Magically Black and Other Essays
By: Jerald Walker
4.14
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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2. Womb City
By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
3.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more
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- audiobook
3. bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Sam Sax
4.18
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Sam Sax’s bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begi… read more
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4. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
5. The World Record Book of Racist Stories
By: Amber Ruffin
4.40
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more
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6. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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7. You Get What You Pay For: Essays
By: Morgan Parker
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more
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8. Abbott
By: Saladin Ahmed
4.02
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncov… read more
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9. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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10. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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11. Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account
By: Ernesto Saade
3.95
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
"This is the story of Carlos and Elena, the story of thousands, the story of my country . . . This … read more
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- memoir
12. Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
By: Katherine Rundell
4.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) recko… read more
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13. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
By: Charlotte Shane
3.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more
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- memoir
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14. When We Are Seen: How to Come Into Your Power—and Empower Others Along the Way
By: Denise Young
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From one of the first and few women of color to reach the c-suite in Silicon Valley, Apple’s former… read more
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15. Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known
By: George M. Johnson
4.44
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essay… read more
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- essays
- audiobook
16. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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- race
17. We Could Be Rats
By: Emily R. Austin
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and th… read more
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18. We Came to Welcome You
By: Vincent Tirado
3.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut f… read more
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- audiobook
19. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
By: Rebecca Nagle
4.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 (An Ashe Cayne Mystery)
By: Ian K. Smith
4.25
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creatu… read more
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21. Magically Black and Other Essays
By: Jerald Walker
4.14
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In Magically Black and Other Essays Jerald Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural… read more
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22. 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
23. We're Alone: Essays
By: Edwidge Danticat
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in… read more
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- memoir
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24. Hungerstone
By: Kat Dunn
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hungerstone is a thrillingly seductive sapphic romance for fans of S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood a… read more
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25. The River Has Roots
By: Amal El-Mohtar
4.45
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters… read more
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26. The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
By: Carrie Schuettpelz
4.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of Native American identity, tribal enrollment, ancestry, and what all… read more
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27. Visitations
By: Corey Egbert
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events, this haunting yet hopeful young adult graphic novel weaves together family… read more
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28. Memorial Days: A Memoir
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.55
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pu… read more
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- memoir
29. We Lived on the Horizon
By: Erika Swyler
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI as they are drawn into a catastrophic wa… read more
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30. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By: Omar El Akkad
4.66
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it me… read more
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"Whose non-existence is necessary to the self-conception of this place?"-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
"Whose non existence is necessary to the self conception of this place?"-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
"There is a numb overriding grief that colors life in the audience to a slaughter."-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
"The truth and reconciliation committees are coming. The land acknowledgements are coming. The very sorry descendants are coming."-Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
31. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
By: Neko Case
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood … read more
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"I also have acute high-end hearing, so things bother me that other people can't hear. For example, I can hear electricity. Most people can't. I had no idea, I just thought everybody could."-Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
"I had looked into the eyes of those wounds on my mother's hip bones for her; it was the worst thing I'd ever seen, and I would have done it a million times more because that's how much I loved her. I…"-Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
"I had looked into the eyes of those wounds on my mother's hip bones for her; it was the worst thing I'd ever seen, and I would have done it a million times more because that's how much I loved her. I…"-Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
"Looking back at my childhood, I slowly understood that even if no one talked about it, these secrets had been a distress signal that buzzed all through it, a frequency that's too low to hear, but you…"-Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
