Soft Heart Book Club Reading List

 

Soft Heart Book Club Reading List

Check out all books that have been on the list in this collection here.

You can pick up these books at your local library (check out the Libby App), local indie bookstore, or if you're buying online, I'd recommend getting them at Bookshop.org which is an excellent Amazon alternative for buying books that shares profits with independent bookstores around the country. (All links below go to Bookshop.org and are affiliate links which means your purchase also supports this book club being run 💜) If you're struggling to find a copy, please reach out to me via email or Discord, and I'm sure I can help you out 🤝

The book club is no longer having synchronous meetings, but you can check out some great reads from the backlog down below, and if you join the mailing list, you'll get interesting thoughts and book recommendations direct to your inbox 💌

See past readings below

2024

  • Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo
  • May 30 - Practicing New Worlds by Andrea Ritchie , et al. explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive.
  • Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
  • March 28 -  Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation explores the intersections of race, Buddhism, social justice, and personal awakening. Let's explore liberatory thinking internally, before moving on to how we create liberatory systems externally.
  • February 29 -  Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber explores the phenomenon of jobs that don't really need doing and why they exist anyway.
  • January 25 -  Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa, a fictional account of Palestinian love, life, and resistance written by a Palestinian-American author.

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    2023

    2022

    2021