Book Riot's 2023 Read Harder Challenge - hosted by apers

Read a nonfiction book about BIPOC and/or queer history.
All books added
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

Emma Dabiri

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else by Kayla Kaszyca, Sarah Costello

Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else

Kayla Kaszyca, Sarah Costello

160 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America

Psyche A. Williams-Forson

10 hours, 33 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction food and drink race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

Helen Zia

493 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging emotional slow-paced
They Called Us Enemy by Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

They Called Us Enemy

Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

204 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel history memoir race young adult emotional fast-paced
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

On Juneteenth

Annette Gordon-Reed

3 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

496 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell Anderson

We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

Tre'vell Anderson

240 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ race informative reflective fast-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Samra Habib

220 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced