1,160 books
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Racial Books
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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as racial)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,062,005 ratings — published 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as racial)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,018,657 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 — 173,571 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as racial)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,637 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 — 119,273 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as racial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,030,057 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as racial)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,220 ratings — published 1965
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as racial)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,425 ratings — published 2019
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as racial)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,004 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 — 12,114 ratings — published 2017
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as racial)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,404 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as racial)
avg rating 4.12 — 873,266 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,950 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 3.77 — 584,340 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.49 — 828,825 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.06 — 453,322 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,963 ratings — published 1937
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.28 — 764,402 ratings — published 1982
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,540 ratings — published 2020
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,962 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 — 101,721 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 — 38,978 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 — 47,515 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,895 ratings — published 1952
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.86 — 196,004 ratings — published 1994
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 284,662 ratings — published 1979
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,556 ratings — published 1963
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,995 ratings — published 1984
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,621 ratings — published 1903
Luster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 3.50 — 112,695 ratings — published 2020
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,802 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 — 12,890 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 — 30,678 ratings — published 2020
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 420,619 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,890 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 — 27,424 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.25 — 317,759 ratings — published 2019
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,544 ratings — published 2017
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.14 — 312,665 ratings — published 1970
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,165 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.13 — 818,730 ratings — published 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,060 ratings — published 2010
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,096 ratings — published 1961
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 3.78 — 92,665 ratings — published 2005
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,110,132 ratings — published 2023
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.34 — 661,148 ratings — published 2017
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.30 — 208,424 ratings — published 2021
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.04 — 239,567 ratings — published 2021
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.47 — 417,532 ratings — published 2016
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,870 ratings — published 1981
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