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Race Relations Books
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,784 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 — 171,981 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,009,102 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,865,678 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 — 117,100 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,014,683 ratings — published 2009
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,341 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,944 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,792 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.55 — 120,557 ratings — published 1963
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.62 — 261,090 ratings — published 2014
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.12 — 852,811 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,388 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 — 116,613 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.49 — 804,148 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 411,668 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,202 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.77 — 575,282 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 — 27,122 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.25 — 306,696 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 4.44 — 45,816 ratings — published 2017
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 437,443 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.06 — 443,988 ratings — published 2016
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 401,630 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 290,833 ratings — published 1965
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,165 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 4.38 — 73,260 ratings — published 2018
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.33 — 85,274 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 201,774 ratings — published 1952
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,863 ratings — published 1903
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.44 — 484,515 ratings — published 2024
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.98 — 489,383 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 270,263 ratings — published 1979
The Color of Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.15 — 133,560 ratings — published 1996
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,351,225 ratings — published 2001
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.70 — 39,440 ratings — published 2021
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 299,893 ratings — published 1970
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 318,336 ratings — published 2023
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,699 ratings — published 1845
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 750,925 ratings — published 1982
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.29 — 50,023 ratings — published 2015
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.31 — 290,642 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,538 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 — 100,899 ratings — published 2017
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,644 ratings — published 2018
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,577 ratings — published 1961
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 242,438 ratings — published 1852
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.05 — 225,754 ratings — published 2021
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 — 30,380 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,767 ratings — published 2016
“Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language”
― Marriage Across the Color Line
― Marriage Across the Color Line
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means. You don’t know what’s happening on the other side of the wall, because you don’t want to know.”
― I Am Not Your Negro
― I Am Not Your Negro












