75 Books for the Next Four Years

1.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
2.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
3.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,044 ratings
4.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,949 ratings
5.
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,140 ratings
6.
Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy
Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy 3.91 avg rating — 64 ratings
7.
The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
8.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,774 ratings
9.
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom 4.45 avg rating — 12,301 ratings
10.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,882 ratings
11.
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,693 ratings
12.
The New Testament
The New Testament 4.24 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
13.
Freedom City
Freedom City 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
13.
TWAS The Year 2020
TWAS The Year 2020 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
15.
Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,260 ratings
16.
Gorilla, My Love
Gorilla, My Love 4.11 avg rating — 2,311 ratings
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Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays 4.66 avg rating — 2,293 ratings
18.
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
The Evidence of Things Not Seen 4.06 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
19.
Sister Wendy Beckett Meditations on Silence
Sister Wendy Beckett Meditations on Silence 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
20.
The Performance of Becoming Human
The Performance of Becoming Human 3.96 avg rating — 626 ratings
21.
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 4.35 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
22.
Utopia Minus
Utopia Minus 4.23 avg rating — 56 ratings
23.
Heart of the Breath
Heart of the Breath 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
24.
Crowds and Power
Crowds and Power 4.07 avg rating — 2,054 ratings
25.
The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.43 avg rating — 5,286 ratings
26.
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living 4.24 avg rating — 13,438 ratings
27.
The Laugh of the Medusa
The Laugh of the Medusa 4.18 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
28.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,391 ratings
29.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,207 ratings
30.
White Blight
White Blight 3.99 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
31.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,467 ratings
32.
The Activist
The Activist 4.04 avg rating — 196 ratings
33.
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
by: Joy Harjo
4.33 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
34.
Barbarian in the Garden
Barbarian in the Garden 4.29 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
35.
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems 4.56 avg rating — 478 ratings
36.
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
by: Tony Judt
4.15 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
37.
It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here 3.80 avg rating — 22,841 ratings
38.
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class 4.19 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
39.
Humanimal: A Project for Future Children
Humanimal: A Project for Future Children 4.08 avg rating — 627 ratings
40.
Mess And Mess And
Mess And Mess And 4.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
41.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 3.82 avg rating — 4,975 ratings
42.
Hope Against Hope
Hope Against Hope 4.37 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
43.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch 3.87 avg rating — 25,862 ratings
44.
Agnes Martin: Writings / Schriften
Agnes Martin: Writings / Schriften 4.53 avg rating — 182 ratings
45.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,708 ratings
46.
The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge
The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
47.
The Collected Poems of George Oppen
The Collected Poems of George Oppen 4.53 avg rating — 496 ratings
48.
Omon Ra
Omon Ra 3.90 avg rating — 9,422 ratings
49.
Apology
Apology
by: Plato
4.19 avg rating — 63,752 ratings
50.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,894 ratings
51.
The Life of Poetry
The Life of Poetry 4.29 avg rating — 304 ratings
52.
Methodology of the Oppressed
Methodology of the Oppressed 4.14 avg rating — 408 ratings
53.
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People 3.71 avg rating — 185 ratings
54.
Look: Poems
Look: Poems 4.31 avg rating — 2,644 ratings
55.
A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, #1)
A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 2,384 ratings
56.
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power 3.98 avg rating — 11,387 ratings
57.
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 18,960 ratings
58.
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite 4.08 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
59.
Manatee/Humanity
Manatee/Humanity 4.05 avg rating — 75 ratings
60.
Anything We Love Can Be Saved
Anything We Love Can Be Saved 4.12 avg rating — 1,136 ratings
61.
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race 4.35 avg rating — 9,412 ratings
62.
Utopia
Utopia 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
63.
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation 1933-1939
The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation 1933-1939 4.05 avg rating — 395 ratings
64.
I, too, dislike it
I, too, dislike it
by: Mia You
4.53 avg rating — 53 ratings
65.
Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives
Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
66.
Savage Coast
Savage Coast 3.56 avg rating — 174 ratings
67.
Whisper Louise
Whisper Louise 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
68.
The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
69.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
70.
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
by: Ross Gay
4.24 avg rating — 6,130 ratings
71.
Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge
Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge 4.68 avg rating — 37 ratings
72.
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 3.83 avg rating — 168,480 ratings
73.
Words Like Love (West End Press New Series)
Words Like Love (West End Press New Series) 4.41 avg rating — 46 ratings
74.
Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths
Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths 4.31 avg rating — 452 ratings
75.
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study 4.40 avg rating — 864 ratings
76.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,735 ratings