Ranked: What It Means to be an Activist

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What It Means to be an Activist

This is a list about activism.  The life and times of the activists.  Their influence on the causes they take up.  The sacrifices they make.  

General

1. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
2. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
3. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Animal Rights

1. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba

Ecological Sustainability

1. The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston

Economics

1. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
2. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
3. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Politics

1. Amerikaganistan, Dystopia Inc.: What Every Movement Activist Should Know by Dale Johnson

Race/Ethnicity

1. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter

Sovereignty 

1. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
2. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
3. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
4. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
5. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
6. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
7. Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
8. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
9. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
10. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
11. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville

Sovereignty / Fiction

1. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
2. A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley

Women's / Gender Rights 

1. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
2. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
3. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
4. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
5. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane

Women's Gender Rights / Fiction

• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin