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Black History
This includes biographies/memoirs by black authors and of course, any book on black history and culture.
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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

320 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

Kevin Hazzard

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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

16 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

688 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Surge by Jay Bernard

Surge

Jay Bernard

80 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ poetry challenging reflective sad slow-paced
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra

Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

Kris Manjapra

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative medium-paced
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race, & Class

Angela Y. Davis

271 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by Alex Tresniowski

The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP

Alex Tresniowski

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative slow-paced
The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s by John Potash

The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s

John Potash

284 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history music politics dark informative reflective medium-paced