Books like Create Dangerously
Loved Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat? Here are 5 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
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- 1The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time
James BaldwinTwo essays on race and violence in America, written with the urgency of a writer who feels the danger of his subject.
- 2I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya AngelouA memoir of childhood and migration that shows how reading and storytelling shape a writer's life.
Books like it → - 3Reading Lolita in Tehran
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar NafisiA memoir of reading banned books under political repression, written by a woman who taught literature under threat.
- 4Black Boy
Black Boy
Richard WrightAn autobiography of a young Black writer's growing up in the American South and the books that opened his mind.
- 5Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi CoatesA book-length letter on race and the body in America, written as a direct address to a son.
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