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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin

384 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz

The Labyrinth of Solitude

Octavio Paz

398 pages • first pub 1950 (editions)

nonfiction essays history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

284 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

544 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

The Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers

327 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history funny informative reflective fast-paced
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Ilyon Woo

416 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Horse

Geraldine Brooks

416 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

195 pages • first pub 1899 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent by Beth Kephart

Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent

Beth Kephart

189 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction historical young adult adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced
Wife Daughter Self: A Memoir in Essays by Beth Kephart

Wife Daughter Self: A Memoir in Essays

Beth Kephart

250 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography essays literary memoir
The Great Upending by Beth Kephart

The Great Upending

Beth Kephart

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction middle grade dark fast-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

448 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

300 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders

432 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary short stories challenging informative inspiring slow-paced