Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y Davis

Short, succinct, and full of unbelievable amounts of hard data on the Prison Industrial Complex and alternative Justice systems.

Dawn of Everything — A New History of Humanity - Davis Graeber

a complete refutation of white supremacist anthropological histories, a ray of hope in this world of reactionaries and anti communists. Seriously, this is among the most important books I’ve ever read.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Alex Haley

This book has a lot going for it. It so well describes the experience of black Americans in that time period, and the growth of Malcolm across his life is inspiring as all hell. Even the most broken among us is capable of turning towards truth and fighting for Justice.

The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu

This one is a fiction work, but it’s so interesting reading a book from o utside the capitalist sphere. I recommend it if you like sci-fi and AES.

Not a Nation of Immigrants—Settler-Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion - Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

This book does a lot of work to dispel American cultural mythologies and does great work on identifying and categorizing Settler-Colonialism. Bonus: it’s where I learned about JFK platforming a racists false history that claimed that the Irish were the original indigenous Americans, and that the indigenous kicked them out and stole their land.