21 social impact-obsessed people share the best book they read in 2021
Why It Matters
Learning is essential to good social impact work, and books โ whatever genre โ are one big way to expand your perspective.
Itโs that time of year again. The time of year when we ask social impact-focused people โ changemakers and members of the Future of Good team โ for the best book they read in 2021, and why.
As Future of Good Editorial Fellow Gabe Oatley says of their recommendation, โNot all โsocial impactโ books are how-to guides.โ This list proves that โ spanning poetry, essays, fiction, childrenโs literature, and, yes, some traditional non-fiction. Good luck picking just a few to read over the holidays.ย
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Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poetry edited by Nyla Matukย
โI read more poetry in 2021 than I did in any previous year, and one book I loved in particular was Resisting Canada โย a beautiful anthology that celebrates poetry as political ag
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