#BlackLivesMatter Reading List

101.
The New Negro
The New Negro 4.12 avg rating — 905 ratings
102.
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass 4.25 avg rating — 357 ratings
103.
American Slavery, American Freedom
American Slavery, American Freedom 4.12 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
104.
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
105.
John Brown
John Brown 4.32 avg rating — 748 ratings
105.
We Are Bridges: A Memoir
We Are Bridges: A Memoir 4.03 avg rating — 391 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
108.
Small Great Things
Small Great Things 4.36 avg rating — 423,953 ratings
109.
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 4.51 avg rating — 170 ratings
109.
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating — 19,295 ratings
109.
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 4.56 avg rating — 10,760 ratings
112.
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story 4.61 avg rating — 23,215 ratings
113.
Black Prophetic Fire
Black Prophetic Fire 4.15 avg rating — 375 ratings
114.
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal 3.88 avg rating — 242 ratings
115.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
116.
Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology
Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
117.
The Black Panthers Speak
The Black Panthers Speak 4.41 avg rating — 743 ratings
118.
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America 3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings
119.
The Blood of Emmett Till
The Blood of Emmett Till 4.27 avg rating — 8,800 ratings
120.
Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)
Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series) 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
121.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings
122.
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy 4.38 avg rating — 30,602 ratings
122.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,450 ratings
124.
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
125.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4.38 avg rating — 13,757 ratings
125.
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools 4.35 avg rating — 6,610 ratings
127.
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance 4.44 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
128.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,204 ratings
129.
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution 4.57 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
130.
The Anthology of Rap
The Anthology of Rap 4.19 avg rating — 262 ratings
130.
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 4.47 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
132.
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 36,224 ratings
132.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating — 38,098 ratings
134.
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery 4.24 avg rating — 690 ratings
135.
Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society 4.15 avg rating — 159 ratings
136.
Germany's Black Holocaust: 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!
Germany's Black Holocaust: 1890-1945: The Untold Truth! 4.02 avg rating — 89 ratings
137.
The Future of the Race
The Future of the Race 3.81 avg rating — 231 ratings
137.
"Race," Writing, and Difference
"Race," Writing, and Difference 4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings
139.
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America 3.98 avg rating — 839 ratings
140.
Black in Latin America
Black in Latin America 4.27 avg rating — 290 ratings
141.
Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism 4.26 avg rating — 418 ratings
141.
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
143.
African American Lives
African American Lives 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
144.
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
145.
The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy 4.09 avg rating — 102 ratings
146.
Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past And Present
Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past And Present 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
146.
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader 3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings
146.
God Help the Child
God Help the Child 3.78 avg rating — 31,718 ratings
149.
Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919
Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919 3.86 avg rating — 122 ratings
149.
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird 3.34 avg rating — 30,810 ratings
151.
Waking from the Dream: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Waking from the Dream: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr. 3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings
152.
African American National Biography: 12-Volume Set
African American National Biography: 12-Volume Set 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
153.
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life Of Olaudah Equiano
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life Of Olaudah Equiano 3.78 avg rating — 717 ratings
154.
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,439 ratings
155.
Black Abolitionists
Black Abolitionists 4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings
156.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers 3.95 avg rating — 459 ratings
157.
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It 4.10 avg rating — 324 ratings
158.
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by: Wes Moore
3.87 avg rating — 56,989 ratings
159.
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America 4.32 avg rating — 5,812 ratings
159.
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
159.
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature 4.22 avg rating — 3,230 ratings
162.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor 4.33 avg rating — 30,140 ratings
162.
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees 4.10 avg rating — 1,337,499 ratings
162.
#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating — 95 ratings
162.
A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom
A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
166.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man 3.95 avg rating — 142 ratings
166.
Monster
Monster 3.73 avg rating — 74,194 ratings
166.
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America 4.07 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
166.
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by: Nic Stone
4.33 avg rating — 84,058 ratings
166.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,205 ratings
171.
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins 4.36 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
171.
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism 4.36 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
173.
Anger Is a Gift
Anger Is a Gift really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,395 ratings
173.
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope 4.16 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
175.
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire 4.47 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
176.
Push
Push
by: Sapphire
3.87 avg rating — 58,129 ratings
177.
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
by: Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating — 1,967 ratings
178.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,753 ratings
179.
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century 4.33 avg rating — 153 ratings
180.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,369 ratings
180.
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America 4.17 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
182.
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City 3.74 avg rating — 531 ratings
183.
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
184.
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography 4.42 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
184.
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America 4.30 avg rating — 10,528 ratings
184.
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight 3.68 avg rating — 21,753 ratings
187.
Behold the Dreamers
Behold the Dreamers 3.95 avg rating — 84,453 ratings
188.
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora 4.16 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
189.
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
by: Tim Wise
4.14 avg rating — 1,563 ratings
189.
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer 4.06 avg rating — 116,573 ratings
191.
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America 4.16 avg rating — 704 ratings
191.
Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
by: Matt Ruff
4.01 avg rating — 47,795 ratings
193.
Mama Day
Mama Day 4.19 avg rating — 11,153 ratings
194.
My Escape from Slavery
My Escape from Slavery 4.16 avg rating — 135 ratings
195.
Lucy
Lucy 3.83 avg rating — 13,950 ratings
196.
The Night Ocean
The Night Ocean 3.30 avg rating — 3,059 ratings
197.
Every Day Is for the Thief
Every Day Is for the Thief
by: Teju Cole
3.69 avg rating — 7,750 ratings
197.
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do 3.92 avg rating — 6,020 ratings
199.
Bloodchild and other Stories
Bloodchild and other Stories 4.35 avg rating — 26,126 ratings
199.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,487 ratings
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