Year 7 with my public reading list. Find the last editions here: the 2025, 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 aware and intentional about the authors and their perspectives to not over-proportionally read books written by white, cis, heterosexual men.
One can’t really avoid that overrepresented perspective, so it requires conscious effort to honor all the other perspectives, minds and eyes to see through that there are.
These ideas, emotions, and experiences all have taught me so much and made my world brighter, more beautiful, vivid and also darker and scarier as new facets to the world we share unravels.
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 0/1
- Art or Graphic Novel/Non-Fiction/Fiction or Poetry 0/0/1
- Paper/e-reader/Audiobook 0/0/1
- The language I read/ heard the book in German/English 0/1
Books read in 2026
- January
- Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
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
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.
- Diskussionsgruppe LEA Left Ecological Association
- Amnesty International – Digital security and human rights