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The Conscious Bookshelf

Books selected by our editors, readers and social networks that will enrich your understanding of the world and help you see life through a new lens. Please note we do not receive any compensation for the books that we feature.

  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

    This book shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap—a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives. From government policy and medical research to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women. 

    Via Diversity UK

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  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

    The Sixth Extinction is an exploration of the world’s prior mass extinctions, and the catalysts behind each of them. It also describes some of the more recent extinctions, and how human activity was a big factor in these environmental events. Using current and historic examples of animal species on the decline and those that are extinct, Elizabeth Kolbert shows how humans could be the catalyst for the sixth extinction.

    Via Goodreads

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  • Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

    Alok Vaid-Menon explores the gender preconceptions and expectations that we’re surrounded by, and how these are restricting, limiting, and harmful. Not everyone can or wants to conform to the expected binary, and like many others, Vaid-Menon suffered years of self-hatred and shame trying not to. Consequently, it took years for them to come to a place of peace and acceptance with themselves. This small book asks us to really consider our assumptions about gender, and open ourselves to a more expansive definition of this aspect of being human. 

    Via Goodreads

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  • Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

    This novel follows the lives of five young adults as they grapple with life after ‘Indian School’ in the 1960s. From their prison-like residential school on Vancouver Island, they are turfed onto the streets of Vancouver with no support, money, family connections or life skills. We join them as they try to deal with years of neglect and trauma in a world that has no place for them, never mind any understanding. As a daughter and granddaughter of people who went through the residential school system, Michelle Good tells this story with compassion and insight.

    Via Whistler Writers Society

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