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Inner City Books
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Tyrell (Tyrell, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,083 ratings — published 2006
Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.73 — 75,858 ratings — published 1999
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,293 ratings — published 2019
When I Was the Greatest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,538 ratings — published 2014
Bronx Masquerade (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,063 ratings — published 2001
The Death of Jayson Porter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.93 — 491 ratings — published 2008
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.49 — 30,929 ratings — published 2009
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,517 ratings — published 2017
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,809,704 ratings — published 2012
City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,023,193 ratings — published 2009
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,195,531 ratings — published 2007
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,004,293 ratings — published 2008
Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,342 ratings — published 1993
Ghost (Track, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,453 ratings — published 2016
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.24 — 141,032 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,029,377 ratings — published 2017
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,027 ratings — published 2015
Pigeon English (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.52 — 12,573 ratings — published 2011
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,875 ratings — published 2012
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,034 ratings — published 2014
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.50 — 941 ratings — published 2013
Peace, Locomotion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,042 ratings — published 2009
The Orange Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.45 — 996 ratings — published 2009
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,560 ratings — published 2002
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,251 ratings — published 1991
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.22 — 839,933 ratings — published 1987
Desayuno en Tiffany's (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.71 — 39,760 ratings — published 1958
All Involved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,202 ratings — published 2015
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,767 ratings — published 1994
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,106 ratings — published 1997
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.21 — 12,496 ratings — published 2022
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,833 ratings — published 2008
The Essential 55 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,853 ratings — published 2003
You Cant Say You Can't Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.86 — 735 ratings — published 1992
Here I Am... A Memoir for Motivational Purposes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Victim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,568 ratings — published 2024
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,544 ratings — published 2021
A Most Beautiful Thing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,430 ratings — published 2020
Small Mercies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 76,102 ratings — published 2023
Acceleration (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,083 ratings — published 2003
Crook Manifesto (The Harlem Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.86 — 21,384 ratings — published 2023
Rough Sleepers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,324 ratings — published 2023
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.25 — 269,911 ratings — published 2019
Boy21 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,982 ratings — published 2012
Mick (Blue-Eyed Son, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.25 — 24 ratings — published 1996
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.04 — 230,616 ratings — published 2005
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.23 — 630 ratings — published 2021
The Cross and the Switchblade (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,658 ratings — published 1963
Saint Iggy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,424 ratings — published 2006
Nightcrawling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.94 — 63,479 ratings — published 2022
“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.”
― Decoded
― Decoded
