Lisa Reneé Pitts

51 books

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

Harriet Ann Jacobs

371 pages • first pub 1861 (editions)

nonfiction classics memoir race dark emotional sad medium-paced
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculée Ilibagiza

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Immaculée Ilibagiza

214 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history memoir inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland, Charisse Jones

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

Misty Copeland, Charisse Jones

288 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

Tressie McMillan Cottom

241 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction education politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Multiplication Is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People\'s Children by Lisa Delpit

Multiplication Is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People\'s Children

Lisa Delpit

256 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction education race reflective medium-paced
Nappily Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas

Nappily Ever After

Nappily #1

Trisha R. Thomas

320 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction romance emotional medium-paced
None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators by Anna Simonton, Shani Robinson

None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators

Anna Simonton, Shani Robinson

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction education challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit

Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Lisa Delpit

256 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction education informative reflective slow-paced
Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together by Neil Pasricha

Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together

Neil Pasricha

421 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction self help hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Perish by LaToya Watkins

Perish

LaToya Watkins

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced