This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
By: Don Lemon
4.24
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
In an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, Lemon shows us all how deep our problems lie, and wha…
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1. Flight
By: Sherman Alexie
3.89
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Sherman Alexie is one of our most gifted and accomplished storytellers and a treasured writer of hu… read more
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- audiobook
"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame"-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"I measure men by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, and I find all of them are assholes."-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents."-Sherman Alexie, Flight
2. We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga
By: David Ritz , Paul Shaffer
3.54
Format: 256 pages,
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, c… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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4. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By: Carol Anderson
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more
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5. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker
By: Barry Sonnenfeld
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Film and television director Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir traces his idiosync… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By: Anthea Butler
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more
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- race
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7. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
By: Michael Lewis
4.09
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- audiobook
9. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
By: Whoopi Goldberg
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
10. Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
By: Wajahat Ali
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"The Whiteness doesn't want us to be American. But since it can't remove all of us, it will always find ways to dominate the rest of us and make our lives uncomfortable."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"Nearly 30 percent of the enslaved were originally Muslim, which means Muslims' stories, labor, tears, pain, and dreams have fertilized this country's soil from the beginning."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"Like many great works of theater, I believe America is simultaneously a riotous comedy and a heartbreaking tragedy. Our hamartia, our fatal flaw, is racism. It haunts us every day."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"But I already knew that, in America, if you aren't writing your story, your story will always be written for you. If you aren't telling your story, your story will always be told to you."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
11. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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- history
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- autobiography
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- audiobook
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
12. Beautiful Things: A Memoir
By: Hunter Biden
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Bide… read more
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"I felt the astonishing luck of a man who'd agreed to meet a woman for coffee when it was all but impossible for him to leave a hotel room without a crack pipe in his hand, and who then fell in love a…"-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir
"Dad swiftly learned that if he didn't put an opponent's character front and center, he often could find a way to change minds or work out a compromise. No one walks out of a meeting when you say, "I …"-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir
13. 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
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- social justice
- 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
14. The Beauty of Living Twice
By: Sharon Stone
3.70
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost … read more
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- biography memoir
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"No one can ever make your dream perfect but you."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"If only we could know our parents when we are children."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
"Thus, the benefit of travel and open-mindedness: one can find one's own tribe."-Sharon Stone, The Beauty of Living Twice
15. The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
By: Noam Chomsky
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American colla… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
By: Ayaz Virji
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcom… read more
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17. Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age
By: Sanjay Gupta
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind fr… read more
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- audiobook
"For example, what should you do when the person seems stuck on repeating a word, activity, or sentence over and over again? Repetition is common in the disease's later stages. The person is searching…"-Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age
18. On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down
By: James Fell
4.32
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The hilarious, irreverent guide to world history you never knew you needed, featuring 366 profanity… read more
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19. Two Old Broads: Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn't Know You Needed to Know
By: M.E. Hecht
3.17
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Written by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi … read more
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- memoir
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20. Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
By: Michael Eric Dyson
4.18
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to… read more
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"If justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public, then patience is what mercy sounds like out loud, and forgiveness is the accent with which grace speaks."-Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
"...in a true democracy, things are often messy, ...you often don't get what you want or deserve immediately, and... you have to constantly engage, protest, resist, and negotiate."-Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
"...we must reckon with the plague of police brutality and how it has ravaged Black communities for three centuries. The cops remain in large part violent enforcers of white supremacy."-Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
"...one need not be religious at all to believe that we should be willing to give what we seek: charitable interpretations of behavior and a willingness to offer just appraisals of conduct with an eye…"-Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
21. This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
By: Don Lemon
4.24
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
In an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, Lemon shows us all how deep our problems lie, and wha… read more
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- nonfiction
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