12 must-read politics books like Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions by Joseph L. Graves Jr.

Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

By: Joseph L. Graves Jr.

3.97

Format: None pages, ebook

The science on race is clear. Common categories like "Black," "white," and "Asian" do not represent…

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1. The History of White People

By: Nell Irvin Painter

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of "whiteness"--an illuminating work on the histor… read more

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2. Out of Darkness

By: Ashley Hope Pérez

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New Lo… read more

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3. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

By: Carol Anderson

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more

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4. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By: Imani Perry

3.97

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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6. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

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7. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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8. Fleishman Is in Trouble

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.64

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow – and at age forty-one, short as ever – surr… read more

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"I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something."

-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

"They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn’t-in a way she’d never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it."

-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

"I didn’t like the dark matter part. I feel like you can’t just decide something must exist because everything’s reacting to it. You can’t just give it a name and hope it’s true."

-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

"He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in th…"

-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

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9. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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10. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

By: Andrew H. Knoll

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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11. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris

3.90

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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
"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

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14. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. The Paris Bookseller

By: Kerri Maher

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the mo… read more

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"Anyone who read that much, had to be given to empathy."

-Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller

"Censorship is not commensurate with democracy. Or art."

-Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller

"Cu cât experiențele sunt mai interesante, cu atât atragi oameni mai interesanți."

-Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller

"Not every star is like the étoile polar, chérie. Some are more elusive, more subtle. But they are no less brilliant, no less important."

-Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller

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16. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

By: Bettina L. Love

4.54

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

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17. Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

By: Margot Douaihy

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to … read more

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"There is a sublime wholeness in holding one another, fitting into other bodies. We eat the body of Christ. We drink the blood. So many years later, Nina’s taste still laced my mouth—champagne, sweat,…"

-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

"I loved the chase. Even Riveaux’s insane driving. Not just the velocity but the violence of it all. I liked speeding through red lights. Headfirst to the edge. Scraping enough skin to burn not bleed.…"

-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

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18. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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19. Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

By: Nicole Hemmer

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politic… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

2.88

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a t… read more

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22. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

By: Robert P. Jones

4.43

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a pro… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
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23. The Cactus

By: Sarah Haywood

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable love story that shows sometimes you have to embrace the unexpected. Susan Green… read more

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"But, these days, fairy-tale endings come in all shapes and sizes. It’s okay for the princess to end up with the prince, it’s okay for her to end up with the footman, it’s okay for her to end up on he…"

-Sarah Haywood, The Cactus

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24. The Body Scout

By: Lincoln Michel

3.63

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister lo… read more

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"...People had been predicting the death of the city for years. Would that finally drive all the people out of this sinking island? I imagined office buildings filled with screeches instead of confere…"

-Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout

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25. Capital and Ideology

By: Thomas Piketty

4.28

Format: 1104 pages, Hardcover

The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Change comes when the short-term logic of events, intersects with the long term evolution of ideas."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly)."

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

"We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth be…"

-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

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26. Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

By: Jill Gutowitz

3.81

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Take a look at the bridge of “Mean"

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"The point is: if an activity or a show or a thing is only (or mostly) adored by men, that's a red flag."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

"Some days I wish I could throw my phone and all its dumb little apps into the sea, follow it briskly into the waves, and free myself from the chains of being Severely Online."

-Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

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27. Ordinary Girls

By: Jaquira Díaz

4.03

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

“There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Jul… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I was there a couple of years ago. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out knows that yo…"

-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls

"Every time I leave Miami, I tell myself I'm never coming back, only to end up right back where I started. I leave and come back again and again. Miami, like my family, is a place you learn to love an…"

-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls

"All these years later, I'll be back on that dance floor. I will be swaying and the music will fill me and I will be a girl again. My friends will be there, and we'll dance all night, one song after a…"

-Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls

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28. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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29. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

By: Jim Downs

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • science

30. Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

By: Joseph L. Graves Jr.

3.97

Format: None pages, ebook

The science on race is clear. Common categories like "Black," "white," and "Asian" do not represent… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • science
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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
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"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

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Imani Perry

3.97

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Cat Bohannon

4.32

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Andrew H. Knoll

3.95

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Malcolm Harris

3.90

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4.04

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