Ta-Nehisi Coates Essential Reads

1.
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 4.08 avg rating — 7,066 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,993 ratings
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War 4.04 avg rating — 7,249 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.39 avg rating — 10,406 ratings
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 4.21 avg rating — 6,119 ratings
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What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War 4.07 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,177 ratings
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Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,773 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,286 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War 4.12 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
12.
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 4.18 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
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Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America
Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America 4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings
13.
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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Narrative Of The Life And Adventures Of Henry Bibb: An American Slave
Narrative Of The Life And Adventures Of Henry Bibb: An American Slave 4.01 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation 4.49 avg rating — 394 ratings
17.
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time 3.96 avg rating — 768 ratings
18.
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 4.22 avg rating — 8,102 ratings
19.
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market 4.11 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,507 ratings
21.
Second Treatise of Government
Second Treatise of Government 3.78 avg rating — 23,639 ratings
22.
Leviathan
Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,350 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
24.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,375 ratings
25.
Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement 4.20 avg rating — 966 ratings
25.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,475 ratings
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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom : Including Their Own Narratives Of Emancipation
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom : Including Their Own Narratives Of Emancipation 3.91 avg rating — 575 ratings
27.
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters 4.09 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
29.
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era 4.02 avg rating — 119 ratings
29.
Grant
Grant 4.50 avg rating — 42,006 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
31.
When the Emperor Was Divine
When the Emperor Was Divine 3.81 avg rating — 29,658 ratings
33.
Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
33.
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 4.09 avg rating — 338 ratings
35.
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America 4.35 avg rating — 598 ratings
36.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War 4.04 avg rating — 550 ratings
36.
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States 4.03 avg rating — 2,049 ratings
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Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism, And Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War
Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism, And Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
38.
American Slavery, American Freedom
American Slavery, American Freedom 4.12 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
40.
Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
40.
The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
42.
Slave Life in Georgia
Slave Life in Georgia 4.64 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire
The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
44.
What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy
What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 4.16 avg rating — 1,693 ratings
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Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters
Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters 3.01 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap 4.47 avg rating — 2,300 ratings
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Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War
Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists 4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
51.
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution 4.15 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War 4.01 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, Or, the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada.
A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, Or, the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America 4.46 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen 4.13 avg rating — 281 ratings
56.
Black Folk Here and There: An Essay in History and Anthropology
Black Folk Here and There: An Essay in History and Anthropology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
57.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 4.35 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America 4.33 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Ida: A Sword Among Lions 4.27 avg rating — 947 ratings
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made 4.03 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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The Union War
The Union War 3.75 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 4.14 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I
The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I 4.15 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings 4.53 avg rating — 53 ratings
65.
The Civil War: A Narrative
The Civil War: A Narrative 4.53 avg rating — 8,028 ratings
66.
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 4.03 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
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Nat Turner
Nat Turner 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings