15 must-read nonfiction books like The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth by Wade Hudson

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The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

By: Wade Hudson

4.49

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

This short story collection is a call-to-action that invites all families to be anti-racist and adv…

"...the most powerful person in any room is the one with the clearest thoughts and the fewest words."

-Wade Hudson, The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

"...the most powerful person in any room is the one with the clearest thoughts and the fewest words."

-Wade Hudson, The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

"...the most powerful person in any room is the one with the clearest thoughts and the fewest words."

-Wade Hudson, The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

"...the most powerful person in any room is the one with the clearest thoughts and the fewest words."

-Wade Hudson, The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth by Wade Hudson , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By: Shaun Usher

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Letters of Noteis a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining, ins… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Usher's Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • nonfiction
  • essays

2. Ninth Ward

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival… read more

Similar categories in Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ninth Ward book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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3. Only This Beautiful Moment

By: Abdi Nazemian

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three genera… read more

Similar categories in Abdi Nazemian's Only This Beautiful Moment book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • audiobook
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4. Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

By: Kwame Alexander

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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5. Efrén Divided

By: Ernesto Cisneros

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Pura Belpré Award! “We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel … read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Cisneros's Efrén Divided book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • social justice
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
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6. For Every One

By: Jason Reynolds

4.30

Format: 102 pages, Hardcover

Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's For Every One book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
"Dreams don't have timelines, deadlines, and aren't always in straight lines."

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"When it comes to my dream, the way I like to describe it is that it's a rabid beast that found me when I was young"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"The truth is, finding that beast may or may not happen. But the treasures I've discovered under the heavy stones and behind the massive trees and deep in the dark caves have created the hunter and th…"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

"One thing I am now certain of is that this road less traveled has in fact been traveled by far more suckers than you think. All of us out here, slumped over wearing weird fake broken smiles, trying t…"

-Jason Reynolds, For Every One

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7. Run: Book One

By: John Lewis

4.31

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award–winning team behind March comes the f… read more

Similar categories in John Lewis's Run: Book One book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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8. There Was a Party for Langston

By: Jason Reynolds

4.48

Format: 56 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's There Was a Party for Langston book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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9. Abuela, Don't Forget Me

By: Rex Ogle

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In his memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this compa… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Abuela, Don't Forget Me book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
"These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

"She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

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10. Ain't Burned All the Bright

By: Jason Reynolds

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Ain't Burned All the Bright book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • social justice
"What is life in a house underwater?"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

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11. Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A collection of intersecting stories set at a powwow that bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the st… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Leitich Smith's Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • short stories
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
"Returning the phone, she said, “You’re an artist."

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

"Four kids in T-shirts and jeans jam on a powwow stage. They’re grinning, bouncing, fully engaged with their music, each other, and the relaxed crowd. I’m splitting fry bread with a cousin as we cheer…"

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

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12. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

By: Emmanuel Acho

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide… read more

Similar categories in Emmanuel Acho's Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"It's not white people's job to police the feelings of black people, but as fellow human beings, please rant black people the right to the full gamut of emotions regarding their wounds."

-Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

"White privilege is about the word white, not rich. It's having advantage built into your life. It's not saying your life hasn't been hard; it's saying your skin color hasn't contributed to the diffic…"

-Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

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13. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

Similar categories in Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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14. Class Act (New Kid, #2)

By: Jerry Craft

4.28

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In this companion book to New Kid this time it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in a s… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Craft's Class Act (New Kid, #2) book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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15. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

Similar categories in Byron Graves's Rez Ball book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • audiobook
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16. This Is Your Time

By: Ruby Bridges

4.51

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Ti… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Bridges's This Is Your Time book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"I have been saying for many years how I believe racism is a grown-up disease, and we "adults" must stop using you, our kids, to spread it. None of you is born into the world racist. It is we adults w…"

-Ruby Bridges, This Is Your Time

"When I arrived at this all-white school that first day, all the white parents rushed in and pulled out their kids. They didn't want their children going to school with me. But why? I didn't understan…"

-Ruby Bridges, This Is Your Time

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17. This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

By: Tiffany Jewell

4.40

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Who are you? What is your identity? What is racism? How do you choose your own path? How do you sta… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Jewell's This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • race
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
"Your privilege is something you don't often think about. It's often invisible to you until you take a moment to gain some insight and awareness into your whole self."

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Using the term Asian to describe all folx from Asian countries and ancestry does not acknowledge the vast and varied histories, cultures, and experiences of everyone."

