As you can probably tell, this blog is largely dedicated to book reviews! Here you can find a list of all of them, grouped by topic. Of course, most of these books are about more than one thing, but for the sake of simplicity I put them in whichever category I think best encompasses the book as a whole. Each category is organized in reverse chronological order.
Abortion & Reproductive Justice
- Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion by Gabrielle Blair
- Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal
- The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diane Greene Foster
- Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America by Lauren Rankin
- Reproductive Justice: An Introduction by Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
- The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
- Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt
Antiracism
- Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (And Don’t) Say About Human Difference by Adam Rutherford
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Astronomy
- The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Atheism
- Hi, I’m an Atheist!: What That Means and How to Talk About It with Others by David G. McAfee
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
- Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide by Richard Dawkins
- Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God by Armin Navabi
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Christian Apologetics
- The Causes and Cure of Unbelief by N. J. Laforêt
- The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Tim Keller
- The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief by James Spiegel
- The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel
- The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins
Christian History
- The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr
- The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
- How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee by Bart Ehrman
- Misquoting Jesus: The Story behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman
- Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart Ehrman
Christian Nationalism
- Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next by Bradley Onishi
- American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom by Andrew Seidel
- Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War by James Risen and Judy Thomas
- The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart
- The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American by Andrew Seidel
Evolution
- The A B C of Evolution by Joseph McCabe
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul by Kenneth Miller
- Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
Feminism
- Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
- White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Human Evolution
- Human Evolution: A Brief Insight by Bernard Wood and A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens by Silvana Condemi and François Savatier
- The Piltdown Men by Ronald Millar
- A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong About Human Evolution by Jeremy DeSilva
- Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall
- Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall
- The Jesuit and the Skull: Tielhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man by Amir D. Aczel
- Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human History by Lee Berger
- Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald Johanson
Human History
- Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Humanism
Language and Writing
LGBTQ+
- Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers
- The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice is Justice for All by Shon Faye
- Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw
Physics
- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Politics
Religious Texts
Science History
- A People’s History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and “Low Mechanicks” by Clifford Conner
- Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity, and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World by David Hutchings and James Ungureanu
- Eureka! The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory
- Carl Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson
- Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
- God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam
- Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science—from the Babylonians to the Maya by Dick Teresi
Social Issues
- White Magic by Elissa Washuta
- Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
- The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein