If you have very young activists-to-be who you’re raising up, A is for Activist​ is an absolutely beautiful board book. And it’s also available in Spanish!

If your children are a little older or early teens, Bread and Roses Too​ is wonderful.

For us adults, here are our top 3 picks for great summer reads for organizers and activists.

• This Is an Uprising: How Non-Violent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century​
• Re:Imagining Change: How to use story-based strategy to win campaigns, build movements and change the world. Watch the Author Talk​​ that got rave reviews by registrants.
• Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer​

And, if you’re a unionist and haven’t yet read Secrets of a Successful Organizer, it’s time. (Author Talk recording here​.)

These books are engaging to read, thought-provoking, and grounded in a sophisticated intersectional analysis of racial justice and other movements.

Meanwhile, below are great how-to classics on organizing – books that all organizers might find useful – and recent releases having to do more explicitly with online organizing. Got a book to recommend? Let us know. (We’ll credit you if we post it.) And please vote on books you’ve read to help fellow organizers find their way to good reads.

Missed SMT’s Author Talks for Organizers? Watch the recordings of online talks with authors of some of the most important, recently published movement-building books.

Looking for free digital campaigning training, peer communities and resources? And do you know about SMT’s Digital Campaigning Certificate Program?