500 books
—
256 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Race Books
Showing 1-50 of 39,343
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2022 times as race)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,989 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1723 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,989 ratings — published 2010
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1566 times as race)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,844 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1529 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,029 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1450 times as race)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,297 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1238 times as race)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,854 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 1211 times as race)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,941 ratings — published 1963
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1107 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,936 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1078 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,497 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1015 times as race)
avg rating 4.11 — 889,005 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 993 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,507 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 886 times as race)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,128 ratings — published 2017
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 846 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,322 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 828 times as race)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,231 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 778 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,954 ratings — published 1965
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 773 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 856,947 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 755 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,858 ratings — published 2013
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 726 times as race)
avg rating 4.14 — 330,265 ratings — published 1970
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 713 times as race)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,651 ratings — published 1997
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 709 times as race)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,163,120 ratings — published 1960
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 704 times as race)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,206 ratings — published 1981
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 687 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,466 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 684 times as race)
avg rating 4.06 — 463,229 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 669 times as race)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,629 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 664 times as race)
avg rating 3.77 — 591,252 ratings — published 2019
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 631 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,980 ratings — published 1984
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 622 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,177 ratings — published 2016
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 608 times as race)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,923 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 603 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,257 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 592 times as race)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,985 ratings — published 1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 576 times as race)
avg rating 4.30 — 601,420 ratings — published 1969
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 576 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 299,166 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 569 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,143 ratings — published 1903
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 562 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 330,378 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 553 times as race)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,716 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as race)
avg rating 3.99 — 519,700 ratings — published 1987
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as race)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,945 ratings — published 2015
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as race)
avg rating 4.24 — 53,547 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 530 times as race)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,312 ratings — published 2010
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as race)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,478 ratings — published 1981
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 510 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 26,132 ratings — published 2018
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 464 times as race)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,911 ratings — published 2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 456 times as race)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,142 ratings — published 2020
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as race)
avg rating 3.91 — 87,627 ratings — published 1929
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 446 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,329 ratings — published 2020
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 432 times as race)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,191,755 ratings — published 2023
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as race)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,256 ratings — published 1937
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 424 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,903 ratings — published 1952
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 423 times as race)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,406 ratings — published 2017
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.”
―
―
“Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white."
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”
― The Help
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”
― The Help
