Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the nar…
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1. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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2. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the… read more
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3. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By: Asha Bandele , Patrisse Khan-Cullors
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the moveme… read more
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4. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winnin… read more
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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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"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
6. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
By: Jonathan Karl
4.28
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more
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7. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
8. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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9. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
10. The City Inside
By: Samit Basu
3.31
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
“They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”Joey is a Reali… read more
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"They're on display. Indi's making sure her body catches the light as it changes colour off his smartatt reads, always a spectacular angle, never missing a beat, turning and placing his partner in an …"-Samit Basu, The City Inside
11. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- audiobook
12. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- race
- history
- audiobook
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- politics
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- social justice
- audiobook
14. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- social justice
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
15. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
By: Elie Mystal
4.59
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more
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16. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
By: Martin Wolf
3.97
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more
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- history
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17. 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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"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
18. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
19. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre,… read more
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- history
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"The things we do to stay close to the people we think will carry us through an entire lifetime..."-Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
20. The Trayvon Generation
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.36
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
21. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
By: Jen Psaki
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
22. Poet Warrior: A Memoir
By: Joy Harjo
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more
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- history
"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir
23. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By: Toni Jensen
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in s… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most …"-Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
24. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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- audiobook
25. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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- audiobook
26. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
27. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
28. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
29. Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America
By: Dan Pfeiffer
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
“BATTLING THE BIG LIE is an important read for anyone who’s wondering how the far right traffics in… read more
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- audiobook
30. Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the nar… read more
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- social justice
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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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"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
