Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods
By: Otegha Uwagba
4.58
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, w…
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1. Maggot Moon
By: Sally Gardner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers thr… read more
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"It's the fricking reality that destroys plans."-Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon
"¿Por qué el ser humano es tan cruel,joder? ¿Por qué?"-Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon
"You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars."-Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon
"I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound."-Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon
2. The Arrangements
By: None
4.32
Format: 285 pages, ebook
In an election season widely seen as stranger than fiction, we decided to turn to fiction to see ho… read more
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- politics
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3. The Lost Words
By: Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic an… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: None
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministscomes a powerful new state… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
By: Valeria Luiselli
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American chil… read more
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6. Alice's Adventures Under Ground
By: Lewis Carroll
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures Underground for the young Alice Liddell, from which arose th… read more
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7. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
By: Sally Hayden
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more
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- social justice
8. Fix the System, Not the Women
By: Laura Bates
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more
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- politics
- adult
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- audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women
9. Moi les hommes, je les déteste
By: Pauline Harmange
3.82
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more
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"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste
"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste
10. It's Not About the Burqa
By: Mariam Khan
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mari… read more
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- social justice
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- audiobook
"I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know."-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"In early Islam in seventh century Arabia, Muslim women were feisty and unafraid to fight for their rights. With the passing of the centuries, their dramatic progress stagnated and stalled, causing th…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"Dissecting the rishta sites quickly becomes me and Fiz's favorite pastime. 'Look at this one, Fiz, look at this one. "i am looking for simple, obedient girl." Vom!' 'Why doesn't he just advertise for…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"Revolutions 'go too far': if your community is ready for you, then you are too late. You must challenge your community. You must throw down the gauntlet of freedom to your community and dare it to ac…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
11. Notes on Grief
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.22
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
12. New Animal
By: Ella Baxter
3.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
It's not easy getting close to people. Amelia's meeting a lot of men but once she gets the sex she … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
"But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all."-Ella Baxter, New Animal
13. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
'I'm hungry to go on this journey. Sofie is smashing and remoulding her readers understanding of se… read more
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14. The Breakthrough
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.59
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of lif… read more
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"These involve programming it with a series of questions. The answers are then fed back into the computer, and are themselves used to modify the questions that follow."-Daphne du Maurier, The Breakthrough
15. She Must Be Mad
By: Charly Cox
3.58
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
‘Poetry meets mental health in Charly Cox’s brave and beautiful She Must Be Mad.’ Stylist Magazine … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"You are not a girl nor a woman, you are an unwanted potato in a packet, left to half-freeze to close to the back of the fridge."-Charly Cox, She Must Be Mad
16. Unlearn Patriarchy
By: Lisa Jaspers
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Obwohl wir inzwischen im 21. Jahrhundert leben, herrscht noch immer das Patriarchat. Warum zur Höll… read more
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17. Deliver Me
By: Elle Nash
3.95
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more
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"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."-Elle Nash, Deliver Me
18. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
By: Emma Dabiri
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- anti racist
- audiobook
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
19. That Peckham Boy
By: Kenny Imafidon
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Poverty Safari and Skint Estate , That Peckham Boy is a reallife manifesto calling… read more
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20. The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)
By: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representati… read more
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"The affordances of the first person perspective for audience engagement also create a significant challenge in that the Dark Other is always focalized through a White protagonist's eyes."-Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)
"Words matter, and the fantastic has multiple resonant connotations. The fantastic captures the wonder of stepping into a world-that-never-was, and immersing yourself in it in a way that speculative f…"-Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)
"Maybe it’s not that kids and teens of color and other marginalized and minoritized young people don’t like to read. Maybe the real issue is that many adults haven’t thought very much about the radica…"-Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)
"The trouble with colorblind ideologies in text and culture is that by not noticing race, writers and other creatives do the work of encoding it as taboo. While silence and evasion around race in dyst…"-Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)
21. Albatross
By: Terry Fallis
3.70
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis comes a funny and smart new… read more
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22. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker
By: Eve Smith
3.66
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more
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23. Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods
By: Otegha Uwagba
4.58
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, w… read more
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- adult
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24. Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows
By: Christine Burns
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declare… read more
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"Being trans is not a mental health condition."-Christine Burns, Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows
25. Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action
By: Sophie Williams
4.47
Format: 176 pages, ebook
‘Gives you the information you need to begin, or continue, your understanding of what it means to b… read more
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26. Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
By: Gary Younge
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“Younge’s writing is chilling, urgent and profound.” —The Root “An outstanding journalist and ch… read more
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27. All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us
By: Kieran Yates
4.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of… read more
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- audiobook
28. Gold Rush
By: Olivia Petter
3.61
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they e… read more
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29. The Unwilding
By: Marina Kemp
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning new novel of power, desire and the secrets all families carry, from the acclaimed author… read more
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30. The Orange Room: A deeply relatable story of self-discovery and self-worth
By: Rosie Price
4.15
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
Can we live fully when we are too afraid to be seen? This is the moving story of a young woman who … read more
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31. Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure
By: Seema Yasmin
4.28
Format: 1 pages, Audio CD
A collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, dive… read more
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