100 Great Black Britons: A Celebration of the Extraordinary Contribution of Key Figures of African or Caribbean Descent to British Life
By: Patrick Vernon
4.13
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A long-overdue book honouring the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over man…
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Jon Ronson
3.93
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more
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- nonfiction
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
3. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
4. The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
By: Michael Eliot Howard
3.68
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perha… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
By: James Acaster
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five timesand has appeared on prime… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
Similar categories in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo book and Patrick Vernon's 100 Great Black Britons: A Celebration of the Extraordinary Contribution of Key Figures of African or Caribbean Descent to British Life
- race
7. Black Tudors: African Lives in Renaissance England
By: Miranda Kaufmann
2.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A black porter publicly whips a white English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily… read more
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- history
- race
- biography
- nonfiction
8. Black and British: A Forgotten History
By: David Olusoga
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- anti racist
9. A Suitable Boy (A Suitable Boy, #1)
By: Vikram Seth
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both t… read more
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10. The Good Immigrant
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- biography
- anti racist
"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
11. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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12. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
13. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
14. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)
By: Ian Rankin
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more
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15. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
By: Janice Hallett
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more
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16. False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.10
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusia… read more
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"If there was ever a candidate to be patron saint of computers then it would be Alan Turing. Mathematician, war hero and tragic victim of homophobia."-Ben Aaronovitch, False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
"He'd obviously wanted to tell someone about it for a long time and I was a convenient ear. I get that a lot. Stephanopoulos calls it my secret weapon. "It's that vacant expression," she said, "people…"-Ben Aaronovitch, False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
17. In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black #1)
By: Lola Akinmade Åkerström
3.82
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
An AMAZON Best of the Month Pick Good Morning America (GMA) Book Club Buzz Pick Finalist - 20… read more
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- race
"Privilege comes in levels, Brit,"-Lola Akinmade Åkerström, In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black #1)
18. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
19. Lost Britain: An A-Z of Forgotten Landmarks and Lost Traditions
By: David Long
3.68
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
From lost villages and Victorian theaters, to Tudor alleyways and medieval churches, Lost Britain t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
21. The Henna Wars
By: Adiba Jaigirdar
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls … read more
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""-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"Nishat can be anything she wants to be, exept herself."-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"It’s not something that happens, Ammu. It’s something I am."-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
"She’s inching forward. Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?"-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Henna Wars
22. Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)
By: S.J. Parris
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
Prague, 1588 A COURT IN TURMOIL The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundari… read more
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23. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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- race
"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
24. Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)
By: Mary Beard
3.68
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
25. Nothing But The Truth
By: The Secret Barrister
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
26. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
By: Greg Jenner
4.11
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong
By: James O'Brien
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists … read more
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- nonfiction
"Theresa May took this aversion to thinking to its apotheosis when she declared that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ shortly after becoming prime minister in July 2016. Even by the standards of modern British p…"-James O'Brien, How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong
28. Lady Sapiens. Enquête sur la femme au temps de la Préhistoire
By: Jennifer Kerner
3.66
Format: 247 pages, None
Que savons-nous de la femme de la Préhistoire ? Trente-trois des plus grands spécialistes mondia… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
30. 100 Great Black Britons: A Celebration of the Extraordinary Contribution of Key Figures of African or Caribbean Descent to British Life
By: Patrick Vernon
4.13
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A long-overdue book honouring the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over man… read more
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- anti racist
