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16 voters
Race Relations Books
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,976 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 — 173,633 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,031,348 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,027,729 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 — 119,366 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,064,832 ratings — published 2009
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,477 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,738 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,432 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.12 — 874,221 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,843 ratings — published 1963
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,489 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 — 39,002 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 — 120,230 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.49 — 830,256 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,066 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,571 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.77 — 584,794 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 — 27,435 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.25 — 318,334 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 — 47,615 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.06 — 453,844 ratings — published 2016
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 451,004 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,559 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 418,454 ratings — published 2016
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.42 — 567,853 ratings — published 2024
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,979 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 — 74,024 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,096 ratings — published 1952
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,608 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 — 135,595 ratings — published 1996
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.99 — 504,450 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,467 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,658 ratings — published 1903
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,365,552 ratings — published 2001
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.91 — 335,304 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 4.70 — 41,382 ratings — published 2021
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,125 ratings — published 1982
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.31 — 294,434 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.14 — 313,372 ratings — published 1970
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,543 ratings — published 1845
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,045 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,682 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 — 101,763 ratings — published 2017
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 240,322 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 — 25,951 ratings — published 2018
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,118 ratings — published 1961
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 245,528 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 — 30,683 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,011 ratings — published 2016
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my language, the fact that I didn’t conform to his expectations, that I could read, that had so disturbed and frightened him.”
― James
― James












