#FBCReadathon 2023

Living Resistance

An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Narrated by: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.



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The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“Penned by #TransRightsReadathon founder Sim Kern! In an alternate 2020, in which Al Gore once won the presidency and Democrats have held court for 20 years…we still live in an economically and racially unjust, imperialist, carceral state (now with more greenwashing!), and teacher and punk band guitarist Maddie Ryan finds herself and her... Read more

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

By: Shauna Robinson
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

“I definitely enjoyed The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks. Maggie is a soul searching, high energy, purpose driven character who occasionally leans into her trickster tendencies to get herself both into and out of trouble. I enjoyed her journey into her best friend’s fictional Maryland town to do something as simple as running her bookshop in her... Read more

VenCo

A Novel

By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

“VenCo, by indigenous author Cherie Dimaline, is a feminist fantasy filled with badass, strong women, goddess magic, and a story that grabs your attention and doesn’t let go. When Lucky St. James, a Metis millennial living with her willful, stubborn grandmother suffering from the early stages of dementia finds an odd spoon engraved with a witch... Read more

Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

“A primer on disability justice, memoir, personal activism history, and love letter to disabled BIPOC femmes all at once. Read more

Goodbye Earl

A Revenge Novel

By: Leesa Cross-Smith
Narrated by: Mela Lee, Kamali Minter, Sarah Beth Goer, Erin Bennett, Traci Odom & Julian Thomas
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose. 

Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart.
 
In 2004, Rosemarie,... Read more

The Art of Gathering

How We Meet and Why It Matters

By: Priya Parker
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“Whether you're running a classroom, holding a meeting, or hosting a party, this book from Priya Parker offers a ton of insight on what makes a good gathering. Read more

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more

Emergent Strategy

Emergent Strategy: Book #0

By: adrienne maree brown
Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

“Perfect intro to those looking to start organizing and facilitating activist spaces! Read more

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Wayfarers: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

“Sometimes, you read a book that makes you smile inside and out. This book feels like a warm fuzzy hug, and I love it! This is a cozy space opera with loveable and flawed characters who are kind and considerate and try their best to do the right thing despite the harsh galaxy they exist in. I love the found family development in this novel. And... Read more

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed: Book #1

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“Excellent book and very relatable for these current times in the US. Read more

You Will Find Your People

How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult

By: Lane Moore
Narrated by: Lane Moore
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

From Lane Moore, the critically acclaimed author of How to Be Alone, comes an intimate yet achingly funny guide on how to make meaningful friendships as an adult.

Like many people navigating adulthood, Lane Moore thought she would have friends by now.

Movies, books, and TV shows tell us we should’ve already found our people by the time we’re... Read more

Beyond Survival

Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

By: Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Ejeris Dixon & Esteban Kelly
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often... Read more

All About Love

New Visions

By: bell hooks
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

“There’s nothing I can say about bell hooks that hasn’t already been said. This book is excellent and did cause me to think about love in a different way. It’s beautifully-written and philosophically brilliant. Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

“One of my all time favorite audiobooks, narrated in the author’s meditative voice. This book feels like walking through a field on a perfectly warm day. The balance of science and culture is perfect. Read more

All This Could Be Different

A Novel

By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
Narrated by: Reena Dutt
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

“All This Could Be Different tells the story of Sneha, a young queer brown woman living through the recession and coming into her adulthood. Told with beautiful prose that is both simple and captivating, I couldn’t put this down. To see the story of a complex, and at times troubling character, this book is one that I felt the need to sit with and... Read more

How We Show Up

Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

By: Mia Birdsong
Narrated by: Mia Birdsong
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection

After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes. They have family, friends, and colleagues, yet they still feel like they're... Read more

A Collective Bargain

Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

By: Jane McAlevey
Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy.For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness... Read more

Struggle and Mutual Aid

The Age of Worker Solidarity

By: Nicolas Delalande
Narrated by: Chris Abell
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century—from the 1860s to the... Read more