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Black Klansman: A Memoir
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
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The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
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The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
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Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World
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Nikita Stewart (Goodreads Author)
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Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
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Invisible: Britain's Migrant Sex Workers
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Hsiao-Hung Pai (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
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Ian Urbina (Goodreads Author)
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Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 11,126 ratings
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
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Moustafa Bayoumi (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 2,073 ratings
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
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Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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4.34 avg rating — 6,675 ratings
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The Undocumented Americans
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 26,261 ratings
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The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
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3.84 avg rating — 1,263 ratings
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
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Morgan Jerkins (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,094 ratings
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Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids
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3.75 avg rating — 2,127 ratings
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Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder
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Piu Marie Eatwell (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
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Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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Angela Saini (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 9,564 ratings
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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Sam Quinones (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 31,966 ratings
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
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4.32 avg rating — 8,812 ratings
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Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
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4.25 avg rating — 5,014 ratings
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
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4.54 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
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Suki Kim (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 22,109 ratings
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
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Anand Giridharadas (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,540 ratings
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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Luis Alberto Urrea (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 18,269 ratings
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Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
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Mario Alejandro Ariza (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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Marcia Chatelain (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,705 ratings
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Jun 23, 2021 06:30PM
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed doesn't actually belong on this list, as the author is white.
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Regan wrote: "Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed doesn't actually belong on this list, as the author is white."Thanks, Regan. I removed it.
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