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Black Lives Matter Books
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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,017,326 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,597 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,725 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 168 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,577 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,887 ratings — published 2010
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,967 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 113 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,007 ratings — published 1963
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,164 ratings — published 2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,584 ratings — published 2016
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,469 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,538 ratings — published 2020
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,610 ratings — published 2014
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.37 — 73,567 ratings — published 2018
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 3.98 — 494,069 ratings — published 1987
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.30 — 584,455 ratings — published 1969
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,726 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.12 — 861,045 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,770 ratings — published 2010
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.28 — 756,044 ratings — published 1982
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.06 — 447,727 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,748 ratings — published 1965
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.33 — 85,830 ratings — published 2017
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.35 — 63,797 ratings — published 2020
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.13 — 304,559 ratings — published 1970
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,205,574 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,440 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.49 — 813,167 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 3.99 — 388,929 ratings — published 1937
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,738 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 62 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.25 — 311,049 ratings — published 2019
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,067 ratings — published 2013
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.47 — 407,382 ratings — published 2016
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,227 ratings — published 1997
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.28 — 50,359 ratings — published 2015
Heavy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.47 — 45,310 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 3.77 — 578,871 ratings — published 2019
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.31 — 275,331 ratings — published 1979
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.13 — 808,697 ratings — published 2010
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,850 ratings — published 2016
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,174 ratings — published 1984
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,109 ratings — published 2014
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,833 ratings — published 2019
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.24 — 138,542 ratings — published 2017
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,489 ratings — published 2013
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,945 ratings — published 2018
Queenie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 3.85 — 157,511 ratings — published 2019
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.26 — 266,262 ratings — published 2019
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,435 ratings — published 2020
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,106 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as black-lives-matter)
avg rating 3.93 — 387,100 ratings — published 2018
“Here is a new musical phenomenon. Not songs written for black musicians by white composers. Not humiliating parodies that grope for a laugh, joking at the black singers' expense. Black composers and lyricists, black musicians excellent in their own right. Not merely excellent, but daring and vibrant and wholly original.”
― Lovely War
― Lovely War
“They like the places where we hurt. They use it against us.
The words of the girl, my other self from the dream place, strikes with sudden understanding. The places where we hurt. Where we hurt. Not just me, all of us, colored folk everywhere, who carry our wounds with us, sometimes open for all to see, but always so much more buried and hidden deep. I remember the songs that come with all those visions. Songs full of hurt. Songs full of sadness and tears. Songs pulsing with pain. A righteous anger and cry for justice.
But not hate.
They ain't the same thing. Never was. These monsters want to pervert that. Turn it to their own ends. Because that's what they do. Twist you all up so that you forget yourself. Make you into something like them. Only I can't forget, because all those memories always with me, showing me the way.”
― Ring Shout
The words of the girl, my other self from the dream place, strikes with sudden understanding. The places where we hurt. Where we hurt. Not just me, all of us, colored folk everywhere, who carry our wounds with us, sometimes open for all to see, but always so much more buried and hidden deep. I remember the songs that come with all those visions. Songs full of hurt. Songs full of sadness and tears. Songs pulsing with pain. A righteous anger and cry for justice.
But not hate.
They ain't the same thing. Never was. These monsters want to pervert that. Turn it to their own ends. Because that's what they do. Twist you all up so that you forget yourself. Make you into something like them. Only I can't forget, because all those memories always with me, showing me the way.”
― Ring Shout
