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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch

355 pages • paperback • 1998

5.0joehardy's review
nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • paperback • 1993

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fiction classics dystopian literary speculative fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

185 pages • hardcover • 2020

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nonfiction memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson

White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

Lauren Michele Jackson

184 pages • hardcover • 2019

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nonfiction essays race sociology challenging informative fast-paced
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener

288 pages • hardcover • 2020

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nonfiction memoir technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew

352 pages • hardcover • 2018

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nonfiction history politics race challenging informative slow-paced
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin

269 pages • hardcover • 2018

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nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception by Matt Hart

Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception

Matt Hart

432 pages • hardcover • 2020

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nonfiction informative reflective fast-paced
Guapa by Saleem Haddad

Guapa

Saleem Haddad

368 pages • paperback • 2016

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fiction lgbtqia+ literary romance challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

320 pages • hardcover • 2020

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nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced