このブログ、現時点(08/03/2022)で約350冊の本を紹介しているのですが、あまりに多すぎてどの本がオススメなのか分かりにくいので、特におススメな本を分野別に以下にリストアップしておきます。あと、本当におススメなのにブログに載せてない(ツイッターで読書報告をはじめる前に読んだ)本がたくさんあるので、そのうち足していきます。
「いやこれでも多いだろ!もっと厳選しろよ!」と思った方へ。とりあえずそれぞれの分野のなかでおススメ度の高い順番(僅差なことが多いけど)に載せているので参考にしてください。
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わたし的読書大賞(2022年1月から)
- 2022年7月: Treva B. Lindsey著「America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice」
- 2022年6月: Edafe Okporo著「Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto」
- 2022年5月: Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz著「Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies」およびKim Kelly著「Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor」
- 2022年4月: Jack Lowery著「It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic」及びNell McShane Wulfhart著「The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet」
- 2022年3月: Tomiko Brown-Nagin著「Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality」
- 2022年2月: Tiffanie Drayton著「Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream」
- 2022年1月: Laura Coates著「Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness」
フェミニズム
- Rafia Zakaria著「Against White Feminism」
- Amia Srinivasan著「The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century」
- Saseli Bowen著「Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist」
- Kyla Schuller著「The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism」
- Linda Babcockほか著「The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work」
- Leslie Kern著「Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-made World」
クィア&トランス
- Shon Faye著「The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice」
- Sarah Schulman著「Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993」
- Jack Lowery著「It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic」
- Moya Bailey著「Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance」
- Jill Gutowitz著「Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays」
- Nicole Pasulka著「How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn」
- Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley & Johanna Burton編「Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility」
ブラック・ライブズ・マター
- Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa著「His Name Is George Floyd: One man’s life and the struggle for racial justice」
- Wesley Lowery著「They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement」
- Dave Zirin著「The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World」
- Vicky Osterweil著「In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action」
- Tiffanie Drayton著「Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream」
- Edafe Okporo著「Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto」
- Alicia Garza著「The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart」
- Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele著「When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir」
性暴力、#MeToo
- Tarana Burke著「Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement」
- Christina Lamb著「Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women」
- Rachel Vogelstein & Meighan Stone著「Awakening: # MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights」
- Denis Mukwege著「The Power of Women: A journey of hope and healing」
- Emily Joy Allison著「#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing」
障害学、障害者運動
- Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner著「Being Heumann: The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist」
- Eric Garcia著「We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation」
刑罰・刑事司法改革/廃止論
- Carissa Byrne Hessick著「Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal」
- Larry Krasner著「For the People: A Story of Justice and Power」
- Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners & Beth E. Richie著「Abolition. Feminism. Now.」
- Erwin Chemerinsky著「Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights」
- Laura Coates著「Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness」
- Reece Jones著「Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States」
- Emily Bazelon著「Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration」
- Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law著「Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms」
データ・アルゴリズム
- Virginia Eubanks著「Automating Inequality: How High-tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor」
- Jer Thorp著「Living in Data: A CItizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future」
- Catherine D’Ignazio & Lauren F. Klein著「Data Feminism」
アメリカ史
- Tyler Stovall著「White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea」
- Jane Dailey著「White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History」
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz著「Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion」
- Mia Bay著「Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance」
- Ty Seidule著「Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause」
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz著「An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States」
アメリカ政治
- Pramila Jayapal著「Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change」
- Chloe Maxmin & Canyon Woodward著「Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It」
- Paul Sabin著「Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism」
- Adam Jentleson著「Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy」
- Dannagal Goldthwaite Young著「Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States」
- Tim Miller著「Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell」
- Hal Weitzman著「What’s the Matter With Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us All」
その他社会
- Maia Szalavitz著「Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction」
- Stephanie Green著「This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life」
- David Farber編著「The War on Drugs: A History」
- Jessie Singer著「There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster―Who Profits and Who Pays the Price」
- Amanda Oliver著「Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library」
- Sudhir Venkatesh著「The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them」
わたしの個人的趣味
- Juli Berwald著「Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone」
- Dennis Duncan著「Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure」
- Chip Heath & Karla Starr著「Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers」
- Patrik Svensson著「The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World」