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36 books

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

305 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
nonfiction memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

152 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

James H. Cone

202 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
nonfiction history race religion emotional informative fast-paced
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

A Woman Is No Man

Etaf Rum

337 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Amy Mandelker

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy, Amy Mandelker

803 pages • first pub 1877 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
fiction classics literary romance challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

304 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

Lynda Blackmon Lowery

128 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
nonfiction history memoir middle grade informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Michael Eric Dyson

228 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

528 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
nonfiction autobiography history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

Jemar Tisby

253 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0hrector's review
nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced