Not a book, so cheating slightly, but everyone should read Professor Kimberle Crenshaw’s 1989 paper on intersectionality – “Demarginalising The Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine”, as well as the 1991 paper after this (“Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Colour”) which studied the workings of racism and sexism within social movements and how this holds back all progressive aims for the future. Intersectionality has become a buzzword but is often misunderstood and we need to reclaim the revolutionary and radical empathy at the heart of this framework through which to study how power works, who it flows to and who it tries to drown out.