All I do is read these days. So here are books I’ve decided I can’t live without:

How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
This woman's thesis is that the pro life movement does NOT want fewer abortions, were that so they would back comprehensive sex education and easy access to birth control, including Plan B. Instead they want to control women's sexuality, thus creating a more patriarchal world. She is very clear and her arguments are good, but it's F-ing depressing to know this

Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine
This woman believes kids and teenagers are sexual beings and have a right to explore their bodies, have pleasure and have information that allows them to protect themselves. I agree completely, and did before i read this book, but it's nice to have some research that backs up my position and some resources to follow up on as my children friends become adolecents whose parents might be more than a little wary of giving a sex talk.

The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
Sherri like to write her science fiction without any confusion about her political and moral stance. She outright says that the right wing conservative nuts worship the devil and that if we're not carful god's gonna come kick some ass. She also wrote The Family Tree in which the tree's are like "Fuck You Suburbia, we're takin' over" or The Gate to Women's Country were we work on breeding out the assholes. Sherri is definatly in my top 5 favorite authors.

Popco by Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett is vegan and this book is well written and full of her anti corporate propaganda rants. It's also got stuff about math, cryptology, homeopathy and how to take over the world. I didn’t want it to end.

The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, and The Tiger in the Well all by Philip Pullman.
These books are about a young woman in the late 1800s who doesn’t conform to society's expectations, she's a feminist, a financial consultant with her own firm and she has a child out of wedlock!! I love her because she'd brave and strong and shoots the bad guys. She also solves mysteries, questions societies morals, and is totally amazing.

The Sundering by Jaqueline Carey
These are two books, Banewreaker and Godslayer, which are like Lord of the Rings without all the black and white, good vs. evil propaganda. Carey is all about the shades of grey and has the ability to write some "bad guys" who we don't hate and some "good guys" that we might.