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Biography & Memoir320
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History160
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Politics110
Literary & Classics86

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African American65

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Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
4.62 average rating, · 269.3k ratings
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40 average rating, · 373.7k ratings
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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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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
4.55 average rating, · 127.7k ratings
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
4.37 average rating, · 74.1k ratings
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.49 average rating, · 45k 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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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
4.49 average rating, · 26k 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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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
4.18 average rating, · 44.7k ratings
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Somebody's Daughter
Ashley C. Ford
4.02 average rating, · 74.9k ratings
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The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.36 average rating, · 28.4k ratings
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
Hanif Abdurraqib
4.54 average rating, · 19.7k 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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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde
4.40 average rating, · 24.6k 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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Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
4.36 average rating, · 25.5k 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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