Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly…
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1. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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2. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
3. The Reformatory
By: Tananarive Due
4.47
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more
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4. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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5. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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6. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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7. 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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8. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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"Dad"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
9. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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10. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
11. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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12. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
13. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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14. 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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15. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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16. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
By: Bettina L. Love
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more
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17. 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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18. 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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19. Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away
By: Keith Boykin
4.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some arguments about race refuse to go away. It’s time, once and for all, to shatter them. The mo… read more
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20. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
By: Clay Cane
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republic… read more
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21. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more
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