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
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 long-overdue account of the continent's global significance. (NoveList)
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Witness
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 Black men and women exploring what it means to be part of families and communities that are awash in hope and disappointment alike. (Publishers Weekly)
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Màgòdiz
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)
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The Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
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)
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VenCo
Fiction. A coven of diverse modern-day witches must band together to discover their seventh and final member before they’re hunted down. (Kirkus)
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Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
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)
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A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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)
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Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers
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 the Japanese government… Recalling Keum Seuk Gendry-Kim's Grass, this acts both as homage and witness, and as inspiration for new generations to speak out against stigma and silence.” (Publishers Weekly)
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Let This Radicalize You
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. (Publisher description)
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Before We Were Trans
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 the history of disrupting the gender binary is as long as human history itself. (Kirkus)
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