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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Current price: $9.99 Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. ...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by) Current price: $40.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ...
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto George M. Johnson Current price: $18.99 A New York Times Bestseller and the #1 Most Challenged Book in America according to the American Library Association ...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander Current price: $19.99 One of the New York Times's Best Books of the 21st Century ...
Chocolate Me! Taye Diggs Current price: $7.99 A timely book about how it feels to be teased and taunted, and how each of us is sweet and lovely and delicious on the inside, no matter how we look. ...
The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) Toni Morrison Current price: $17.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and gra ...
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International) James Baldwin Current price: $16.00 James Baldwin’s bestselling first novel—a coming-of-age story that depicts incredible resilience in pursuit of self-invention, now hailed as an American classic ...
Monday's Not Coming Tiffany D. Jackson Current price: $15.99 "Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List") ...
New Kid: A Graphic Novel Jerry Craft Current price: $15.99 Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature! ...
The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner Angie Thomas Current price: $21.99 8 starred reviews · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller! ...
Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes Current price: $8.99 A New York Times bestseller! A heartbreaking and powerful novel about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. ...
All American Boys Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely Current price: $12.99 A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. ...
Monster Walter Dean Myers Current price: $15.99 This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book ...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi Current price: $18.99 Don’t miss this “fresh and conversational” (TIME Magazine), “potent and provocative” (The San Francisco Chronicle), #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America.This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. ...
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard Current price: $16.99 A Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company Original World Premiere Production A NEW YORK TIMES and #1 INDIEBOUND BEST SELLER American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom's Top 10 Most Challenged Books ...
The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo Current price: $15.99 Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award. “A story that will slam the power of poetry and love back into your heart.” —Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Chains ...
Black Boy (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) Richard Wright Current price: $21.99 “This gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book is for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life.”—Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow ...
The Undefeated Kwame Alexander Current price: $19.99 Winner of the 2020 Caldecott Medal A 2020 Newbery Honor Book Winner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award ...
The Color Purple: A Novel Alice Walker Current price: $18.00 Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino. ...
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International) Toni Morrison Current price: $18.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. ...
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Current price: $18.00 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. ...
Invisible Man (Vintage International) Ralph Ellison Current price: $17.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. ...
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International) Toni Morrison Current price: $18.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. ...
A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Novel (Easy Rawlins Mystery #5) Walter Mosley Current price: $18.99 In this hard-boiled detective novel, Easy finally believes he can lead a simple life and leave his haunted past behind him—until he meets a woman who changes everything. ...
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Tayari Jones Current price: $18.99 A profound and intimate novel about a couple whose lives are completely altered after one of them is wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. “A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama ...
The Street Ann Petry Current price: $19.99 WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES ...
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel Colson Whitehead Current price: $18.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Current price: $17.99 A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick ...
Queenie Candice Carty-Williams Current price: $18.99 *NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES* “A book that sneaks up on you...I am hooked.” —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author ...
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel Jesmyn Ward Current price: $18.00 *Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
Americanah: A novel Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Current price: $19.00 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. ...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi Current price: $19.99 The National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. ...
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein Current price: $17.95 New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year ...
I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Austin Channing Brown Current price: $25.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals. ...
How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi Current price: $27.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. ...
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Current price: $28.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN ...
So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo Current price: $18.99 In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America ...
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race Beverly Daniel Tatum Current price: $21.99 The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. ...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Dr. Robin DiAngelo Current price: $17.00 The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. ...
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson Current price: $18.99 National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the Year ...
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (Empower the Future #Volume 1) Tiffany Jewell Current price: $14.99 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRecommended by Oprah’s Book Club, ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit + Co, PureWow, Teen Vogue, Time, New York, USA TODAY, and TODAY.com ...
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Layla F. Saad Current price: $25.99 The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! ...
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall Current price: $27.00 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Alake Olarewaju Ltd Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential." --Marlon James ...
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity Alexis Pauline Gumbs Current price: $23.95 In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. ...
Thick: And Other Essays Tressie McMillan Cottom Current price: $18.99 FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian ...
Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur Current price: $19.99 On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. ...
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor) Current price: $16.95 The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. ...
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Saidiya Hartman Current price: $19.99 Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction ...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Audre Lorde Current price: $17.99 Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. ...
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton Current price: $24.95 Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 ...
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements Charlene Carruthers Current price: $16.95 A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. ...
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America Paula J. Giddings Current price: $19.99 “History at its best—clear, intelligent, moving. Paula Giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject”—Toni Morrison ...
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me Janet Mock Current price: $16.99 “A defining chronicle of strength and spirit” (Kirkus Reviews), Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world—without a road map to guide her. ...
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America Darnell L. Moore Current price: $18.99 From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir. ...
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics) Patricia Hill Collins Current price: $36.24 In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. ...
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall Current price: $27.00 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Sula: A Novel (Vintage International) Toni Morrison Current price: $17.00 One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. ...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Clydesdale Classics) Harriet Ann Jacobs Current price: $5.99 Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. ...
