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Sccording to Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics,” Germaine Greer’s “The Female Eunuch,” and Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex, the institution and practice of marriage and the nuclear family is awful and should be dismantled. And since these books were written the number of two parent households has indeed plummeted. Forty percent of American children are now born to single mothers. This rate of non-marital births, combined with the nation’s high divorce rate, means that around half of all American children will spend part of their childhood in a single-parent home.
I also recommend The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone. She wrote it in the 70s, which is still modern compared to Rosa. She synthesized a lot of important philosophers into this text (Marx, Freud, Engels, etc.) and really helped revolutionize the 2nd wave feminist movement (now, you can criticize the 2nd wave all you want (and you should) but she was a Jewish Woman at the forefront with this writing). A lot of context can be brought into this if you read Engels' On the Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State, if you haven't read it yet.
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For Trans liberation I would read Leslie Feinberg's Beyond Pink and Blue.
For Gay and Lesbian liberation I'd read Harry Hay's Radically Gay
On Feminism there's a lot. So you may want to grab Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Silvia Federici's Revolution at Point Zero. Both will give you a historical and economic understanding of women's struggle.
On the African struggle I would read Thomas Sankara's The Burkina Faso Revolution.
For the Indian struggle, I suggest Anuradha Ghandy's Scripting for Change if you can find a copy somewhere.
That's it for stuff outside of the purely economic sphere.
As for fiction that intersects with communism, I suggest Iain M. Banks's Culture Series. Considering Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons. The late Banks did a tremendous job at portraying a classless, stateless, moneyless, post-scarcity society with access to cornucopia technology.
For generally entertaining Sci-Fi that'll keep you turning pages, and is also written in a non-traditional way, you have to read the Warhammer 40,000 Ciaphas Cain series. Get yourself the two omnibi Hero of the Imperium and Defender of the Imperium you'll enjoy yourself to no end. Commissar Ciaphas Cain just kicks all kinds of arse.
If you enjoy Fantasy, and want a bit with a Marxist Dragon, then I recommend Alan Dean Foster's The Spell Singer Adventures series. Specifically books 1 and 2, Spellsinger and The Hour of the Gate. It's also laugh out loud funny.
If you're more into old fashioned adventures, like Conan the Barbarian kind, then you need to read Michael Moorcocks's Elric series. You can get your toes wet with Elric: The Stealer of Souls. The stories are great fun, Elric is an absolute Byronic anti-hero, he's physically weak, he has to dope himself up, he causes the downfall of his own civilisation, and yet he's a great swordsman, poet, philosopher, and so on. Very much a nihilist, very much a tragic hero.
Finally if you want to delve into the Paranormal, and specifically into the romance category (and why not, I say?). I think you should absolutely read Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series. Starting with Halfway to the Grave. Written by a woman, with a female protagonist, all from her first person perspective. It's a vampire story, and as far as the lore is concerned follows very closely to the White Wolf idea of the Masquerade. It's nothing like Twilight, you'll enjoy it and if you're like me, get hooked on the series.
If you still have room - I'd love to see The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone - an amazing classic work of Feminist theory, and Toward a Feminist Theory of State by Catherine MacKinnon.