Check out every book selected for our #BookoftheWeek series, all available for free to read in the Public Knowledge Library!
Activism
Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong
by Dawn B. Mabalon & Gayle Romasanta
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
by Vashti Harrison
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
by Michael Warr & Philip Cushway
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History
by Kate Schatz & Miriam Stahl
Revolting Librarians
by Celeste West & Elizabeth Katz
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America
by Peter Levine
When We Fight We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World
by Greg Jobin-Leads & AgitArts
Art
9.5 Theses on Art and Class
by Ben Davis
Art and the Global Economy
by John Zarobell
Artistic License: The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation
by Darren Hudson Hick
Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary African-American Art
by Michelle Wilkinson
Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)
by Bridget Quinn
Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol
by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice
Etel Adnan
by Etel Adnan and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection
by Logan Collections
Martin Wong: Human Instamatic
by Antonio Sergio Bessa
Museum Trip
by Barbara Lehman
Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good
by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon
Search Engine Art
by Gretchen Andrew and Irini Papadimitriou
Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here
by Rudolf Frieling, Lucía Sanromán, Dominic Willsdon
Taking Part: A Workshop Approach to Collective Creativity
by Lawrence Halprin and Jim Burns
The Train: RFK’s Last Journey
by Paul Fusco, Rein Jelle Terpstra, and Philippe Parreno
Unexpected Art: Serendipitous Installations, Site-Specific Works, and Surprising Interventions
by Jenny Moussa Spring
What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
by Tom Finkelpearl
Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts
by Aruna D’Souza
Cities
Architecture According to Pigeons
by Speck Lee Tailfeather
Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954
by Albert S. Broussard
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises
by Rebecca Solnit
City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
by Chester Hartman
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
by David Owen
Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
by Gray Brechin
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
by Rebecca Solnit
Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in Its Own Words
by Wendy MacNaughton
Monumental: Récords y Maravillas del la Arquitectura
by Sarah Tavernier
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg
San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
by Dennis Smith
The City & The City
by China Miéville
The City by the Bay: A Magical Journey Around San Francisco
by Tricia Brown & Elisa Kleven
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
by Lucy Lippard
Culture
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
by Jill Twist
A New Deal for the American People
by Roger Biles
America is Not the Heart
by Elaine Castillo
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
by Saskia Sassen
Fascination: Memoirs
by Kevin Killian
Heaven is All Goodbyes
by Tongo Eisen-Martin
Insurrecto
by Gina Apostol
Outline
by Rachel Cusk
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
by Thi Bui
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
The Power: A Novel
by Naomi Alderman
There, There
by Tommy Orange
Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing, 1977-1997
by Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian
Education
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq
by Fernando Baez
National Parks: A Kid’s Guide to America’s Parks, Monuments, and Landmarks
by Erin McHugh
Teacher as Stranger: Educational Philosophy for the Modern Age
by Maxine Greene
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures
by Carla Hayden and Peter Devereaux
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
The Constitution of California and the United States, with Related Documents
by California State Legislature
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by Michiko Kakutani
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Think in Public: A Public Books Reader
by Public Books
Unpacking My Library: Artists and Their Books
by Jo Steffens and Matthias Neumann
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Technology
A Hacker Manifesto
by McKenzie Wark
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
by John Palfrey
Digital Cash The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
by Finn Brunton
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
by Yasha Levine
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by Lawrence Lessig