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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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
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

Deirdre Mask

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System that Failed Toronto's Queer Community by Justin Ling

Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System that Failed Toronto's Queer Community

Justin Ling

8 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics true crime challenging dark informative slow-paced
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race science challenging informative medium-paced
Black Box by Shiori Ito

Black Box

Shiori Ito

213 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Un altro giorno di morte in America. 24 ore, 10 proiettili, 10 ragazzi by Gary Younge

Un altro giorno di morte in America. 24 ore, 10 proiettili, 10 ragazzi

Gary Younge

350 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

104 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Patterns of Life)

A Brief History Series #1

Yuval Noah Harari

544 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim

Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

Suki Kim

8 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics informative reflective medium-paced
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada by Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, Allison C. Carey

Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada

Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, Allison C. Carey

316 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced