Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
By: Rachel Jamison Webster
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Placing famed almanac writer Benjamin Banneker at the forefront, Benjamin Banneker and Us weaves to…
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1. Last House
By: Jessica Shattuck
3.64
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
2. Künstlers in Paradise
By: Cathleen Schine
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise
3. You Only Call When You're in Trouble
By: Stephen McCauley
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more
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- audiobook
4. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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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- american history
- race
- biography
- memoir
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
4.38
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major biography of one of our most influential but least known judicial activists that pr… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
By: Rachel Jamison Webster
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Placing famed almanac writer Benjamin Banneker at the forefront, Benjamin Banneker and Us weaves to… read more
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- race
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- memoir
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
8. 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
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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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
10. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
By: Burkhard Bilger
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- history
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
By: Audrey Burges
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling… read more
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- audiobook
13. Acts of Forgiveness
By: Maura Cheeks
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more
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- race
- audiobook
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness
14. 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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- american history
- race
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
15. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
16. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By: Maria Smilios
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
17. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
By: Rachel L. Swarns
4.13
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
18. Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
By: Crystal Wilkinson
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
19. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
20. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
By: Neil King Jr.
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City—an unfor… read more
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- american history
- biography
- memoir
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
By: Nick Tabor
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from tho… read more
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- american history
- race
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
23. George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
By: Sally Bedell Smith
4.28
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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- biography
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
26. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
By: Paterson Joseph
3.70
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
It’s finally time for Charles Ignatius Sancho to tell his story, one that begins on a slave ship in… read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
27. To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
28. Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
By: Rachel Slade
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever success… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America
By: Rachel Louise Martin
4.22
Format: 384 pages, ebook
An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
By: Nikhil Goyal
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the po… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
31. The Villain Edit
By: Laurie Devore
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Emily Henry meets Fleabag ...and The Bachelor ! An irresistibly sharp and sexy dramedy about a cyni… read more
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