The Strategy and Soul Bookstore is proud to present Eight Curated Collections for the Holidays and Beyond
We are building a national network of organizers and readers who see the Strategy and Soul Bookstore as a “go to” center for political education. We have worked for years to compile a curated and common reading list for all of us who know a revolution is needed.

The Eric Mann Reader
Dispatches from Durban: Firsthand Commentaries— World Conference Against Racism by Eric Mann
Katrina’s Legacy: Black Reconstruction and Challenging U.S. Imperialist Climate Crimes by Eric Mann
Playbook for Progressive: The 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer by Eric Mann
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Black Communist Tradition
Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist by Harry Haywood
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of the Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies
The Man Who Cried Genocide: Autobiography of William L. Patterson
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice by Keith Gilyard
Here I Stand by Paul Robeson
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Young Organizers in Training Collection I
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance by Eleanor E. Tate
We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
The Watson’s go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story by Susan Robeson
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Young Organizers in Training Collection II
Harlem Renaissance Party by Faith Ringgold
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena
Sulwe by Lupita N’yongo
In the Time of Drums by Kim L. Siegleson
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
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Anti-imperialist Classics
The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon
Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano
Black Jacobins, by C.C.R. James
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney
Imperialism: The Highest State of Capitalism, by V.I. Lenin
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Black and Revolutionary Feminism
Black Internationalist Feminism, Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 by Cheryl Higashida
Patriarchy and Accumulation on A World Scale by Maria Mies
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Gerald Horne
Warrior Poet: Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux
Beyond Containment—Reflections, Essays and Poems by Claudia Jones
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Environmental and Climate Justice Curated Collection
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
Red/Green Revolution: The Technology and Economics of Ecosocialism by Victor Wallis
Capitalism in the Anthropocene Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution by John Bellamy Foster
Katrina’s Legacy The Black Nation Confronts U.S. Genocidal Climate Crimes by Eric Mann
The Sixth Extinction; An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Get this Collection for $84
