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Book Bingo NW 2025: Resistance

Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: Resistance. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and King County Library System.

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  • An African History of Africa

    From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

    Badawi, Zeinab, 1959-
    Nonfiction. This sweeping historical survey traces Africa's rich legacy from prehistory to the present, exploring ancient civilizations, medieval empires and colonialism's impact, while highlighting African voices and perspectives to offer a…
    Book, 2025New York : Mariner Books, [2025]
  • Fiction. In his dazzling sophomore collection, Brinkley digs into the promises and dangers of intimacy and the costs of speaking up or staying silent… Throughout, Brinkley crafts unforgettable portraits, humming with barely restrained tension, of…
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
  • Fiction. Calderón's writing, elegantly infused with Anishinaabe stories and language, feels modern and urgent in its message, while being grounded in traditions old enough to touch the roots of a dying world and help regrow them. (Publishers Weekly)
    Book, 2022Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2022]
  • Teen Nonfiction. Designed especially to inform and activate young readers, these pages pay particular attention to the threats facing the most basic tenets of American democracy… (Publisher description)
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : OR Books, [2025]
  • Fiction. A coven of diverse modern-day witches must band together to discover their seventh and final member before they’re hunted down. (Kirkus)
    Book, 2023New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
  • Nonfiction. Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal, an ode to the steadfastness of the nation. (Publisher description)
    Book, 2025Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2025.
  • Nonfiction. Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson takes us from the bustling port cities of New York and New Orleans to the streets of London and Paris in search of the emergence of modern trans misogyny. (Publisher description)
    Book, 2024London ; New York : Verso, 2024.
  • Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers

    Remembering the "comfort Women" of World War II

    Han, Sŭng-wŏn, 1939-
    Teen Nonfiction. Based on Seong-won's interviews, the volume sensitively depicts the activism of… "comfort women"… and their participation in the "longest running single protest in the world," which began in 1992 and which calls for an apology from…
    Graphic Novel, 2023Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, 2023.
  • Let This Radicalize You

    Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

    Hayes, Kelly (Activist)
    Nonfiction. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing… This book is intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making.…
    Book, 2023Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2023.
  • Nonfiction. In this highly informative text, Heyam, a U.K.--based queer history activist and trans awareness trainer, tells a wide variety of pertinent stories that are often left out of the trans narrative… A capable, worthy demonstration of how…
    Book, 2022New York : Seal Press, 2022.
  • We Refuse

    a Forceful History of Black Resistance

    Jackson, Kellie Carter
    Nonfiction. A sharp alternative history of Black responses to white supremacy… an uncompromising yet accessible rejoinder to conventional wisdom about race and violence in the U.S. (Kirkus)
    Book, 2024New York : Seal Press, 2024.
  • Fight Like Hell

    the Untold History of American Labor

    Kelly, Kim (Journalist)
    Nonfiction. Journalist and union organizer Kelly debuts with a rousing look at the contributions of marginalized groups to the U.S. labor movement. Shedding new light on key players and episodes within a diverse range of industries--from textile and…
    Book, 2022New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2022.
  • Fiction. In this extraordinary historical novel, debut author Kim weaves together the story of friends and rivals trying to survive and thrive from the era of the Japanese occupation of Korea to the political purges of the mid-20th century. (Kirkus)
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Ecco, [2021]
  • A Land With a People

    Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism : a Collection of Personal Stories, History, Poetry, and Art

    Nonfiction. In giving us everyday narratives of Palestinian courage and resilience, alongside accounts of a growing Jewish resistance to Zionism, the book offers a collective story of fierce struggles against racism and apartheid… a story that holds…
    Book, 2021New York : Monthly Review Press, [2021]
  • Fiction. Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel about utopian anarchists is as relevant as ever… Inexhaustibly rich and wise. (Scientific American)
    Book, 2024New York : HarperPerennial Modern Classics, [2024]
  • It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful

    How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

    Lowery, Jack (Writer)
    Nonfiction. Editor Lowery debuts with a fascinating study of how art galvanized AIDS activism in the 1980s and '90s. He documents how a small group of activists in New York City developed the symbol of a pink triangle on a black background…
    Book, 2022New York : Bold Type Books, 2022.
  • Unshrinking

    How to Face Fatphobia

    Manne, Kate
    Nonfiction. A brave, thought-provoking book. With rigorous research and personal experience, Manne tackles and dismantles fatphobia in all its forms. (Kirkus)
    Book, 2024New York : Crown, [2024]
  • Nonfiction. Framing the narrative with his own family’s story… Meléndez-Badillo finds hope for a brighter future in Puerto Ricans themselves, especially in emerging leaders from a younger generation inspired by the ‘collective rage’ in Bad Bunny’s…
    Book, 2024Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2024]
  • By the Fire We Carry

    the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

    Nagle, Rebecca,
    Nonfiction. A Cherokee journalist unpacks the landmark 2020 Supreme Court case that recognized the eastern half of the state of Oklahoma as Indian country. (Kirkus)
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
  • Nonfiction. A young woman’s life among her people in the Ecuadorian rainforest, battling the onslaught of bulldozers and oil wells...An essential memoir of Indigenous resistance to economic subjugation and cultural extinction. (Kirkus)
    Book, 2024New York : Abrams Press, 2024.