The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities
By: Natasha K. Warikoo
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
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2. The Idiot
By: Elif Batuman
3.66
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
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3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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4. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
By: Jerome Karabel
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
A landmark work of social and cultural history, The Chosenvividly reveals the changing dynamics of … read more
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5. 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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6. An American Marriage
By: Tayari Jones
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is … read more
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7. Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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8. Cat's Cradle
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. My Body
By: Emily Ratajkowski
4.01
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity. Emily Ratajkowski… read more
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"I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find it. (Buying Myself Back)"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
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10. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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11. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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12. Either/Or
By: Elif Batuman
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more
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13. Less (Arthur Less, #1)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.63
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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14. Girlhood
By: Melissa Febos
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities
By: Natasha K. Warikoo
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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