6 must-read nonfiction books like Redaction by Reginald Dwayne Betts

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Redaction

By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.71

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

MacArthur fellows Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar present a stunning literary and artistic c…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Redaction by Reginald Dwayne Betts , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. How to Be Perfect

By: Ron Padgett

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder."--Rob… read more

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  • poetry
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2. American Born Chinese

By: Gene Luen Yang

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more

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3. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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4. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.12

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortn… read more

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  • art
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6. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

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"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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7. 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

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  • poetry
"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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8. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

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9. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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10. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

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11. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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  • poetry
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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13. The High Desert

By: James Spooner

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of … read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

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  • poetry
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15. Shelterbelts

By: Jonathan Dyck

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Fractures form in a tight-knit Mennonite community, echoing the struggles experienced in small town… read more

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16. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)

By: Terrance Hayes

4.17

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more

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  • poetry
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17. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Night Bus

By: Zuo Ma

3.16

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Quando cala l’oscurità, i mezzi pubblici smettono di circolare. Il solo modo che hai per tornare a … read more

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19. Diaries of a Terrorist

By: Christopher Soto

4.35

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

This debut poetry collection demands the abolition of policing and human caging. In Diaries of a Te… read more

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  • poetry
  • politics

20. Super Sad Black Girl

By: Diamond Sharp

4.11

Format: None pages, None

Diamond Sharp’s Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Redaction

By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

4.71

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

MacArthur fellows Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar present a stunning literary and artistic c… read more

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  • poetry
  • politics
  • art
  • nonfiction

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How to Be Perfect

Ron Padgett

2.50

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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Clint Smith

4.56

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Trace Evidence: Poems

Charif Shanahan

3.95

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Deena Mohamed

4.50

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4.65

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3.77

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