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155 books

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

356 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0jlkenneth's review
fiction contemporary literary funny reflective fast-paced
Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula

Toni Morrison

174 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0jlkenneth's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz

Lost & Found

Kathryn Schulz

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0jlkenneth's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

118 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jlkenneth's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown

3 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0jlkenneth's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

152 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0jlkenneth's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective 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)

5.0jlkenneth's review
nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

5.0jlkenneth's review
nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jlkenneth's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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)

5.0jlkenneth's review
nonfiction history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced