Bookshelf

In each issue of Geez, we offer a list of books for further reading. Whether you’re sitting by the fireplace or on a blanket at the park, here are some books to deepen insight into the themes found in Geez.

Recent Issues

  • Issue 72
  • Issue 71
  • Issue 70
  • Issue 69

Further Reading

  • Everything Naomi Loved by Katie Yamasaki & Ian Lendler
  • Juneteenth: A Children's Story by Opal Lee
  • What Is God Like? by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew Paul Turner
  • Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
  • WIlliam Still and His Freedom Stories by Don Tate
  • Before We Eat by Pat Brisson
  • Green Green: A Community Gardening Story by Marie Lamba and Baldev Lamba
  • The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson
  • Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o and Vashti Harrison
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
  • Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
  • Can I Give You A Squish? by Emily Neilson
  • Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
  • A Wolf at the Gate by Mäki Ashe Van Steenwyk and Joel Hedstrom
  • What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
  • Children of God Storybook Bible by Desmond Tutu
  • This Is How We Do It by Matt Lamonthe
  • Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys by Richard Twiss
  • Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision by Randy S. Woodley
  • Native Americans and the Christian Right by Andrea Smith
  • Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry: Conversations on Creation, Land Justice, and Life Together by Steve Heinrichs
  • I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle
  • Dancing on Our Turtle's Back by Leanne Simpson
  • The Land We Are edited by Sophie McCall and Gabrielle Hill
  • Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Sean Coulthard
  • Unsettling Canada by Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson & Arthur Manuel
  • On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada By Michael Asch
  • The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes by Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson
  • Art of Protest by De Nichols
  • Knitter's Companion by Vicki Square
  • Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams
  • Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
  • The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour
  • Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the End of the World By Claudio Carvalhaes
  • The University and Social Justice Struggles Across the Globe Edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally
  • Hope in the Dark Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
  • Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-Ha
  • The End of Imagination by Arundhati Roy
  • Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization Edited by Kim Scipes
  • Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
  • From the Tricontinental to the Global South by Anne Garland Mahler
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
  • Trans Bodies, Trans Selves edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth
  • The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
  • Sex at the Margins Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura María Agustin
  • Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche
  • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lord
  • Revolting Prostitutes The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith
  • Sexuality and the Black Church by Kelly Brown Douglas
  • The Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton
  • Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber
  • Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
  • Holy Fools and Mad Hatters: A Handbook for a Hobbyhorse Holiness by Edward Hays
  • The St. Francis Holy Fool Prayer Book by Jon M. Sweeney
  • The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy by Harvey Cox
  • The Essential Crazy Wisdom by Wes Nisker
  • Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic
  • Ivan the Fool and Three Shorter Tales for Living Peaceably by Leo Tolstoy
  • Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art by Lewis Hyde
  • A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church by Wilda C. Gafney
  • On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson
  • I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
  • The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Jubilee by Margaret Walker
  • The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition by Lee Griffith
  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  • White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity by James Perkinson
  • Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community by Katie Geneva Cannon
  • We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
  • We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill
  • Notes of a Native Daughter by Keri Day
  • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging by Willie James Jennings
  • White Evangelical Racism by Athea Butler
  • The Religion of White Rage edited by Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray, Lori Latrice Martin
  • Dirty Prayers: Pocket Prayers to Read in the Garden by Geez
  • The Moriah Pie Cookbook by Robert Lockridge, Erin Tuttle Lockridge, Matt Latchaw, and Lyric Morris-Latchaw
  • Ida B. the Queen by Michelle Duster and Hannah Giorgis
  • Just Us: An American Conversation Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
  • We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics by Ched Myers
  • Bringing It to the Table by Wendell Berry
  • Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture by Ellen Davis
  • Farming While Black by Leah Penniman
  • Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice by Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese
  • Call Me Tree/Llámame Árbol by Maya Christina Gonzalez
  • The Tree That Survived the Winter by Mary Fahy
  • The Millennial Narrative: Sharing a Good Life with the Next Generation by Jaco J. Hamman
  • Caring For Souls in a Neoliberal Age by Bruce Rogers-Vaughn
  • Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal by Ava Chin
  • Lives of Trees: An Uncommon History by Diana Wells, Illustrated by Heather Lovett
  • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers
  • Death Is Stupid by Anastasia Higginbotham
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
  • What the Living Do: Poems by Marie Howe

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