Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change
By: Chelsea Kwakye
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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1. alterNatives
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A very liberal contemporary couple—Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a “n… read more
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2. Kanthapura
By: Raja Rao
3.39
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
This is the story of how Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typi… read more
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"Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"There is but one force in life and that is Truth, and there is but one love in life and that is love of mankind, and there is but one God in life and that is the God of all"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"O fire, O soul Give us the spark of God-eternal, That friend to friend and friend to foe, One shall we stand before HIM. And the flame of Jatin, And the fire of Bhagath, And the love of the Mahatma i…"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a…"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
3. The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
By: Tamara Winfrey Harris
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alrightexposes anti-black-woman … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- race
- nonfiction
4. Small Island
By: Andrea Levy
4.00
Format: None pages,
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart bro… read more
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5. Enduring Love
By: Ian McEwan
3.64
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return… read more
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- british literature
"... her conviction that love that did not find its expression in a letter was not perfect."-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
"I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand."-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
"When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it."-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
"I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible."-Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
6. Edward II
By: Christopher Marlowe
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
The last of Marlowe's great dramas, often considered his masterpiece. read more
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7. 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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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
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"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
8. The Dream of the Rood
By: Michael James Swanton , Cynewulf
3.85
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greate… read more
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9. 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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10. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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11. Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
By: Scarlett Curtis
4.01
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent and inspirational collection of essays by a diverse group of celebrities, activists, and … read more
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- self help
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- activism
- audiobook
"because Beyoncé"-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
"No one gains when a culture exploits itself."-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
"Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity."-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
"She has a voice. If you can't hear it, maybe it's because you're too busy talking."-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
12. Queenie
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.86
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a… read more
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- feminism
- race
- audiobook
"Never trust a gemini man"-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
13. Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue
By: Peter Everett
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organ… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
By: Mary Ann Sieghart
4.36
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Ferryman (NHB Modern Plays)
By: Jez Butterworth
4.36
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
Armagh, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. … read more
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16. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- activism
- audiobook
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
17. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
19. A Very Private School: A Memoir
By: Charles Spencer
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more
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- british literature
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #1)
By: Jeff Noon
3.72
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
In a distant, tattered future an old woman, a young girl and mechanical man embark on a slow voyage… read more
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- audiobook
21. She Must Be Mad
By: Charly Cox
3.58
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
‘Poetry meets mental health in Charly Cox’s brave and beautiful She Must Be Mad.’ Stylist Magazine … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
- audiobook
"You are not a girl nor a woman, you are an unwanted potato in a packet, left to half-freeze to close to the back of the fridge."-Charly Cox, She Must Be Mad
22. That Reminds Me
By: Derek Owusu
3.83
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of K. K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. He grows up in fields… read more
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- british literature
- race
- audiobook
"I wanted to live again. As they gathered, I felt the pressure of each tear awake to its own trickling sand weighing down the dirt on my grave."-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"As I walk home, doubting each step before I make it, I am agnostic. Before I close my eyes to sleep, I am a Christian. When I wake, pulled from the pool still reflecting the penumbra, I am spiritual,…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"After a late-night library trip I’d call her and say, ‘Look at the moon.’ Black boys rarely speak on the poet’s muse so these twilight tropes seemed original – the moon is glowing new when seen throu…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"Anansi, your four gifts raised to Nyame grant you no power over the stories I tell, stories that build like dew, alerting you but creating no music when they drop onto the drums of our sky. Take my ‘…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
23. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic
By: Lilly Workneh
4.58
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
A PARENTS' FAVORITE PRODUCTS TILLYWIG AWARD WINNER 2022 The fourth installment in the New York T… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
25. Dont Touch My Hair
By: Emma Dabiri
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Guardian contributor BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes an essay collection exploring th… read more
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- race
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
"The words we use to describe Afro hair do not relate to its texture and, judged by another's metric, it will always come up lacking. But we do not possess a list of words that reflect the qualities o…"-Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair
26. Black and British: A Short, Essential History
By: David Olusoga
4.52
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
A short, essential introduction to Black British history When did Africans first come to Britain… read more
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- race
- british literature
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
27. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
By: Afua Hirsch
4.32
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more
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- race
- british literature
- politics
- nonfiction
- anti racist
- audiobook
"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
28. Wearing My Mother's Heart
By: Sophia Thakur
3.97
Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition
From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a powerful new collection of poems about what i… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change
By: Chelsea Kwakye
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you read… read more
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- self help
- race
- british literature
- feminism
- politics
- education
- nonfiction
- activism
- anti racist
- audiobook
30. Black '47: A Story of Ireland's Great Famine - A Graphic Novel
By: Damien Goodfellow
3.53
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A gritty graphic novel about Ireland's Great Hunger. Jack and his family have been evicted by their… read more
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