Radical Book Fair 2023 - our audience's favourites
Jessica
If you had the chance to pop along to the Radical Book Fair this year, you might have seen a colourful notice board, set up against one of the Roxy's magnificent pillars, full of post-it notes.
Following on from our question to this year's speakers, we asked book fair attendants the same question: name one book that has changed the way you view the personal/political. We also asked the same on instagram stories.
These were the books you suggested. May they reach new readers and may the readers find each other, to create real change.
Linked Books
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- Just Kids
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- Smith, Patti
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- Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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- Herman, Edward S, Chomsky, Noam
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- Unmasking Autism : The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity
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- Price, Devon
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- Natives : Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
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- Akala
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- The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For
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- Bechdel, Alison
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- Feminist City : Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
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- Kern, Leslie
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- The Wretched of the Earth
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- Fanon, Frantz, Sartre, Jean-Paul, Farrington, Constance
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- Things Fall Apart
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- Achebe, Chinua
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- Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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- Eduardo Galeano
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- Stone Butch Blues
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- Leslie Feinberg
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- The Left Hand of Darkness
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- Le Guin, Ursula K.
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- A Seventh Man
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- Berger, John, Mohr, Jean
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- Blood, Bread, and Poetry : Selected Prose 1979-1985
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- Adrienne Rich
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- 1984
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- Orwell, George
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- The Rebel
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- Albert Camus
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- The Dispossessed
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- Le Guin, Ursula K.
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- All About Love : New Visions
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- hooks, bell
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- The Bluest Eye
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- Morrison, Toni
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- The Overstory : One of the most pressing stories of our time
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- Powers, Richard
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- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet : Wayfarers 1
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- Chambers, Becky
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- Bullshit Jobs : The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
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- Graeber, David
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- Frankenstein
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- Shelley, Mary
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- Abolish the Family : A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
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- Lewis, Sophie Anne
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- A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
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- Woolf, Virginia
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- The Grapes of Wrath
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- Steinbeck, Mr John
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- The Return of the Political
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- Mouffe, Chantal
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- Citizen : An American Lyric
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- Rankine, Claudia
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- Joyful Militancy : Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
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- Bergman, Carla, Montgomery, Nick
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- Les Miserables
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- Victor Hugo
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- Mutual Aid : A Factor of Evolution
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- Kropotkin, Peter
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- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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- Haley, Alex, X, Malcolm, Gilroy, Paul
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- We Do This 'Til We Free Us : Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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- Kaba, Mariame, Nopper, Tamara K., Murakawa, Naomi
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- Communion : The Female Search for Love : 2
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- hooks, bell
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- The Sirens Of Titan : The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams
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- Vonnegut, Kurt
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- The Argonauts
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- Nelson, Maggie
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- Sister Outsider
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- Lorde, Audre
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- The Transgender Issue : An Argument for Justice
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- Faye, Shon
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- In the Dream House : A Memoir
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- Machado, Carmen Maria
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- The Least of All Possible Evils : A Short History of Humanitarian Violence
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- Eyal Weizman
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- Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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- Eddo-Lodge, Reni
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- Caliban and the Witch : Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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- Federici, Silvia
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- Demon Copperhead : Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
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- Kingsolver, Barbara
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- CLR James : A Life Beyond the Boundaries
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- Williams, John L
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- The 1,000-year-old Boy
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- Welford, Ross
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- Your Silence Will Not Protect You : Essays and Poems
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- Lorde, Audre
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- The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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- Klein, Naomi
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- The Ethics of Opting Out : Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
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- Mari Ruti
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- Bluets
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- Maggie Nelson