Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique
By: Loretta J. Ross
4.54
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Practical tools and theoretical frameworks for understanding the fight for reproductive rights, fro…
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1. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more
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2. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
By: Kim Edwards
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His so… read more
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3. Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
By: Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
4.42
Format: 216 pages,
In the tradition of "Darkness Visible", this book presents a moving and memorable testament to the … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
4. The Underground Railroad
By: Colson Whitehead
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especiall… read more
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- race
5. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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6. Kindred
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindredhas become a cornerstone of black Americ… read more
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7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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8. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
By: Maya Angelou
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Once again, the poet casts her spell as she resumes one of the greatest personal narratives of our … read more
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9. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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10. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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11. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more
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12. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
13. 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
- essays
"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
14. Diary of a Void
By: Emi Yagi
3.51
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more
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- feminism
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
15. The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
By: Tasha Suri
4.13
Format: 533 pages, Paperback
Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy … read more
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"Malini laughed—a glorious laugh like the sound of a blade unsheathed."-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
"Be careful with your tears," her mother added, in a voice of cultivated restraint. "They're blood of the spirit. Weep too much, and it will wear you thin, until your soul is like a bruised flower." H…"-Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
16. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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- race
"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
17. Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more
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- gender
"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
18. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more
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"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
19. Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
By: Jennifer Block
4.17
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S. One … read more
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- gender
- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
20. Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique
By: Loretta J. Ross
4.54
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Practical tools and theoretical frameworks for understanding the fight for reproductive rights, fro… read more
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- history
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- activism
21. 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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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"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
