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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

752 pages • 2016 • 9 editions

nonfiction history politics true crime challenging informative slow-paced
5.0 madgerdes's review
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

287 pages • 2015 • 43 editions

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

272 pages • 2016 • 4 editions

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
5.0 madgerdes's review
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

256 pages • 2018 • 20 editions

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Robert Kolker

400 pages • 2020 • 41 editions

nonfiction biography psychology science emotional informative sad medium-paced
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire

Angela Y. Davis

136 pages • 2003 • 7 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

272 pages • 2017 • 10 editions

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

Mumia Abu-Jamal

206 pages • 2017 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays history politics race challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
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Normal People by Sally Rooney

Normal People

Sally Rooney

400 pages • 2018 • 237 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Pizza Girl

Jean Kyoung Frazier

192 pages • 2020 • 19 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
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