Social History
If you want to broaden your horizons and move out of your comfort zone these three books deserve your time. The first has to be in my top 5 favorite books of all time.

Seize the Time by Bobby Seale details the Black Panther movement from one of the founders of that movement in a raw, unbeatable manner. You feel like you were there, it challenges misconceptions and is inspiring.

Autobiography of Malcolm X is a revelation as to how someones beliefs can develop and change over time, quite moving and in a way still relevant.

Another Country by James Baldwin explores sexuality, race and gender, thought provoking, poignant and definitely worth reading at least once.

Can anyone recommend any fiction or non fiction books that are the British or European equivalent?
( sutit only the crumbliest, flakiest posts, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 1:37, 6 replies)

Yeah.
Mein Kampf.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 10 Jan 2012, 8:11, closed)

E.P Thompson. "The Making Of The English Working Class."
(caescarna Hell's Roomba, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 8:33, closed)

thanks

( sutit only the crumbliest, flakiest posts, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:02, closed)

James Baldwin is a cracking writer....
....but I'm not sure how Another Country would "broaden your horizons and move [you] out of your comfort zone"
[edit] unless you're a white homophobic racist, I guess.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 9:19, closed)

It's not what your asking for
But I think you'd really like Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet. It's the novelist's autobiographical account of how he spent the last years of his life getting involved with the Blank Panthers and then joining the Fedayeen to fight for Palestinian liberation. It's awesome.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 12:52, closed)

thanks
"Blank" Panthers made me laugh. I guess it is a typo. I will look him up.
( sutit only the crumbliest, flakiest posts, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:05, closed)