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Banned Books List

There should be no such thing as banned books. But since there are, we think these should be on your reading list. For an even wider selection, drop by our store in West Seattle!

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Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs Jr

Sula by Toni Morrison

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Hate U Give American Classics Edition by Angie Thomas

The Giver by Lois Lowry

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

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Conservation Reading Group

Birds Connect Seattle invites you to read and learn with us. Together, we'll deepen our understanding of conservation and become stronger advocates for birds and nature.

Learn more about and join our reading group here: https://birdsconnectsea.org/learn/conservation-reading-group/

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The Bird with Flaming Red Feet by Maria Mudd Ruth

Cover of We Will Be Jaguars (Reese's Book Club Pick) by Nemonte Nenquimo

We Will Be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo

A Natural History of Empty Lots by Christopher Brown

Crossings by Ben Goldfarb

Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney

Silent Earth by Dave Goulson

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Books to help you reduce your screen time

We could all use less time with our phones and more time reading

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How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition by Catherine Price

Smartphone Nation by Kaitlyn, PhD Regehr

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Unplug by Richard Simon

Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! by Julio Vincent Gambuto

Over Work by Brigid Schulte

Making Time by Maria Bowler

Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

Things That Matter by Joshua Becker

The Joy of Solitude by Robert J Coplan

The Practice of Attention by Cody Cook-Parrott

Burnout by Emily Nagoski

How to Stop Trying by Kate Williams

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Meaningful Memoirs

These authors don’t just recount what happened in their memoirs; they sit with hard questions and identify the turning points that made them who they are. Sometimes they make us laugh, sometimes the stories hit hard. Either way, there's often a lesson for us all, even in these deeply personal accounts.

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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

Ma and Me by Putsata Reang

Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

The Home Place by J Drew Lanham

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon

Quitter by Erica C Barnett

The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza

Light and Thread by Han Kang

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong

Becoming Little Shell by Chris La Tray

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

Becoming the Ocean by Erin Russ

None of the Above by Travis Alabanza

Mainline Mama by Keeonna Harris

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb

A Thousand Ways to Die by Trymaine Lee

Educated by Tara Westover

The Waterbearers by Sasha Bonét

Strangers by Belle Burden

The Blue Jay's Dance by Louise Erdrich

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

Spinning by Tillie Walden

Stay with Me, I Want to Be Alone by Keith W Wakefield

Trans by Juliet Jacques

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Next of Kin by Gabrielle Hamilton

Stay True by Hua Hsu

Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

Leaving Home by Mark Haddon

I'll Tell You When I'm Home by Hala Alyan

Carry by Toni Jensen

Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace

Cover of Bad Indians (Expanded Edition) by Deborah Miranda

Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda

Woman of Interest by Tracy O'Neill

Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal

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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

Wake by Rebecca Hall

Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo

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

Resisting Nazism by Luke Berryman

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

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

Recent Notes

Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin

Right-Wing Women

By Andrea Dworkin

evie

Very commanding tone in the authors writing. Had me profoundly sad in moments and affirmed a lot of my own conclusions on the sex classes based on my...

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The Crash by Freida McFadden

The Crash

By Freida McFadden

kateml

Every time I read a Freida McFadden book I say I'm never reading another Freida McFadden book.

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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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The Boys in the Light by Nina Willner

The Boys in the Light

By Nina Willner

mk797

Almost was down to an okay, but man, the last 100 pages pack a punch. The beginning was very hard to get through, very basic background information...

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