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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton
4.65 average rating, · 86.2k ratings
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Heavy
Kiese Laymon
4.47 average rating, · 46.2k ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
4.60 average rating, · 32.9k ratings
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride
4.16 average rating, · 135.8k ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott
4.70 average rating, · 20.1k ratings
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Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
4.11 average rating, · 70.2k ratings
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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob
4.44 average rating, · 27.1k ratings
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Akala
4.53 average rating, · 22.9k ratings
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Somebody's Daughter
Ashley C. Ford
4.02 average rating, · 74.9k ratings
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Black Boy
Richard Wright
4.09 average rating, · 56.5k ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward
4.30 average rating, · 29.7k ratings
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Amber Ruffin
4.42 average rating, · 22.4k ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.34 average rating, · 24.4k ratings
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How We Fight For Our Lives
Saeed Jones
4.27 average rating, · 23.4k ratings
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King: A Life
Jonathan Eig
4.64 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Jeff Hobbs
4.14 average rating, · 29.1k ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston
4.05 average rating, · 33.8k ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King
4.40 average rating, · 16.6k ratings
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Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
Candace Owens
4.38 average rating, · 15.1k ratings
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
4.19 average rating, · 20.2k ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Alex Kotlowitz
4.30 average rating, · 16.3k ratings
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur
4.41 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
Tyler Merritt
4.50 average rating, · 11.4k ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Melba Pattillo Beals
4.18 average rating, · 16.6k ratings
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