Thresholes
By: Lara Mimosa Montes
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Thresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering. In this almanac of place …
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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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"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. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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- nonfiction
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
By: Leonard Koren
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Describes the principles of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic associated with Japanese tea ceremonies… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
4. Far from the Tree
By: Robin Benway , Sophie Lamotte d'Argy
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A contemporary novel about three adopted siblings who find each other at just the right moment. Bei… read more
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5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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- nonfiction
"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
6. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.10
Format: 264 pages,
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
7. Calamities
By: Renee Gladman
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems … read more
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8. Homer Price
By: Robert McCloskey
4.09
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more
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"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
9. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
11. Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline… read more
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12. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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13. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
14. No Longer Human
By: Junji Ito
4.28
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a… read more
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"The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them."-Junji Ito, No Longer Human
"I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink."-Junji Ito, No Longer Human
"Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere."-Junji Ito, No Longer Human
"Los débiles temen la felicidad misma. Pueden hacerse daño en el algodón. A veces son heridos incluso por la felicidad"-Junji Ito, No Longer Human
15. 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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- nonfiction
"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
16. 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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- nonfiction
"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
17. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
18. Hangman
By: Maya Binyam
3.59
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refug… read more
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19. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- poetry
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
20. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
21. Punks: New & Selected Poems
By: John Keene
4.26
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John … read more
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- nonfiction
22. or, on being the other woman
By: Simone White
4.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
In or, on being the other woman , Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminis… read more
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- poetry
23. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
By: Victoria Chang
4.50
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers."-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become …"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew t…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
24. Blood at the Root
By: LaDarrion Williams
4.05
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more
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25. Borealis
By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
4.03
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
An intimate essay on the art of Alaskan glaciers, memory, loneliness, and blackness in wild spaces.… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
26. Finna
By: Nate Marshall
4.49
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
27. The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
By: Dionne Brand
4.51
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's … read more
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28. Thresholes
By: Lara Mimosa Montes
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Thresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering. In this almanac of place … read more
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29. W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
By: Whitney Battle-Baptiste
4.60
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist a… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Mandible Wishbone Solvent (Phoenix Poets)
By: Asiya Wadud
4.50
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A poetry collection that brings together word, image, and sound to reflect on fractured, fragmentar… read more
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31. Book of the Other: small in comparison
By: Truong Tran
4.60
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A furious, multiform examination of the devastation wrought by anti-Asian racism in America Truo… read more
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- nonfiction
