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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We Refuse
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)
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Fight Like Hell
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 trucking to sex work--this invigorating labor history is also a powerful call for today's workers to fight for their rights. (Publishers Weekly)
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Beasts of A Little Land
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)
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A Land With A People
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 important lessons to all who have dedicated their lives to justice, equality and freedom. (Angela Davis)
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The Dispossessed
Fiction. Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel about utopian anarchists is as relevant as ever… Inexhaustibly rich and wise. (Scientific American)
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It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful
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 accompanied by the text "Silence=Death" in 1985… a captivating look at the power of art as a political tool. (Publishers Weekly)
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Unshrinking
Nonfiction. A brave, thought-provoking book. With rigorous research and personal experience, Manne tackles and dismantles fatphobia in all its forms. (Kirkus)
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Puerto Rico
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 song, "El Apagon". (Booklist)
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By the Fire We Carry
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)
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We Will Be Jaguars
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)
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