One Day When I Was Lost
By: James Baldwin
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
James Baldwin's screenplay based on Alex Haley's now classic The Autobiography Of Malcolm X makes i…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Malcolm—the world’s much more like me than it is like you. People recognize me. They see me in their mirror. But they don’t hardly ever see you. You’re not in the mirror with them."-James Baldwin, One Day When I Was Lost
"The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don’t we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we’re going to have to defend ourselves against you?"-James Baldwin, One Day When I Was Lost
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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- african american
"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
3. Ghostwritten
By: David Mitchell
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong … read more
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4. Breath, Eyes, Memory
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists… read more
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- african american
5. Beneath the Wheel
By: Hermann Hesse , None
4.47
Format: 310 pages,
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheelor The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respec… read more
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7. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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8. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
By: Daniel José Older , Edwidge Danticat , Jesmyn Ward , Honorée Fanonne Jeffers , Claudia Rankine , Kevin Young , Carol Anderson , Isabel Wilkerson , Mitchell S. Jackson , Kiese Laymon , Natasha Trethewey , Clint Smith , None , Garnette Cadogan , None , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, T… read more
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9. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
By: Barack Obama
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more
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10. Dancer from the Dance
By: Andrew Holleran
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more
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11. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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12. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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13. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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15. James Baldwin
By: David A. Leeming
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A major life of one of the most influential black writers of our time, James Baldwin (Go Tell It on… read more
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16. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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17. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
18. Rootless
By: Krystle Zara Appiah
3.83
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more
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19. The Office of Historical Corrections
By: Danielle Evans
4.18
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and … read more
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- race
- african american
"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunder…"-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
20. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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21. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
By: Tarana Burke
4.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder and activist behind the largest movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuri… read more
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- history
- race
- biography
- nonfiction
"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can't empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can’t empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
"Never let anyone touch your private parts, they’d say. But I wasn’t told why I had to protect my private parts, just that it was imperative that I did. Because of this, when I thought of my experienc…"-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
22. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- biography
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
23. Their Vicious Games
By: Joelle Wellington
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to disc… read more
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24. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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25. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
26. Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
By: Viktor E. Frankl
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his internati… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"A human being should never become a means to an end."-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
"It is the nature of love that makes us see our loved one in their uniqueness and individuality."-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
"To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances--because life itself is--but it is also possible under all circumstances."-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
"We also do not judge the life history of a particular person by the number of pages in the book that portrays it but only by the richness of the content it contains."-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
27. Deacon King Kong
By: James McBride
4.17
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more
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- race
- african american
"Friendship was trouble in business."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"You’ve got to be strong to get old."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
28. Ædnan
By: Linnea Axelsson
4.23
Format: 762 pages, Hardcover
Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more
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29. One Day When I Was Lost
By: James Baldwin
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
James Baldwin's screenplay based on Alex Haley's now classic The Autobiography Of Malcolm X makes i… read more
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- african american literature
- race
- history
- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- african american
- plays
- drama
"Malcolm—the world’s much more like me than it is like you. People recognize me. They see me in their mirror. But they don’t hardly ever see you. You’re not in the mirror with them."-James Baldwin, One Day When I Was Lost
"The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having…"-James Baldwin, One Day When I Was Lost
30. Who's That Girl?: A Memoir
By: Eve.
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated ra… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
