Lowest White Boy (In Place)
By: Greg Bottoms
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Joh…
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1. Dancing in the Dark
By: Caryl Phillips
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S… read more
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- race
2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- nonfiction
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
3. Running Out of Time
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
3.99
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diphtheria strikes t… read more
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4. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- nonfiction
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
7. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
8. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
9. The Tortilla Curtain
By: T. Coraghessan Boyle
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra … read more
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10. The Library at Mount Char
By: Scott Hawkins
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart sl… read more
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11. Caucasia
By: Danzy Senna
3.37
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
In Caucasia--Danzy Senna's extraordinary debut novel and national bestseller--Birdie and Cole are t… read more
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12. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- nonfiction
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
13. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
14. The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)
By: Nora Sakavic
4.59
Format: None pages, None
My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas. It is a truth Jean h… read more
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"What you hold onto is less important than the act of holding on itself. It’s so easy to get lost in ourselves and this world. Sometimes you need to find your way back one tiny miracle at a time."-Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)
"Jean held onto his control with everything he had left after such a nightmarish day, but he could feel his grip slipping. Endure, he warned himself, and on its tail-end came a desperate How much must…"-Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court (All For the Game, #4)
15. Passing
By: Nella Larsen
3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more
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- race
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."-Nella Larsen, Passing
"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
16. The Reformatory
By: Tananarive Due
4.47
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more
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17. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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- race
"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
18. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
By: Daniel Quinn
4.01
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search f… read more
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"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
20. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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- race
"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
21. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
22. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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23. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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- race
"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
24. Chouette
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is deligh… read more
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"We're the oldest love triangle in the world: mother, father, child."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"Maybe I resent you a little. Once this first small thought of maybe-resentment creeps in, it acts like a fast poison."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"Every day you wrench me toward a different world altogether: an older world, filled with wild, perfect creatures, singing in the dark."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
"I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible."-Claire Oshetsky, Chouette
25. Lowest White Boy (In Place)
By: Greg Bottoms
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Joh… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
26. So You Want to Talk About Race
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.49
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
27. Harry Sylvester Bird
By: Chinelo Okparanta
3.24
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant,… read more
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- race
28. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
By: Emily Bernard
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrat… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"...in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?"-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
29. Notes from the Field
By: Anna Deavere Smith
4.25
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From the Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated playwright, actress, and activist: shining a light on the sch… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
30. The River Capture
By: Mary Costello
3.05
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
SHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE IRISH TIMES and… read more
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31. The Unfortunates
By: J.K. Chukwu
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhau… read more
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