Plus, some of our staff share their favorite reads of the year

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Give books, support Breach.

If you’re anything like our team, you appreciate the company of a good book. You might also enjoy the careful work of finding the perfect titles for your friends and family. And if you’re giving books this holiday season and searching for inspiration, make sure to check out some of our staff’s most beloved reads of the year.

You can find those titles and more at Bookshop.org ([link removed]) , where Breach is an affiliate. Bookshop is fantastic because it allows you to buy books and support independent bookstores and organizations doing meaningful work. As an affiliate, Breach Collective receives 10% of sales made via our organization’s link. So, when you shop on the site (with the Breach logo in the upper left) you're supporting our work and independent bookstores across the country. It's a win-win!

We’d love to know - what was your favorite read of the year?

With gratitude,

The Breach Team


** STAFF PICKS
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Caitlin’s Pick

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto ([link removed]) , by Tricia Hersey

An absolutely captivating read. Tricia Hersey inspires us to reclaim our bodies and minds, and harness the power of rest as a spiritual practice of dissent in the face of capitalism and white supremacy.

Danny’s Pick

Birnam Wood ([link removed]) , by Eleanor Catton

This was a masterfully crafted and paced thriller, that deftly grapples with some of the key issues of our current conjuncture, including resource colonialism and prefigurative politics. The depiction of how capital co-opts, captures, and ultimately controls grassroots organizing was particularly incisive. On a personal note, I loved the little hat-tips the author made towards cultural attitudes in Aotearoa/New Zealand, which I think might have been missed by readers from outside the Antipodes.

Meg’s Pick

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder ([link removed]) , by Brian Doyle

Brian Doyle gives language to the deep, intangible parts of ourselves in this posthumous collection of essays. His writing manages to be both tender and sharp and his observations about the world changed my way of seeing. This is one I have returned to often and will likely be the book I gift more than any other.

Nick’s Pick

Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital ([link removed]) , by Søren Mau

Mute Compulsion is an in-depth study about how “impersonal” forms of power in our society subject life to the profit imperative. In contrast to direct violence and coercion, the imperatives that compel us to sell our labor for wages in order to avoid homelessness and/or starvation are largely invisibilized and operate as the background conditions of human existence. In essence, we are subject to a human created environment that “naturalizes” everyday forms of domination and conditions access to the means of living.
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