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51 books

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

197 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

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fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Native Son by Richard Wright

Native Son

Richard Wright

504 pages • first pub 1940 (editions)

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fiction classics race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula

Toni Morrison

174 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

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fiction classics historical literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

369 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

3 hours, 35 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

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nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

426 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed #2

Octavia E. Butler

448 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

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fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Eric A. Stanley

365 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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nonfiction memoir middle grade poetry race emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced