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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Essentials of Tibetan Buddhism by Jampa Thaye

The Essentials of Tibetan Buddhism

Jampa Thaye

138 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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nonfiction religion
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

443 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Virginia Woolf: The Complete Collection by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf: The Complete Collection

Virginia Woolf

16052 pages • first pub 1994 (editions) user-added

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fiction classics feminism challenging reflective slow-paced
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Patricia Hill Collins

357 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

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nonfiction feminism race sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

577 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

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nonfiction classics literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings #0-3

J.R.R. Tolkien

1728 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

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fiction classics fantasy adventurous emotional hopeful slow-paced
The Crunk Feminist Collection by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn

The Crunk Feminist Collection

Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn

322 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

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nonfiction essays feminism race reflective slow-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced