BOOK RIOT’S 2021 READ HARDER CHALLENGE - hosted by bookriot

Read a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color
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The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

Sonia Faleiro

314 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark medium-paced
Queer Asia by Jennifer Ung Loh, J. Daniel Luther

Queer Asia

Jennifer Ung Loh, J. Daniel Luther

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

11 hours, 8 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Luis Alberto Urrea

239 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional reflective slow-paced
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Zora Neale Hurston

3 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

Sierra Crane Murdoch

400 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative slow-paced
I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite

I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Candice Brathwaite

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir race challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators by Marilee Strong, Jeffrey L. Rinek

In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators

Marilee Strong, Jeffrey L. Rinek

300 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction crime memoir true crime dark 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

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative 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

256 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction education politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced