Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
By: Baynard Woods
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage …
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1. The Street
By: Ann Petry
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Streettells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and … read more
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- race
2. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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3. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
4. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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- audiobook
- race
- contemporary
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
5. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
6. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia
By: Samantha Leach
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
8. 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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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
9. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
10. The Trayvon Generation
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.36
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
11. In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Courageous and compelling…essential and critically important.” —Bryan Stevenson An award-winnin… read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. The Stolen Child
By: Ann Hood
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more
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- audiobook
13. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
By: Camonghne Felix
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
14. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!
15. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
By: Laura Meckler
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In th… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- audiobook
16. Why Didn't You Tell Me?
By: Carmen Rita Wong
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her ident… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
18. Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Art unmakes the world made by work."-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
19. Women of the Post
By: Joshunda Sanders
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An emotional story, based on true events, about the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps w… read more
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- audiobook
"Support units are the spine of the war effort. Because we do a job that is invisible and does not take place on the battlefield does not mean what we do isn't difficult or dangerous."-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"It is the fight of his life - of our lives - to defend our country and maybe it will show white people that we can also belong to and defend this place. We built it too, after all. It is as much our …"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"We all found ways to mirror her contributions to America, even when our country never gave us back all that we gave it. It's a shame that it takes going to other places to help us see how to transfor…"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"The most important thing is those letters... They keep soldiers connected to the most significant people in their lives. Their families, their children, their wives and mothers. That keeps them motiv…"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
20. The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
By: Oksana Masters
4.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Par… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
By: Baynard Woods
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage … read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- contemporary
- society
- audiobook
