NON-FICTION BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: my nonfiction collection

here is my recommendation list of non-fiction books I want everyone to read! all the nonfiction books I own and have read that I think are essential books to read 🪐☄️ lots of communist theory, Black feminist texts, and books on gender and history and climate change/the environment. what are your nonfiction must-read, essential, required reading book recs?

Timestamps:
0:00 intro
01:18 braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer
02:59 Angela Davis
06:13 the castle of truth and other revolutionary tales
07:34 the combahee river collective
08:48 the autobiography of Malcolm x
09:45 revolution manifesto - state and revolution
11:09 sister outsider by Audre Lorde
12:35 is gender fluid
13:42 this changes everything by Naomi Klein
15:05 fearing the black body by Sabrina strings
16:00 a people’s history of the United States by Howard zinn
17:15 minor feelings by Cathy park hong
18:09 women’s bible commentary
19:49 outro

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[kailawkamo]

Braiding Sweetgrass was a lifechanger for me. Glad you got to have a hold of it ❤

[Parminderkaur-pgho]

thank you for this sunny…i have always wanted to read more nonfiction and i love this list

[haileymeyer]

I’ve been looking for nonfiction recs and I just found your channel! Thank you for this :)

[Read-alert]

For books with similar vibes, I'd recommend Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri (US edition called Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture), Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare, and Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

[nirvanaocean]

I get THE best recommendations from your videos, i’ve been binging them and i appreciate your reviews and what you recommend so much. The variety of genre and the genre you read in general i feel have been hard to find around booktube, since there is so much YA and romance content i love what you present

[rsie]

the sexual politics of meat. it's kind of about the correlation between feminism and vegetarianism/veganism.

"It looks at how patriarchal society treats women and nonhuman animals as objects and how if one wants to overturn patriarchy, one must give up meat because it is part of patriarchal power."

thank you for the recs!

[s.h.]

Great video, I knew that it would be amazing when I clicked on it (I enjoy all of your videos). I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X at the beggining of the year and it just changed me forever. I also read 2 out of the 3 Angela Davis books and now I want to get the third one. Anyways all really good recommendations, thank you! (Special mention to the THE HAIR!! The cut, the color, the styling! Amazing, I had to tell you xoxoxo)

[readwithJoey]

I LOVE YOUR MAKEUP 😍🤩 also thanks for the book recs really appreciated it 😊

[annatherese]

Do you have an existing book recommendations video specifically for beginners / people who want to learn more about socialism/capitalism?

[MariaPho]

What I’ve been looking for nonfic recommendations for days!

[rananajjar]

thank you for the recommendations! I always discover new books from your recommendations videos 😊

[butterflymagicwithhottea]

This is such an impressive assortment of culturally relevant topics. I love reading nonfiction am subscribing to your channel. You did such an good job summarizing and I will likely get into Braiding Sweetgrass. Thank you for sharing.

[turtleandbear]

thanks for this great list. Some of these books (ex. braiding sweetgrass) don't really enter my field of vision since i live in europe. so thanks for the introduction!

[corriesbooknook]

I love love love when you do your nonfiction rec videos. The books you speak about are always so encompassing and inclusive on various topics and levels. And I'm always here for it.

Braiding Sweetgrass is a book I've had on my TBR for some time now. I really should get on that.

Thank you for your recs and thoughts on them. 😊

[Breadof]

Thank you:)
YouTube and websites are mostly filled with fiction recommendations. But your video popped up on my YouTube feed just at the right time.

[ferventfei]

i just discovered your channel and just based off of the thumbnails, video titles and the books shown, i just know your taste will fit so much of mine. im so excited

[kirbymia]

Sunny you are amazing!🔥 some of the social change books I checked out in your previous videos really changed my life and I'm excited to read some of the ones here.

[thecoconatnat]

ooooh thank you !!! just last night i was looking for non-fics to read because i want to get into it

[aleksandraj]

Loved the video! But omg your hair! It looks so good 😍

[WatermelonSugar]

Great list! And that eye makeup looks so good