How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays)
By: Jerald Walker
4.40
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
For the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, “anger is often a prelude to…
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1. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attac… read more
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"I remembered my mother’s insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked down by a car on the way to or from school and I and the family would be disgraced even beyond the g…"-James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
2. The Association of Small Bombs
By: Karan Mahajan
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2016 When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi scho… read more
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"Yes, madam,"-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
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3. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
By: Jen Waite
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When … read more
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5. Wave
By: Sonali Deraniyagala
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost h… read more
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6. You'll Grow Out of It
By: Jessi Klein
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESAND USA TODAYBESTSELLER! YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, exp… read more
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7. Letter from the Birmingham Jail
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
2.96
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
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8. This Boy's Life
By: Tobias Wolff
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff… read more
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9. The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
By: Teresa Toten
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is … read more
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10. The Luis Ortega Survival Club
By: Sonora Reyes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School comes a story in the vein of… read more
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11. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
12. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
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"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
13. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
14. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
15. Thick: And Other Essays
By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today'… read more
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"I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me."-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
"Smart is only a construct of correspondence between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization."-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays
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16. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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17. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
18. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
By: Michael Scott-Baumann
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more
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19. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
20. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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21. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
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22. The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
By: A.J. Jacobs
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey… read more
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23. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
24. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
25. The Other Americans
By: Laila Lalami
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful n… read more
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"Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sen…"-Laila Lalami, The Other Americans
26. Advanced Physical Chemistry (Chemistry Lessons #3)
By: Susannah Nix
3.78
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
After four lousy boyfriends in a row, chemical engineer Penny Popplestone swears off men until she … read more
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27. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
By: Tiya Miles
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more
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- african american
28. Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
By: Pauli Murray
4.60
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray’s Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, … read more
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29. It's Elementary
By: Elise Bryant
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too in… read more
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"The guy next to him has dark brown hair down to his chin and striking blue eyes, like a real-life Shawn Hunter."-Elise Bryant, It's Elementary
30. How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays)
By: Jerald Walker
4.40
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
For the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, “anger is often a prelude to… read more
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31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
