11 books
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4 voters
Racial Books
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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as racial)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,029,133 ratings — published 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as racial)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,909,677 ratings — published 1960
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as racial)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,388 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as racial)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,523 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as racial)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,585 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as racial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,014,877 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as racial)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,157 ratings — published 1965
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as racial)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,586 ratings — published 2019
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as racial)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,818 ratings — published 2016
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as racial)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,751 ratings — published 2017
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as racial)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,898 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as racial)
avg rating 4.12 — 858,353 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,391 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 3.77 — 577,709 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,361 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,444 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,749 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,243 ratings — published 1982
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,108 ratings — published 2020
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.93 — 73,289 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,081 ratings — published 2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,505 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,241 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,403 ratings — published 1952
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,650 ratings — published 1994
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 273,179 ratings — published 1979
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,073 ratings — published 1963
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,039 ratings — published 1984
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,023 ratings — published 1903
Luster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 3.50 — 111,058 ratings — published 2020
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,695 ratings — published 1981
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,697 ratings — published 2019
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,437 ratings — published 2020
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 413,947 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,469 ratings — published 1971
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,188 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.25 — 309,478 ratings — published 2019
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.33 — 85,633 ratings — published 2017
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.13 — 302,861 ratings — published 1970
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.62 — 262,771 ratings — published 2014
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,389 ratings — published 2010
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,680 ratings — published 1961
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 3.78 — 91,257 ratings — published 2005
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.34 — 630,536 ratings — published 2017
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.05 — 229,191 ratings — published 2021
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,346 ratings — published 2016
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,283 ratings — published 1981
The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.34 — 728 ratings — published 2018
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,395 ratings — published 2000
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.37 — 73,457 ratings — published 2018
“The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.”
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“So no matter if your color is black or white, red or blue, I can still make friends with you without any barrier. In saying that “everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,” you may think that I am idealistic. But if anyone still believes in things like racial differences, I think they are too narrow. Perhaps they still do not understand love.”
― Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
― Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee












