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Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas

Down These Mean Streets

Piri Thomas

352 pages • 1967 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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Michelle Obama: A Life by Peter Slevin

Michelle Obama: A Life

Peter Slevin

432 pages • 2015 • 7 editions

nonfiction biography history politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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Loving Che by Ana Menéndez

Loving Che

Ana Menéndez

229 pages • 2003 • 5 editions

fiction historical emotional reflective fast-paced
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If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

197 pages • 1974 • 86 editions

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

bell hooks

184 pages • 2003 • 6 editions

nonfiction feminism gender race emotional reflective slow-paced
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How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs

How to Love a Jamaican

Alexia Arthurs

256 pages • 2018 • 9 editions

fiction contemporary short stories challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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How to Love a Country: Poems by Richard Blanco

How to Love a Country: Poems

Richard Blanco

112 pages • 2019 • 5 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

James Baldwin

496 pages • 1968 • 26 editions

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective slow-paced
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

289 pages • 2016 • 81 editions

nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

Aimé Césaire

100 pages • 1939 • 30 editions

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
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