Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By: Winfred Rembert
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movem…
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1. Werewolves in Their Youth
By: Michael Chabon
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. C… read more
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"As I worked to rebuild the ghost town I had made, I felt keenly that my failure to help Timothy was really only the latest chapter in a lifelong history of inadequacy and powerlessness."-Michael Chabon, Werewolves in Their Youth
"And the next moment the fierce wind comes screaming, whirling the needle-pointed dust, stifling all hope. And you know then that what has not happened will never happen. That hope is an end within it…"-Michael Chabon, Werewolves in Their Youth
"But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination…"-Michael Chabon, Werewolves in Their Youth
"I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would come into the office and see us sitting there, two matching rejects in matchi…"-Michael Chabon, Werewolves in Their Youth
2. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me
By: Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
"A gripping tale of secrets and self-discovery." --People The Foundlingtells the incredible and ins… read more
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3. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
4. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
5. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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6. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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7. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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8. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By: Nicole Eustace
3.61
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the dist… read more
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9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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10. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
11. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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12. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
13. 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
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14. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- memoir
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- african american
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"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
15. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By: Andrea Elliott
4.72
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more
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".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
16. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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17. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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18. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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19. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
By: Jefferson R. Cowie
4.50
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more
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"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
20. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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21. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
22. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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23. Up Home: One Girl's Journey
By: Ruth J. Simmons
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the firs… read more
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"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas."-Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey
24. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By: Winfred Rembert
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movem… read more
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25. Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
By: Jennet Conant
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight t… read more
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26. Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
By: Lizzie Stark
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An unconventional history of the world’s largest cellular workhorse, from chickens to penguins, fro… read more
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27. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
By: Tiya Miles
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more
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28. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
By: Dean Jobb
4.02
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more
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29. Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
By: Scott Shane
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who b… read more
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30. Side Notes from the Archivist
By: Anastacia-Reneé
4.25
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi… read more
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31. The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
By: Rosie Schaap
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist, and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun:… read more
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