An Antifascist Reading List

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22 participants, 30 books

You can start and finish this challenge whenever you like!

We can mourn, or we can resist. This list focuses on American fascism and is based on the antifascist reading lists from Scuppernong Books, Wade Overly at UNC Greensboro, and Timothy Snyder in “On Tyranny” with other additions as appropriate. 

Challenge Books

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It by Shane Burley

Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It

Shane Burley

Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith

Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

Mychal Denzel Smith

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America – A Recent History by Kurt Andersen

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America – A Recent History

Kurt Andersen

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Nancy MacLean

1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland by Issac J. Bailey

Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland

Issac J. Bailey

Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think by David Litt

Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think

David Litt

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

David Zucchino