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Someone described racism to me as the smog we breathe. It is all around us; racism is everywhere. Our lives are polluted by racism and it harms us all. The more we are aware of this smog of racism, t…"

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

"Folx will be committed to trying to fit you into the box. They will tell you you're too young to make a difference, that you should focus on getting good grades and going to college. They may also te…"

-Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

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18. All the Fighting Parts

By: Hannah V. Sawyerr

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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19. The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

By: Frederick Joseph

4.47

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the perspective of the friend everyone should have, Frederick Joseph offers an essential read … read more

Similar categories in Frederick Joseph's The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"A large part of white privilege is that it steers white people toward their cultural comfort zones."

-Frederick Joseph, The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

"We need to uplift the importance of Black lives because so many people act as if those lives don't count."

-Frederick Joseph, The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

"All Lives Matter is directly related to white people not wanting to see color and not wanting to make things about race."

-Frederick Joseph, The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

"No one would be comfortable being racist around someone who truly stands against racism, because they would know there'd be consequences."

-Frederick Joseph, The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

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20. Finding Tamika

By: Erika Alexander

3.83

Format: 6 pages, Audiobook

Black girls and women disappear every day, but not without a trace. Join actress and activist Erika… read more

Similar categories in Erika Alexander's Finding Tamika book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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21. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • audiobook
Cover of Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances by Kwame Alexander

22. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

By: Kwame Alexander

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poet… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in"

-Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

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23. Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

By: Kekla Magoon

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as milit… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"The FBI nicknamed the program COINTELPRO, as a shorthand for "counterintelligence program." COINTELPRO originated in the 1950s, to prevent socialist movements from developing in the United States, an…"

-Kekla Magoon, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

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24. 500 Words or Less

By: Juleah del Rosario

3.48

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Nic Chen refuses to spend her senior year branded as the girl who cheated on her charismatic and lo… read more

Similar categories in Juleah del Rosario's 500 Words or Less book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • audiobook
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25. The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

By: Wade Hudson

4.49

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

This short story collection is a call-to-action that invites all families to be anti-racist and adv… read more

Similar categories in Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • poetry
  • race
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"...the most powerful person in any room is the one with the clearest thoughts and the fewest words."

-Wade Hudson, The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

"Racism is not just hatred. Racism is a system. A system that dehumanizes humans in order to keep them down and, most often, to make money off of them. -- Adam Gidwitz, The Inheritance"

-Wade Hudson, The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

Cover of Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

26. Four Eids and a Funeral

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

3.71

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Four Eids and a Funeral book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • audiobook
Cover of We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963 by Shelia P. Moses

27. We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963

By: Shelia P. Moses

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The powerful story of an eleven-year-old Black boy determined to stand up for his rights, who's pul… read more

Similar categories in Shelia P. Moses's We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963 book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
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28. The Untold Story of Larry Itliong: Labor Rights Hero (First But Forgotten)

By: Cristina Oxtra

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

You may have read about Cesar Chavez's leadership in organizing the well-known Delano Grape Strike … read more

Similar categories in Cristina Oxtra's The Untold Story of Larry Itliong: Labor Rights Hero (First But Forgotten) book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • social justice
Cover of The Reckoning of Roku (Chronicles of the Avatar, #5) by Randy Ribay

29. The Reckoning of Roku (Chronicles of the Avatar, #5)

By: Randy Ribay

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist Randy Ribay comes a gripping new chapter—starring Avatar Roku—in … read more

Similar categories in Randy Ribay's The Reckoning of Roku (Chronicles of the Avatar, #5) book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • audiobook
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30. True True

By: Don P. Hooper

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful and fast-paced YA contemporary debut, a Black teen from Brooklyn struggles to fit … read more

Similar categories in Don P. Hooper's True True book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • race
  • audiobook
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31. Superpowered: Transform Anxiety into Courage, Confidence, and Resilience

By: Renee Jain

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first of its kind! This how-to book from two psychology experts--packed with fun graphics and q… read more

Similar categories in Renee Jain's Superpowered: Transform Anxiety into Courage, Confidence, and Resilience book and Wade Hudson's The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  • nonfiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook

22 Best audiobook books like The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth by Wade Hudson

Transform Your Habits

Only This Beautiful Moment

Abdi Nazemian

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Kwame Alexander

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Efrén Divided

Ernesto Cisneros

4.29

Transform Your Habits

For Every One

Jason Reynolds

4.30

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Transform Your Habits

Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Twelfth Knight

Alexene Farol Follmuth

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Thirsty

Jas Hammonds

4.16

Transform Your Habits

On the Bright Side

Anna Sortino

4.20

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