12 best-selling history books like Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale

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Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

By: Bobby Seale

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party…

If you liked the history plot in Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

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2. The White Album

By: Joan Didion

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"

-Joan Didion, The White Album

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3. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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4. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

By: Holly Madison

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner describes how her years inside the Playboy Mansion went from a f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first."

-Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

"But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married."

-Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

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5. Soul on Ice

By: Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way the United States loo… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
"Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle her…"

-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice

"The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder, really, unless the victim is white. And it was only when the newspapers and magazines started carrying pictures and s…"

-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice

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6. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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7. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more

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  • social justice
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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  • race
  • african american
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9. The Round House

By: Louise Erdrich

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in th… read more

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Cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

10. 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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

11. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • african american
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Cover of Assata: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis, Assata Shakur, Lennox S. Hinds

12. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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13. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction

14. The Game of Silence

By: Louise Erdrich

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island … read more

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15. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

By: James Forman Jr.

3.00

Format: None pages,

In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent… read more

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16. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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17. Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , Stokely Carmichael

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fig… read more

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18. Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: Authorized Edition

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE "CHE: PART ONE" FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramati… read more

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19. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more

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20. The Porcupine Year

By: Louise Erdrich

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Here follows the story of a most extraordinary year in the life of an Ojibwe family and of a girl n… read more

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21. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

By: Manning Marable

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Selected by The New York Times Book Reviewas a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the def… read more

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22. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Cover of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

23. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. The Magician’s Daughter

By: H.G. Parry

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and m… read more

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  • historical
"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was …"

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

"She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream …"

-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

25. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

26. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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27. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

By: Nadia Murad

4.47

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Is… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Murad's The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State book and Bobby Seale's Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man…"

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

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28. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry

29. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

By: Imani Perry

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists… read more

Similar categories in Imani Perry's Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry book and Bobby Seale's Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
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30. Yoga for Witches

By: Sarah Robinson

4.06

Format: 220 pages, ebook

Il est temps de redevenir des sorcières et le yoga peut nous aider. La sorcellerie et le yoga ont … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Robinson's Yoga for Witches book and Bobby Seale's Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

  • nonfiction
Cover of Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale

31. Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

By: Bobby Seale

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In words and photographs, Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party… read more

Similar categories in Bobby Seale's Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers book and Bobby Seale's Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • politics
  • black literature
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • african american

9 Best politics books like Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale

Transform Your Habits

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

3.97

Transform Your Habits

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Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

Transform Your Habits

Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

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The Witch's Path: Advancing Your Craft at Every Level

Thorn Mooney

4.30

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Consorting with Spirits: Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies

Jason Miller

4.29

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Hekate: Goddess of Witches

Courtney Weber

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Goblin Mode: How to Get Cozy, Embrace Imperfection, and Thrive in the Muck

McKayla Coyle

3.45

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