What It Means to be an Activist

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: What It Means to be an Activist

This is a list about activism.  The life and times of the activists.  Their influence on the causes they take up.  The sacrifices they make.  

General

• Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein

Animal Rights

• Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba

Ecological Sustainability

• The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston

Economics

• Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
• Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Politics

• Amerikaganistan, Dystopia Inc.: What Every Movement Activist Should Know by Dale Johnson

Race/Ethnicity

• Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter

Sovereignty 

• Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
• Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
• A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
• Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser

Sovereignty / Fiction

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)

Women Rights

• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
• The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
• Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
• Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane

Women Rights / Fiction

• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin