali

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

Born Both by Hida Viloria

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell

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Spookily Ever After

Spooky season reads from cozy to spicy romance

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Die for Me by Shirlene Obuobi

With All My Haunted Heart by Isabel Sterling

Be Still My Unbeating Heart by Josh Winning

Dhampira by Amy Pennza

Cover of A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor (Standard Edition) by Kathryn Moon

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon

Entities to Lovers by Mallory Marlowe

Free Falling by Lyla Sage

Soul Searching by Lyla Sage

You're the One That I Haunt by Katie Jung

Damned If I Do by Alexandria Bellefleur

Doomsdate by Laura Piper Lee

10 Things I Hate about Zombies by Hazel Graves

Never Been Ghosted by Corina Bair

I Hope This Email Finds You in Hell by MacKenzie Reed

The Hocus Pocus Handbook by Ann Aguirre

Demons and Diplomacy by Megan Frampton

Cover of Some Kind of Haunted (Original) by Hazel Beck

Some Kind of Haunted by Hazel Beck

Hellbound by Stephanie Binx

Cover of The Hearth Witch's Guide to Spite & Spellwork (Deluxe Edition) by Kiri Callaghan

The Hearth Witch's Guide to Spite & Spellwork by Kiri Callaghan

I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend by Jessica Cage

From addabook_admin

Stop Scrolling, Start a Series

The average person in the United States spends over 2 hours a day scrolling through social media. The algorithms are designed to be addictive. But one way to break an unhealthy habit is to replace it with something that's better for you. May we introduce to you: book series

This list is comprised of the first books in a series. Yes, by reading these books, you may develop another time-consuming habit. Even if you get hooked, we expect you'll still feel better about spending your time flipping through these pages, instead of staring at a screen.

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Operation Black Horse by N J Gervasi

A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand

Outline by Rachel Cusk

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff

Recipes for Love and Murder by Sally Andrew

The Poppy War by R F Kuang

The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi

Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham

Morgan Is My Name by Sophie Keetch

The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman

City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Dragonfall by L R Lam

The Duke and I Deluxe Collector's Edition by Julia Quinn

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Wardenclyffe by Lloyd P Hall

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

The Cat Who Saved Books Gift Edition by Sosuke Natsukawa

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Conductors by Nicole Glover

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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For a Better Tomorrow

Amongst these titles, you'll find:

Inspiring stories of resisting tyrannic governments
Communities coming together in times of need
Persistent, relentless showing up for civil rights and justice
Guidance on what makes for effective, sustainable resistance movements
Hope that a better tomorrow is within reach if we fight for it

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On Courage by Julia Angwin

Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo

Wake by Rebecca Hall

Calling in by Loretta J Ross

Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman

Practical Radicals by Deepak Bhargava

The People's Project by Saeed Jones

What Can We Hope For? by Richard Rorty

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Protest by Annie Leonard

When the Revolution Comes by Chris Smalls

Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth

Nonviolent by James, Jr Lawson

A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs

Resisting Nazism by Luke Berryman

There's a Revolution Outside, My Love by Tracy K Smith

The Activist's Handbook by Randy Shaw

History Teaches Us to Resist by Mary Frances Berry

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London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe

London Falling

By Patrick Radden Keefe

dustinjamestn

Amazing read with such a web of connections to historic periods of Amine’s reign in Uganda and the holocaust.

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Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

Dog Songs

By Mary Oliver

bookhound

Every single dog lover should read this collection of poems. They are heart-warmers and tear-jerkers. As I read through them, I was thinking "This...

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Serious Music by Percival Everett

Serious Music

By Percival Everett

sruchti

In my top 5 novels by the grandmaster. In Everett's best, I think, the protagonists are frigging brilliant people living in a cruel society. I found...

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The Uproar by Karim Dimechkie

The Uproar

By Karim Dimechkie

bookhound

This story shows how a bit of (bad) luck - and some bad judgment here and there - can unravel everything. And how all the harm is amplified by a poor...

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