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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

366 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

Robert P. Jones

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem

Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu

399 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

Jemar Tisby

253 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

Empire of Wild

Cherie Dimaline

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
fiction fantasy horror challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Borne

Borne #1

Jeff VanderMeer

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
fiction dystopian science fiction speculative fiction challenging reflective slow-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

496 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

226 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

409 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0heidibowell's review
fiction historical lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional hopeful medium-paced