13 best-selling nonfiction books like Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters by Omekongo Dibinga

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Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters

By: Omekongo Dibinga

4.47

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Black Lives Matter movement to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the …

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1. Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks, #1)

By: Miranda James

3.81

Format: 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a cat in the stacks... ...and he makes the purr-fect partner for a librarian-turned-sleuth… read more

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2. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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3. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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4. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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5. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

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  • african american
  • nonfiction
  • race
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6. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
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7. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

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8. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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  • african american
  • nonfiction
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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9. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
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10. Furia

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An #ownvoices contemporary YA set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything … read more

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"Lies have long legs."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"When we played, we were all the same. We were all one."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"I was just a girl with strong legs and a stubborn streak."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

"I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia

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11. The Blackwoods

By: Brandy Colbert

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations… read more

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  • african american
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12. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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13. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
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14. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

By: Tariq Trotter

4.20

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

“Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has ref… read more

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  • african american
  • nonfiction
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15. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice (Something Happened Series)

By: Marianne Celano

4.22

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Something Happened in Our Town follows two families—one White, one Black—as they discuss a police s… read more

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  • race
Cover of Unequal: A Story of America by Michael Eric Dyson

17. Unequal: A Story of America

By: Michael Eric Dyson

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson and critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

By: Mona Eltahawy

4.21

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and d… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"Racism and bigotry are not polite, and I refuse to be polite in my fight against them."

-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

"Patriarchy wants to control vaginas, but it also wants to control who has the right to even say the word “vagina."

-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

"Patriarchy keeps us terrified, demanding from us an endless supply of patience, passivity, and obedience, as it pathologiezes and snuffs out our justifiable rage."

-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

"Men cannot sit back and say, 'Well, I'm not rich and powerful; that's not me.' It is you - if you are not actively dismantling the patriarchy, you are factually benefiting from it. Are you uncomforta…"

-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

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19. More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew

By: John K. Blake

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
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20. Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters

By: Omekongo Dibinga

4.47

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Black Lives Matter movement to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
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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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  • nonfiction
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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

7 must-read african american books like Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters by Omekongo Dibinga

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

Transform Your Habits

Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Blackwoods

Brandy Colbert

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

Tariq Trotter

4.20

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11 Best adult books like The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

James Patterson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

Garrett M. Graff

4.59

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