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My Diverse Reading List 2025

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Year 6 with my public reading list. Find the last editions here: the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020 diverse reading list with summaries, insights, stats, and recommendations for those years.
Generally speaking: Having read a book is NOT an endorsement.

I said enough about the intention of being intentional to not over-proportionally read books written by white, cis, heterosexual men. Not to dismiss their perspective, of which I have had my fair share. Plus I can’t really avoid having to be aware of most of the time, but to honour all the other perspectives, minds and eye to see through there are. The ideas, emotions, and experiences. It all has taught me so much and made my world brighter, more beautiful, vivid and also darker and scarier.

Do you have tips, authors, or books you think I should read or how to do the stats better? Please send me a message!
berta @ herrberta.art

The stats so far

  • Everybody else/white, hetero cis-Men 4/0
  • Art or Graphic Novel/Non-Fiction/Fiction or Poetry 1/2/1
  • Paper/e-reader/Audiobook 1/0/3
  • The language I read/ heard the book in German/English 2/2

Books read in 2025

  • January
  • Lisa Jasper, Naomi Ryland, Silvie Horch (Hrsg.) – Unlearn Patriarchy
  • Seanan McGuire – Lost in the Moment and Found
  • Peggy Elfmann – Meine Eltern werden alt
  • Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda – The Night Eaters
  • February
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Diverse reading list: Books I’d like to read

Book already bought

  • Eleonora Roldán Mendívil & Bafta Sarbo (Hrsg.) – Die Diversität der Ausbeutung
  • McKenzie Wark – Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?
  • Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff – Black Joy
  • Peter Bierl – Einmaleins der Kapitalismuskritik
  • Valeria Bruschi & Moritz Zeiler (Hrsg.) – Das Klima des Kapitals
  • Thomas Piketty – Sozialismus der Zukunft
  • Thích Nhất Hạnh – The art of power

Library Audiobook available

  • Frank Ostaseski – The Five Invitations: What the Living Can Learn From the Dying
  • Robert Jones Jr. – The Prophets
  • Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the Oppressed
  • Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
  • Juli Zeh – über Menschen
  • Joan Halifax – Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
  • Paul Mason – Postkapitalismus

Other

  • Gustav Landauer
  • Judith Butler
  • Manon Garcia – We aren’t born submissive
  • Paul B. Preciado – Kontrasexuelles Manifest
  • Suzette Haden Elgin – Native Tongue
  • Sabine Bode – Kriegsspuren
  • Pohl, Rolf: Feindbild Frau – Männliche Sexualität, Gewalt und die Abwehr des Weiblichen.
  • Elvia Wilk – Oval or Death by Landscape
  • Emily M. Danforth – Plain Bad Heroines
  • Alok Vaid-Menon – Beyond the gender binary
  • Francis Seeck & Brigitte Theißl – Solidarisch gegen Klassismus
  • Nick Kolenda – Methods of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior
  • Dilek Güngör – Vater und ich
  • Rae Johnson – Embodied Activism
  • Erin Morgenstern – The Starless Sea: the spellbinding Sunday
  • Leonora Carrington – The Hearing Trumpet
  • Penélope Bagieu – Valerosas 2 : mujeres que solo hacen lo que ellas quieren
  • Nalo Hopkinson – So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Alexis Lothian – Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
  • Diane di Prima – Recollections of My Life as a Woman
  • Saul D. Alinsky – Call Me a Radical: Organizing and Empowerment

Comic books/ Graphic novels

We have 2 series we are following. I am trying to stick to the rule of only having 5. We can only start a new one once we officially stop another, preferably when the story is finished.

  • Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda – Monstress
  • Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram – Little Bird

Courses to take/ Groups to participate in

Books aren’t the only way to develop a better understanding of the world, so I’ll list some talks, courses, and groups I am engaged in or plan on being engaged in.


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