The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
By: Kristin Henning
4.57
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant analysis of the foundation of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, l…
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1. Gideon's Trumpet
By: Anthony Lewis
3.91
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Gideon's Trumpet is the story of this extraordinary case, from the night of June 3, 1961, when the … read more
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2. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
By: None
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers … read more
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- politics
- race
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- social justice
3. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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4. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into … read more
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5. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
By: Gilbert King
3.67
Format: 348 pages, ebook
Devil in the Groveis the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Arguably the mos… read more
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6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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7. Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
By: None
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what ha… read more
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8. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
9. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
By: Laura Coates
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This instant New York Times bestseller offers “a firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that … read more
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- true crime
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
11. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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- audiobook
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
12. 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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13. 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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- audiobook
"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
14. You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
By: Meera Shah
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, au… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
15. The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality
By: Karen Fine
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A tribute to our furry, feathery, scaley, and wet family members, All Creatures Great and Small mee… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. My Side of the River
By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more
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- race
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17. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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18. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
By: Linda Villarosa
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
19. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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- audiobook
20. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- audiobook
21. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
By: Sam Quinones
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
22. 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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- race
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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
23. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
24. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
25. The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020
By: Jonathan Lemire
4.10
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
From the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early comes a probing… read more
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26. 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
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27. The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
By: Nicholas Dawidoff
4.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young strange… read more
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- audiobook
28. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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29. The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
By: Kristin Henning
4.57
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant analysis of the foundation of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, l… read more
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- history
- true crime
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
- social justice
- ethnic studies
- sociology
- audiobook
30. Promise Kept (Promises, #2)
By: K'wan
4.24
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
In this stunning sequel to Promise Broken , K'wan spins a pulse-pounding story about surviving, thr… read more
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31. Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
By: Jeff Hobbs
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace c… read more
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