50 free books from historically marginalized voices every month.
About:
In the middle of 2020 we witnessed the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. As two people with inherent white privilege, we will never understand what Black people or any traditionally marginalized group endures every day in America, but we decided to use our privilege by offering books that have helped us see beyond ourselves.
Each month, we giveaway at least 50 books from people of color, queer authors, authors with disabilities and voices that have historically been marginalized in America. We are now purchasing all our books from our friends at A Good Used Book, an independent bookstore in Los Angeles.
We know that books alone will not solve our problems, but we believe education breeds empathy, and empathy breeds action.
About Stephen
Stephen is a musician, marketer, and educator who has worked for companies like Airbnb, Red Bull, and WeTransfer. He co-authored “Music Marketing for Consumer Brands,” an MBA course for Berklee College of Music and he's currently working on a new album, which will come out whenever it's finally ready.
Favorite Books:
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So, The Audition by Katie Kitamura, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion, Pure Colour by Sheila Heti, Small Rain by Garth Greenwell, Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, and Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour.
About Tess
Tess is a writer with former lives in interior design and music business. Her fiction and essays are featured or forthcoming in Five Points, Santa Monica Review, Barnstorm Journal, WePresent, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Chapman University, where she was an English Graduate Fellow, and a BA from Emerson College. Follow her writing updates via Instagram and her occasional newsletter.
Favorite Books:
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, and the poetry of Octavio Paz.
Our Book BFFs: A Good Used Book
Chris and Jenny started A Good Used Book in 2017, popping up in and around Los Angeles area for several years. They opened their official storefront at the end of 2023 in Historic Filipinotown and are hard at work expanding their hours, services and event offerings to the community.
Visit them online, or in-person at 307 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90026.
Photographer: Calvin Nguyen for Good Fight