Social Justice Library

Social Justice Library

Ideas for your Summer Reading List!

As of May 2022, the bin will be kept inside the church library.

The bin containing the Little Library is accessible on Sundays and during regular church office hours inside the church library.  We encourage you to borrow these books into your summer reading.  

Until these books can be integrated into the church library, please use the check out process on the cover of the bin.  We ask that you take only ONE book at a time, and that you try to honour the recommended loan period of two weeks.    

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR HONOURING THIS PROCESS.   

Enjoy!

As of May 2022

Affordable Housing, Homelessness

  • Denise Davey. (2021) Her Name Was Margaret: Life and Death on the Streets 
  • Greg Suttor (2016) Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy 

Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression

  • Desmond Cole (2020) The Skin We’re In   
  • Isabel Wilkerson (2020) Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
  • Larry Ward (2020) America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal 
  • Nikole Hannah Jones (2021) The 1619 Project
  • Haroon Siddiqui (2004) Being Muslim 

Environmental Injustice

  • Seth Klein (2021) A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency 
  • Tara McKenna (2022) Don’t be trashy: A Practical Guide to Living with Less Waste and More Joy.
  • Mary Robinson (2019) Climate Justice: A Manmade Problem with a Feminist Solution
  • Maja Lunde (2020)  The End of the Ocean
  • David Wallace-Wells (2019) The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming  

Gender and Sexual Justice:

  • Craig Jennex & Nisha Eswaran (2020) North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada
  • Samra Habib. (2020) We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir (Won Canada reads 2020)
      • Stephanie Kelton (2021) The Deficit Myth 

Income Inequality:

  • Jeff Rubin (2020) The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed by Globalization
  • Richard S. Gilbert (2001) How Much do we Deserve: An Inquiry into Distributive Justice (UUA Bookstore)
  • Richard S. Gilbert (200-) Prophetic Imperative:  Social Gospel in Theory and Practice (UUA Bookstore)
  • Mark W. Harris (2010) Elite: Uncovering Classism in UU History (UUA Bookstore)
  • Stephanie Kelton (2021) The Deficit Myth 
  • Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (2009) The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

Indigenous Issues

  • Melanie Florence and Francois Thisdale (2016) Missing Nimama
  • Colleen Cardinal (2018) Ohpikiihaakan-Ohpihmen (Raised Somewhere Else): A 60s Scoop Adoptee’s Story of Coming Home.
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
  • Bob Joseph (2018) 21 Things you May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality
  • Bob Joseph (2019) Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality
  • Mary Jo Leddy (2015) Why Are We Here? A Meditation on Canada 
  • Jordan Abel (2021) Nishga
  • Kazim Ali (2021) Northern Light:    Power, Land, and Memory of Water 
  • Khursheed Ahmed ed., Published by Gandhi Peace Festival (2021). Living Gandhi Today: Truth and Reconciliation in our Community.

Books for Youth and Young Adults 

  • Naomi Klein (2021) How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other (2 cc)
  • Waubgeshig Rice (2018) Moon of the Crusted Snow A post-apocalyptic novel about Indigenous survival.
  • Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi. (2020) Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning)