14 Top race books like Finna by Nate Marshall

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Finna

By: Nate Marshall

4.49

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip…

If you liked the race plot in Finna by Nate Marshall , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Dead and the Living

By: Sharon Olds , Judith Henry

4.17

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collect… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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3. The New Testament

By: Jericho Brown

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In The New Testament, Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race, masculinity, and sexu… read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The New Testament book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • african american

4. Monster: Living Off the Big Screen

By: John Gregory Dunne

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Hollywood, screenwriters are a curse to be borne, and beating up on them is an industry blood sp… read more

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5. Felon: Poems

By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.34

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Dwayne Betts's Felon: Poems book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems

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6. Black Girl, Call Home

By: Jasmine Mans

4.44

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, a… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Mans's Black Girl, Call Home book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

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7. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's The Tradition book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • social justice
  • african american
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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8. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

Similar categories in Fatimah Asghar's If They Come for Us book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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9. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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10. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

Similar categories in Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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11. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Homie book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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12. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's The Trees Witness Everything book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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13. Magical Negro

By: Morgan Parker

4.31

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnog… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's Magical Negro book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
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14. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

Similar categories in Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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16. Citizen Illegal

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of C… read more

Similar categories in José Olivarez's Citizen Illegal book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."

-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

"my enemies aren’t ugly-faced crooks, they don’t laugh while innocent die.​ they point & say how tragic then go home to pet their cute dogs."

-José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

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17. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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18. Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

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19. Finna

By: Nate Marshall

4.49

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more

Similar categories in Nate Marshall's Finna book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • poetry
  • race
  • memoir
  • poetry plays
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
  • audiobook
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20. Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

By: Sherman Kennon

4.35

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Whisk Of Dust is a book of poetry. It aims to uplift and inspire, as it speaks of love, peace, and … read more

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"Each moment embrace or more so cherish. As gentle the wind blows,"

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Still I chase the wind and float as a gentle breeze up among the stars then descending as a bird down amidst the trees."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

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21. Two-Step Devil

By: Jamie Quatro

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times Notable "writer of great originality" comes a bold novel about love, faith an… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil book and Nate Marshall's Finna

  • adult

11 must-read adult books like Finna by Nate Marshall

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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13 Top adult books like If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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