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1Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A personal letter to his son that places one writer's life within American racial history.
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2The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
A narrative history of the Great Migration told through the lives of three people who moved north.
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3Stamped from the Beginning
Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi
A history of racist ideas in America, traced through the thinkers who shaped them.
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4Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
A set of essays in which Baldwin writes about his own life in relation to race and the American nation.
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5Born a Crime
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
A memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid in South Africa, told with close attention to family.
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6Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father
Barack Obama
A memoir of searching for identity across races, countries and family histories.
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7Heavy
Heavy
Kiese Laymon
A memoir organised around the writer's body, family and childhood in Mississippi.
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8Hunger
Hunger
Roxane Gay
A memoir about body, size and trauma that also looks at how race and gender shape how a life is seen.
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9Playing in the Dark
Playing in the Dark
Toni Morrison
A critical study of how whiteness and Blackness appear in American literature.
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10Just Mercy
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
A narrative account of a lawyer's work on behalf of people condemned in the American justice system.
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