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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2016 times as race)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,305 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1725 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,483 ratings — published 2010
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1557 times as race)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,737 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1532 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,477 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1450 times as race)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,546 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1233 times as race)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,032,831 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 1198 times as race)
avg rating 4.55 — 127,263 ratings — published 1963
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1096 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,006 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1086 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,797 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1012 times as race)
avg rating 4.12 — 875,337 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 989 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,036 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 869 times as race)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,733 ratings — published 2017
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 840 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,444 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 825 times as race)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,899 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 766 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,884 ratings — published 1965
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 765 times as race)
avg rating 4.49 — 832,050 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 753 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,605 ratings — published 2013
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 716 times as race)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,440 ratings — published 1997
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 708 times as race)
avg rating 4.14 — 314,262 ratings — published 1970
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 700 times as race)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,970 ratings — published 1981
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 699 times as race)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,038,266 ratings — published 1960
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 681 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,053 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 675 times as race)
avg rating 4.06 — 454,446 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 666 times as race)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,340 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 658 times as race)
avg rating 3.77 — 585,320 ratings — published 2019
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 629 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,127 ratings — published 1984
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 616 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,019 ratings — published 2016
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 611 times as race)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,698 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 602 times as race)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,542 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 588 times as race)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,974 ratings — published 1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 570 times as race)
avg rating 4.30 — 592,661 ratings — published 1969
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 567 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 286,582 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 559 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,699 ratings — published 1903
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 550 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 319,006 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as race)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,318 ratings — published 1952
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 542 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,775 ratings — published 2014
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as race)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,076 ratings — published 2015
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 538 times as race)
avg rating 3.99 — 505,609 ratings — published 1987
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 524 times as race)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,663 ratings — published 2010
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 516 times as race)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,949 ratings — published 1981
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 514 times as race)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,968 ratings — published 2018
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as race)
avg rating 4.69 — 41,493 ratings — published 2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 454 times as race)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,685 ratings — published 2020
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 449 times as race)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,401 ratings — published 1929
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 442 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,030 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as race)
avg rating 3.99 — 396,047 ratings — published 1937
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 423 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 270,703 ratings — published 2019
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 423 times as race)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,218 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as race)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,068,414 ratings — published 2009
“Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I'm utterly still; I feel my pulse tap several times against his lips, and then he releases my hand.
"For luck," he says. He takes Dove's lead from me.
"Sean," I say, and he turns. I take his chin and kiss his lips, hard. I'm reminded, all of a sudden, of that first day on the beach, when I pulled his head from the water.
"For luck," I say to his startled face.”
― The Scorpio Races
"For luck," he says. He takes Dove's lead from me.
"Sean," I say, and he turns. I take his chin and kiss his lips, hard. I'm reminded, all of a sudden, of that first day on the beach, when I pulled his head from the water.
"For luck," I say to his startled face.”
― The Scorpio Races
“I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
