## Letter from Birmingham Jail (Penguin Modern)

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.

### Recommendations by Theme

#### SYSTEMIC RACISM
- **Fiction**  
  - *Legendborn* by Tracy Deonn  
  - *Blood at the Root* by LaDarrion Williams
- **Non-Fiction**  
  - *Between the World and Me* by Ta-Nehisi Coates  
  - *Letter from Birmingham Jail* by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

#### IMMIGRATION
- **Fiction**  
  - *Automatic Noodle* by Annalee Newitz
- **Non-Fiction**  
  - *They Called Us Enemy* by George Takei

#### COLONIZATION
- **Fiction**  
  - *Cry, Voidbringer* by Elaine Ho  
  - *This Place: 150 Years Retold*
- **Non-Fiction**  
  - *Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation* by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#### LGBTQIA+ EXPERIENCE
- **Fiction**  
  - *No Gods, No Monsters* by Cadwell Turnbull  
  - *Hell Followed With Us* by Andrew Joseph White
- **Non-Fiction**  
  - *A Little Queer Natural History* by Josh L. Davis  
  - *Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender* by Kit Heyam

#### PRISON ABOLITION
- **Fiction**  
  - *Chain-Gang All-Stars* by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- **Non-Fiction**  
  - *Abolitionist Intimacies* by El Jones

#### DISABILITY
- **Fiction**  
  - *Cinder* by Marissa Meyer
- **Non-Fiction**  
  - *Grievers* by adrienne marie brown

For other recommendations sorted by social justice topic, check out [AK Press](https://www.akpress.org/books.html), an independent publishing house that specializes in radical books.

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