Heard on "Closer Look" with Rose Scott on WABE-FM (fiction and nonfiction)
1. 
Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying the Planet--and How They Explain Themselves to Their Own Children
by:
Dick Russell
3.81 avg rating — 75 ratings 
3. 
My Time With the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Kathryn Johnson
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings 4. 
Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
by:
Clayborne Carson
3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings 5. 
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
by:
Brittney Cooper
4.38 avg rating — 13,757 ratings 6. 
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America 4.10 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
9. 
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by:
Carol Anderson
4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings 
11. 
The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
by:
Shankar Vedantam
3.99 avg rating — 2,990 ratings 12. 
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by:
Bill Browder
4.44 avg rating — 104,281 ratings 
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Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life
by:
Michael J. Coles
4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings 18. 
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
by:
Greg Palast
4.15 avg rating — 222 ratings 
21. 
What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump's War on Civil Rights
by:
Juan Williams
3.77 avg rating — 70 ratings 22. 
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster 3.68 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
23. 
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers 3.91 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
24. 
Trust First: A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances
by:
Bruce Deel
4.34 avg rating — 389 ratings 25. 
Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
by:
Carl Suddler
4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings 
28. 
Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System 4.34 avg rating — 2,370 ratings
30. 
Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time
by:
Catherine Meeks
3.89 avg rating — 149 ratings 
32. 
The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family
by:
Sylvia A. Harvey
4.25 avg rating — 81 ratings 33. 
Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad
by:
John O. Brennan
4.06 avg rating — 1,243 ratings 34. 
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by:
Gene Roberts
4.21 avg rating — 1,624 ratings 
42. 
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality 4.38 avg rating — 595 ratings
43. 
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
by:
Valerie Boyd
4.36 avg rating — 1,135 ratings 44. 
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
by:
Alice Walker
4.21 avg rating — 429 ratings 45. 
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
by:
Dan Immergluck
3.95 avg rating — 121 ratings 
