What are we reading? Check out the selections and vote for what you want to read.
#March 2024 Monthly Poll
ebon parrot
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 388 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111975.Golden_Gulag
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates, 366 pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48635408-men-who-hate-women
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet, 352 pages https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61089467
God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America byBruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, 448 pages (this is new in Jan 2024 so ensure you can get it) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136343698-god-guns-and-sedition
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ruby hearth
I'll be honest: while these books seem quite interesting on their own (I've heard especially from Bates' book), I have to admit that this selection is very much centered around very similar topics and either US topics or that are very centered in the US. I would have welcomed a bit more of diversity in topics
ruby hearth
We can always look into past suggestions that lost the vote for little and would probably gather a lot of interest
ebon parrot
I generally reach into the past to try and make the selection varied, and do a "losers but not by much" round every few months
but I do exclude "books from academic publishers that cost a fortune" to try and keep things accessible
ruby hearth
Yeah that's totally fair
ebon parrot
but I also try to give each suggestion its time in the sun 🙂
narrow reef
I am currently reading Fatema Mernissi's Sherazade goes West. It's from 2001 but I think def still relevant