#BlackLivesMatter Reading List

1.
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 β€” 115,038 ratings
2.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating β€” 357,356 ratings
3.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating β€” 285,155 ratings
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating β€” 198,719 ratings
5.
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating β€” 115,129 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating β€” 737,134 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating β€” 986,285 ratings
8.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 476,905 ratings
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption 4.63 avg rating β€” 254,470 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating β€” 786,989 ratings
11.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating β€” 131,986 ratings
12.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating β€” 44,282 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating β€” 401,457 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 β€” 113,274 ratings
15.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating β€” 377,755 ratings
16.
March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating β€” 56,869 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating β€” 33,014 ratings
18.
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating β€” 123,125 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating β€” 103,281 ratings
20.
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Letter from the Birmingham Jail 4.72 avg rating β€” 8,436 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating β€” 55,303 ratings
22.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating β€” 163,543 ratings
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating β€” 69,180 ratings
24.
Race Matters
Race Matters 4.15 avg rating β€” 11,892 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating β€” 18,905 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating β€” 491 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating β€” 28,732 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating β€” 568,903 ratings
29.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating β€” 258,267 ratings
30.
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 β€” 7,034 ratings
31.
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating β€” 29,686 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 β€” 5,505 ratings
33.
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Killing Rage: Ending Racism 4.35 avg rating β€” 2,854 ratings
34.
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying 3.98 avg rating β€” 63,053 ratings
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The Ways of White Folks
The Ways of White Folks 4.46 avg rating β€” 5,397 ratings
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces 4.32 avg rating β€” 3,972 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.34 avg rating β€” 23,717 ratings
38.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography 4.11 avg rating β€” 35,598 ratings
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation 4.05 avg rating β€” 375 ratings
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And Still I Rise
And Still I Rise 4.39 avg rating β€” 10,582 ratings
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Cane
Cane 3.82 avg rating β€” 11,323 ratings
42.
The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback 4.33 avg rating β€” 3,197 ratings
43.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating β€” 433,267 ratings
44.
Buck: A Memoir
Buck: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating β€” 3,060 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating β€” 72,715 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating β€” 44,176 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating β€” 75,631 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating β€” 3,602 ratings
48.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating β€” 123,919 ratings
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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 β€” 37,880 ratings
51.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed 4.30 avg rating β€” 37,856 ratings
52.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating β€” 288,059 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating β€” 112,005 ratings
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League 4.14 avg rating β€” 28,255 ratings
55.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating β€” 229,603 ratings
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 4.07 avg rating β€” 6,210 ratings
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 4.08 avg rating β€” 10,969 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating β€” 3,391 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating β€” 156,118 ratings
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree 4.50 avg rating β€” 6,060 ratings
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Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating β€” 3,199 ratings
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Two (March, #2) 4.49 avg rating β€” 28,882 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
March: Book Three (March, #3) 4.64 avg rating β€” 21,409 ratings
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They Come in All Colors
They Come in All Colors 3.45 avg rating β€” 334 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,229 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating β€” 918 ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.32 avg rating β€” 7,355 ratings
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Works of Booker T. Washington. The Future of the American Negro, The Negro Problem, Up from Slavery: an Autobiography, Heroes in Black Skins, Addresses ... of Carl Schurz, Atlanta Compromise
Works of Booker T. Washington. The Future of the American Negro, The Negro Problem, Up from Slavery: an Autobiography, Heroes in Black Skins, Addresses ... of Carl Schurz, Atlanta Compromise 3.96 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
69.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,658 ratings
70.
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today 4.32 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating β€” 11,515 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating β€” 39,721 ratings
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Jubilee
Jubilee 4.37 avg rating β€” 6,826 ratings
74.
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating β€” 23,277 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating β€” 25,283 ratings
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 4.38 avg rating β€” 99,859 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating β€” 27,659 ratings
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Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965
Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965 4.30 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place 4.20 avg rating β€” 21,533 ratings
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Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy 3.90 avg rating β€” 309 ratings
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Once Upon a Lie
Once Upon a Lie 4.17 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
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#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence
#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating β€” 95 ratings
83.
Black Looks: Race and Representation
Black Looks: Race and Representation 4.36 avg rating β€” 2,424 ratings
84.
The Secret Life of Winnie Cox
The Secret Life of Winnie Cox 3.95 avg rating β€” 820 ratings
85.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating β€” 239,351 ratings
86.
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the Nation 3.86 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
87.
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil 4.30 avg rating β€” 948 ratings
88.
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature 4.36 avg rating β€” 2,716 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating β€” 170,202 ratings
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing 4.49 avg rating β€” 2,243 ratings
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Freedom's Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration
Freedom's Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy 4.20 avg rating β€” 1,574 ratings
93.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating β€” 56,856 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating β€” 118,327 ratings
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
by: Tim Wise
4.10 avg rating β€” 5,369 ratings
96.
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1) 4.02 avg rating β€” 37,253 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 β€” 2,074 ratings
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All American Boys
All American Boys 4.29 avg rating β€” 49,112 ratings
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Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century 3.98 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap 4.21 avg rating β€” 7,582 ratings
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