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49 books

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

274 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski

You Get So Alone at Times

Charles Bukowski

320 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
fiction classics poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

432 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
nonfiction politics sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas

The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther

Jeffrey Haas

376 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
nonfiction history politics race dark informative fast-paced
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

102 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

183 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
nonfiction education philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney

The Groundings with My Brothers

Walter Rodney

64 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

Charles E. Cobb

328 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai

Schoolgirl

Osamu Dazai

94 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
fiction literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

110 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0girlnouns's review
nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective medium-paced