Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime
By: Jeffrey Boakye
4.32
Format: None pages, None
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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3. Everyday Sexism
By: Laura Bates
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 2012 after being sexually harassed on London public transport Laura Bates, a young journalist, s… read more
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- nonfiction
"Women who lead, read"-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"Disbelief is the first great silencer."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
4. The Lonely Londoners
By: Sam Selvon
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more
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5. Half of a Yellow Sun
By: None
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more
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6. Men Who Hate Women
By: Laura Bates
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more
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- nonfiction
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
7. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
8. 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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"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
9. The 392
By: Ashley Hickson-Lovence
3.73
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
Set entirely on a London bus travelling from Hoxton to Highbury and taking place over just 36 minut… read more
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10. Girl, Woman, Other
By: Bernardine Evaristo
4.28
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more
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"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
11. Send Nudes
By: Saba Sams
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more
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"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."-Saba Sams, Send Nudes
12. My Name Is Why
By: Lemn Sissay
4.29
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
14. 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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- nonfiction
"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
15. Witness X (Group Fifteen Files, #2)
By: Mark Dawson
4.25
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
Mark Dawson’s Group Fifteen Files. Quick, lightning-paced, action from the first page to the last.B… read more
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16. Intimations
By: Zadie Smith
3.99
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more
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- nonfiction
"Strange inversions proliferate."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
17. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
19. The Dark Lady
By: Akala
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A natural storyteller with a vision of his own, The Dark Lady, Akala's debut novel for teens will e… read more
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20. Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
By: Bernardine Evaristo
3.98
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's m… read more
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- nonfiction
"Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren."-Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
21. The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
By: Anita Anand
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Little Sister (Group Fifteen Files, #3)
By: Mark Dawson
4.23
Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition
Mark Dawson’s Group Fifteen Files. Quick, lightning-paced, action from the first page to the last.B… read more
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23. 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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- nonfiction
"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
24. Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime
By: Dan Hancox
4.44
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
DIZZEE RASCAL. WILEY. KANO. STORMZY. SKEPTA. JME. SHYSTIE. WRETCH 32. GHETTS. LETHAL BIZZLE. TINCHY… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
25. The Situationship
By: Taylor-Dior Rumble
3.35
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When the love of her life shows up with a girlfriend, Tia decides it's time to put herself out ther… read more
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26. Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible
By: Yomi Adegoke
4.00
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade ou… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Rapthology: Lessons in Lyrics and Life
By: Jermaine Scott Sinclair a.k.a. Wretch 32
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A revelatory work of non-fiction from one of the most popular and influential musicians of today: p… read more
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- music
28. Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime
By: Jeffrey Boakye
4.32
Format: None pages, None
Hold Tight is the book that kick started the 'Grime Library'. Bursting into bookshops in July 2017 … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- academic
29. Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
By: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
4.19
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning social history of British rap and grime by one of the nation's foremost cultural chronic… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
30. Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover
By: Dj Target
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An explosive insider account of grime, from subculture to international phenomenon. ***** A group… read more
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- music
31. This is Grime
By: Hattie Collins
4.41
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
Narrated by its originators This is Grime is the first oral history of the most influential and inv… read more
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