13 best-selling nonfiction books like Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin

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Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

By: Jetta Grace Martin

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Booklist Editors’ Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's An Autobiography book and Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

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2. Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

By: Susan Kuklin

3.80

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of t… read more

Similar categories in Susan Kuklin's Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out book and Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

  • nonfiction
"But when you hear the same stories over and over again, from people from all over the world, you start realizing that transgender is not an anomaly. It’s a part of the spectrum of people’s realities.…"

-Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

"SK: What causes a person to be transgender? MS: I think the question should be flipped around: What’s the cause for assuming that one’s gender identity has to be the one that you are born with? When …"

-Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

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3. Hurricane Song

By: Paul Volponi

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome! Miles has only lived in New Orleans w… read more

Similar categories in Paul Volponi's Hurricane Song book and Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

  • historical
  • audiobook
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4. Tevye the Milkman

By: Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Audio CD

read more

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  • audiobook

5. Not Without Laughter

By: Langston Hughes , Maya Angelou

4.19

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes prove… read more

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6. Tommy: The Gun That Changed America

By: Karen Blumenthal

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would hel… read more

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7. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

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  • social justice
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8. The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

By: Lora Senf

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces , this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Tim… read more

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  • audiobook
"Time made the missing different, but it didn't make it go away."

-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

"I'd gotten so close, so close to being the hero of my own story..."

-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

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9. 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

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell by Leonard S. Marcus

10. You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

By: Leonard S. Marcus

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, h… read more

Similar categories in Leonard S. Marcus's You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell book and Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home g…"

-Leonard S. Marcus, You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

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11. As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success

By: Kendall Coyne

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring book, US Olympian and hockey star Kendall Coyne shares the grit and determination… read more

Similar categories in Kendall Coyne's As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success book and Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Out of the Blue

By: Jason June

3.62

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must un… read more

Similar categories in Jason June's Out of the Blue book and Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

  • audiobook
"The blue knows what it's doing, if you just trust where it's taking you."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"Maybe humans aren't as magicless as I thought. There's definitely some kind of power in movies."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"Under the sea, we're all mer. We're all they/them. And we don't have this strange obsession with sex organs, since we don't have any."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"He? Elder Crab warned us about this. About humans' obsession with gender, and how labels and rules mean so much to them when it comes to the body."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

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13. The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

By: Kylie Lee Baker

3.62

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the Lond… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"Everything I saw was a story that had been stolen from me"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"We don't need to fear children's tales. They should fear us."

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"When you have enough souls in one place, suffering is inevitable"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"I wouldn't give her my story to add to her collection, because it wasn't over yet"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

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14. Fractured Tide

By: Leslie Lutz

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Lost meets Stranger Things in this eerie, immersive YA thriller, thrusting seventeen-year-old Sia i… read more

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  • audiobook
"You told me once the mind is an ocean, and most of us live on the surface. But the currents beneath, that’s what moves everything around. The currents make the boats shift position in the night, push…"

-Leslie Lutz, Fractured Tide

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15. Bump

By: Chiara Atik

3.45

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

2 men, 10 women A car mechanic on the verge of becoming a grandfather, a community of expectant … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Jovita Wore Pants by Aida Salazar

16. Jovita Wore Pants

By: Aida Salazar

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Scholastic/Levine has acquired Aida Salazar's debut picture book, Jovita Wore Pants, the story of J… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II

By: Adam Makos

4.53

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. The Boy in the Red Dress

By: Kristin Lambert

3.81

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp o… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"I'd never known freedom could feel so hollow"

-Kristin Lambert, The Boy in the Red Dress

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19. Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin,"Respect," and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

3.91

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A young Aretha Franklin captivates her community with the song “Respect” during the height of the C… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
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20. The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

By: Deborah Cadbury

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous sch… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

By: Karen Tang

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon

22. 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

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  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • 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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23. The Getaway

By: Lamar Giles

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more

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  • audiobook
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24. The Lantern's Ember

By: Colleen Houck

3.49

Format: 408 pages, ebook

Welcome to a world where nightmarish creatures reign supreme. Five hundred years ago, Jack made … read more

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"Yegor,"

-Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

"Ember,"

-Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

"All I ask,"

-Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

"In my experience,"

-Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

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25. Red Hood

By: Elana K. Arnold

3.45

Format: 368 pages, ebook

You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss

26. The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner

By: Marissa Moss

4.13

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission As a female Jew… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty." (Lise Meitner)"

-Marissa Moss, The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner

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27. Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

By: Jetta Grace Martin

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Booklist Editors’ Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World … read more

Similar categories in Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party book and Jetta Grace Martin's Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

  • american
  • history
  • race
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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28. The Truth About White Lies

By: Olivia A. Cole

3.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For fans of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, this gripping YA novel digs into the historical and pre… read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
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29. This Rebel Heart

By: Katherine Locke

3.73

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

A tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest. In the middle of … read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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30. The Wonderland Collection

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fine exclusive edition of one of literature’s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket … read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Where Wolves Don't Die

By: Anton Treuer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojib… read more

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  • audiobook

23 must-read audiobook books like Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin

Transform Your Habits

Hurricane Song

Paul Volponi

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tevye the Milkman

Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

Lora Senf

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

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Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.46

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Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

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