6 best-selling race books like The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

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The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

By: Adam Shatz

4.24

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial …

If you liked the race plot in The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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2. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

Similar categories in James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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3. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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4. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bakewell's Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

Similar categories in Vinson Cunningham's Great Expectations book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • politics
  • race
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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7. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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8. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • politics
  • africa
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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9. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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10. The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

By: Adam Shatz

4.24

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial … read more

Similar categories in Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • africa
  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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11. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • race
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12. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

Similar categories in David E. Sanger's New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Black Box: Writing the Race

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define… read more

Similar categories in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s The Black Box: Writing the Race book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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15. American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

By: Cameron McWhirter

4.29

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The epic history of America’s most controversial weaponIn the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer… read more

Similar categories in Cameron McWhirter's American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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17. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Like Love: Essays and Conversations book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Neill's Godwin book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • africa
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20. We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

By: Lyndsey Stonebridge

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life a… read more

Similar categories in Lyndsey Stonebridge's We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

Similar categories in Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us book and Adam Shatz's The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

  • africa
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

9 Best history books like The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

Transform Your Habits

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

4.03

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The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

4.24

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6 must-read contemporary books like The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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Great Expectations

Vinson Cunningham

3.35

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Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

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Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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