個人的超オススメ集

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)

フェミニズム

  1. Rafia Zakaria著「Against White Feminism
  2. Amia Srinivasan著「The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
  3. Saseli Bowen著「Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
  4. Kyla Schuller著「The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism
  5. Linda Babcockほか著「The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work
  6. Leslie Kern著「Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-made World

クィア&トランス

  1. Shon Faye著「The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
  2. Sarah Schulman著「Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
  3. Jack Lowery著「It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
  4. Moya Bailey著「Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
  5. Jill Gutowitz著「Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
  6. Nicole Pasulka著「How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn
  7. 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

  1. Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa著「His Name Is George Floyd: One man’s life and the struggle for racial justice
  2. Wesley Lowery著「They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
  3. Dave Zirin著「The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
  4. Vicky Osterweil著「In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
  5. Tiffanie Drayton著「Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream
  6. Edafe Okporo著「Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto
  7. Alicia Garza著「The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart」
  8. Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele著「When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir」

性暴力、#MeToo

  1. Tarana Burke著「Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
  2. Christina Lamb著「Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
  3. Rachel Vogelstein & Meighan Stone著「Awakening: # MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights
  4. Denis Mukwege著「The Power of Women: A journey of hope and healing
  5. Emily Joy Allison著「#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing

障害学、障害者運動

  1. Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner著「Being Heumann: The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
  2. Eric Garcia著「We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

刑罰・刑事司法改革/廃止論

  1. Carissa Byrne Hessick著「Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
  2. Larry Krasner著「For the People: A Story of Justice and Power
  3. Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners & Beth E. Richie著「Abolition. Feminism. Now.
  4. Erwin Chemerinsky著「Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
  5. Laura Coates著「Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness
  6. Reece Jones著「Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States
  7. Emily Bazelon著「Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration」
  8. 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

  1. Virginia Eubanks著「Automating Inequality: How High-tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
  2. Jer Thorp著「Living in Data: A CItizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future
  3. Catherine D’Ignazio & Lauren F. Klein著「Data Feminism

アメリカ史

  1. Tyler Stovall著「White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
  2. Jane Dailey著「White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History
  3. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz著「Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
  4. Mia Bay著「Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
  5. Ty Seidule著「Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
  6. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz著「An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States」

アメリカ政治

  1. Pramila Jayapal著「Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change
  2. Chloe Maxmin & Canyon Woodward著「Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It
  3. Paul Sabin著「Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism
  4. Adam Jentleson著「Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
  5. Dannagal Goldthwaite Young著「Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States
  6. Tim Miller著「Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
  7. 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

  1. Maia Szalavitz著「Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
  2. Stephanie Green著「This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
  3. David Farber編著「The War on Drugs: A History
  4. Jessie Singer著「There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster―Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
  5. Amanda Oliver著「Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
  6. 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

  1. Juli Berwald著「Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
  2. Dennis Duncan著「Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure
  3. Chip Heath & Karla Starr著「Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers
  4. Patrik Svensson著「The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World