Here’s a list of all the books I read this year. I’ll try to update this every few months in 2025. All the links provided are from either Rep.Club a Black-owned, women-owned independent bookstore in Los Angeles, or they’re from BookShop.org, which supports independent bookstores with every purchase.
Support local whenever you can. Buy used whenever you can. And more importantly read more for entertainment and also to gain empathy. I promise you won’t regret it.
- The Traces: An Essay by Mairead Small Staid
- Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It by Vivek Chibber
- The Heart of the Buddah’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hahn
- Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Josephine Riesman
- The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski - Classic Wiley: A Lifetime of Punchers, Players, Punks and Prophets by Ralph Wiley
- More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk by John Doe
- Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
- Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
- The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast by SH Fernando Jr
- Back from the Dead by Bill Walton
- Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Professional Wrestling’s New World Order Changed America by Marc Raimondi
- Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed Television—and America—Forever by Alan Siegel
- Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs by Peter Golenbock
- Tales from the Oakland Raiders Sideline by Tom Flores
- Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism by Maurizia Boscagli
- One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller
- The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play by Frank Andre Guridy
- Bread of Angels: A Memoir by Patti Smith
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