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115 books

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America by Allyson Hobbs

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America

Allyson Hobbs

382 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology by Barbara Smith (feminist)

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

Barbara Smith (feminist)

404 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
nonfiction feminism sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams

Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change

Stacey Abrams

238 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
nonfiction biography memoir politics reflective fast-paced
The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman

The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman

138 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain

302 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective fast-paced
Dark Days by James Baldwin

Dark Days

Penguin Modern #38

James Baldwin

50 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
nonfiction classics essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Flush by Trekkie Ritchie, Virginia Woolf

Flush

Trekkie Ritchie, Virginia Woolf

204 pages • first pub 1933 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
fiction classics emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Looking for Alaska by John Green

Looking for Alaska

John Green

272 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
fiction contemporary romance young adult emotional sad medium-paced
Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History

Maus #1

Art Spiegelman

159 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
nonfiction comics graphic novel history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Maus #2

Art Spiegelman

144 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

5.0ahc's review
nonfiction comics history memoir dark emotional sad fast-paced