28 books
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15 voters
Race Relations Books
Showing 1-50 of 7,967
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,333 ratings — published 2015
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 109 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,740 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,032,931 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,038,951 ratings — published 1960
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,492 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,068,639 ratings — published 2009
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,551 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,030 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,482 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.12 — 875,407 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.55 — 127,291 ratings — published 1963
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,922 ratings — published 2014
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,038 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,465 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.49 — 832,150 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,634 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,730 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.77 — 585,343 ratings — published 2019
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,440 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.25 — 319,054 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,741 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.06 — 454,482 ratings — published 2016
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 452,250 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,903 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 419,606 ratings — published 2016
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.42 — 572,266 ratings — published 2024
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,031 ratings — published 2020
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,057 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,329 ratings — published 1952
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,688 ratings — published 2017
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.16 — 135,706 ratings — published 1996
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.99 — 505,664 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 286,646 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,700 ratings — published 1903
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,366,500 ratings — published 2001
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.91 — 336,209 ratings — published 2023
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.69 — 41,496 ratings — published 2021
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 766,057 ratings — published 1982
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.31 — 294,701 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.14 — 314,312 ratings — published 1970
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,713 ratings — published 1845
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,122 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,875 ratings — published 1940
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,799 ratings — published 2017
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 241,284 ratings — published 2021
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,969 ratings — published 2018
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,139 ratings — published 1961
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 245,707 ratings — published 1852
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,700 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,019 ratings — published 2016
“As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.”
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go….Miss Leefolt, she’d narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns”
― The Help
― The Help












