A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South
By: Cinelle Barnes
4.27
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
A fierce collection of essays that tackle the question, "Who is welcome?" while also uplifting and …
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1. Selected Poems
By: Langston Hughes
4.31
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poem… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"Consider me, Descended also From the Mystery."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"Hell no! It's time to talk back now! History says it's time"-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"Joe has sense enough to know He is a god. So many gods don't know."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
2. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in Am… read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
3. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more
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4. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
5. Clay's Ark (Patternmaster, #3)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world b… read more
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6. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
By: Lesley Nneka Arimah
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
In Who Will Greet You at Homea woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling … read more
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7. Long Division
By: Kiese Laymon
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
Kiese Laymon's debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religio… read more
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8. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- race
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
9. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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- race
- short stories
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
10. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- memoir
- politics
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
11. Parkland: Birth of a Movement
By: Dave Cullen
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
12. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
13. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
14. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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- short stories
"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
15. Tomb Sweeping
By: Alexandra Chang
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
16. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
17. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
18. Black Water Sister
By: Zen Cho
3.86
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Ma… read more
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"Maybe that was what true love meant: a bitterness that stayed on the tongue when everything else faded."-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister
"What a thing a bad death was. It made a mythology that caught up in its wake old trees and young women alike, the violence of it reverberating through the years."-Zen Cho, Black Water Sister
19. 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
20. 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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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"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
21. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
22. Hula
By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that u… read more
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"We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction."-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
"In Hilo, we are the `āina. Its mist is our breath, its rain our tears, its waters our blood. Our veins run deep, our song louder than their noise. Roots too deep to extract. That’s the thing about hu…"-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
23. Anoka
By: Shane Hawk
3.74
Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Anoka, Minnesota, a small city just outside of the Twin Cities dubbed “The Halloween Cap… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
24. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
25. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
26. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
27. Sleepovers: Stories
By: Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
4.15
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Lauren Groff as “fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complica… read more
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- southern
- short stories
- anthologies
28. A Fortune for Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: None pages, None
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
29. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
By: Mallory O'Meara
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunke… read more
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- nonfiction
"It's hilarious that having a cushion on a barstool to make it more comfortable is considered a feminine touch, but there you go. Maybe it's a mark of masculine virility to have a sore butt."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"So many names and stories have been lost to time. Having a legacy is a privilege afforded only to a few. Often, it's about class. . . . sometimes it's just about when and were you were born."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"The Western world entered a new era: medieval times. Unfortunately, it wasn't anything like the themed restaurant. There were a lot less roasted turkey legs and a lot more open-air latrines."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"Generally, the gendering of alcohol is only found where women have access to drinking space. If you can't keep women out of the space where drinking happens, you keep them out of the drinks themselve…"-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
30. A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South
By: Cinelle Barnes
4.27
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
A fierce collection of essays that tackle the question, "Who is welcome?" while also uplifting and … read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- anthologies
- southern
- short stories
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- sociology
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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- race
- memoir
- 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
