Social Justice Online Book Group 2025 TitlesLike this list

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• Conditional Citizens

  on Belonging in America

  Lalami, Laila, 1968-

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  Selected for January 22nd, 2025. A bracingly personal work of nonfiction concerned with the experiences of "conditional citizens". Lalami argues that conditional citizens are all the people whom America embraces with one arm and pushes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daring to Drive

  a Saudi Woman's Awakening

  Sharif, Manal, 1979-

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  Selected for February 26th, 2025. This is a memoir about living, loving, dreaming, daring, and driving while female in a country where it is dangerous to do all of the above.

• This Is How It Always Is

  Frankel, Laurie,

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  Selected for March 26th, 2025. Claude is the youngest of five brothers. He loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress and says he wants to be a girl when he grows up. His parents want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boys in the Bunkhouse

  Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

  Barry, Dan, 1958-

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  Selected for April 23rd, 2025. Told with compassion and compelling detail, this is the harrowing yet uplifting story of a resilient group of men with intellectual disabilities unfairly subjected to years of exploitation and abuse and those…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ground Breaking

  An American City and Its Search for Justice

  Ellsworth, Scott (Historian),

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  Selected for May 28th, 2025. In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Then, for nearly half a century, the story of the massacre was actively suppressed.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Undue Burden

  Life-and-death Decisions in post-Roe America

  Luthra, Shefali,

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  Selected for July 23rd, 2025. A timely examination of human rights, healthcare, and economic and racial inequality in America told through the perspectives of patients, providers, activists and lawmakers. Luthra examines abortion not as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just Mercy

  a Story of Justice and Redemption

  Stevenson, Bryan,

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  Selected for August 27th, 2025. The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undocumented Americans

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,

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  Selected for September 24th, 2025. Travelling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest daily to report the extraordinary stories of her fellow undocumented Americans. She powerfully reveals the hidden…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carry

  a Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

  Jensen, Toni,

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  Selected for October 22nd, 2025. A poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence. Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  Selected for November 26th, 2025. A simultaneously harrowing and humorous retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion are shown in an entirely new…Read moreRead more of this annotation