#ReadPOC: List of Nonfiction Books by Authors of Color

1.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating β€” 39,726 ratings
2.
Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!
Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva! 4.10 avg rating β€” 403 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating β€” 131,993 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating β€” 120,284 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€” 568,945 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating β€” 115,140 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€” 7,356 ratings
8.
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries 4.10 avg rating β€” 31,876 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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The Book of Tea: The Classic Work on the Japanese Tea Ceremony and the Value of Beauty
The Book of Tea: The Classic Work on the Japanese Tea Ceremony and the Value of Beauty 3.85 avg rating β€” 16,839 ratings
11.
Half-Breed
Half-Breed 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,948 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating β€” 199,571 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€” 113,286 ratings
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Living for Change
Living for Change 4.19 avg rating β€” 407 ratings
15.
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating β€” 23,280 ratings
16.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 3.74 avg rating β€” 14,418 ratings
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,900 ratings
18.
Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1)
Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1) 4.33 avg rating β€” 2,516 ratings
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From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia 3.96 avg rating β€” 2,558 ratings
20.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating β€” 357,391 ratings
21.
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America 4.24 avg rating β€” 17,335 ratings
22.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating β€” 111,145 ratings
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The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book 4.02 avg rating β€” 9,588 ratings
24.
Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler
Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler 4.60 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
25.
Red Azalea: A Memoir
Red Azalea: A Memoir 3.84 avg rating β€” 10,639 ratings
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,086 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
28.
I Am Malala
I Am Malala 4.16 avg rating β€” 612,703 ratings
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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays 3.83 avg rating β€” 6,109 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating β€” 55,306 ratings
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4.38 avg rating β€” 13,757 ratings
32.
An African in Greenland
An African in Greenland 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,992 ratings
33.
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating β€” 5,475 ratings
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Letters from Burma
Letters from Burma 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,658 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing The Mysteries Of The Human Mind
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing The Mysteries Of The Human Mind 4.27 avg rating β€” 20,282 ratings
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 4.43 avg rating β€” 22,350 ratings
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Tell-Tale Brain: Tales of the Unexpected from Inside Your Mind
Tell-Tale Brain: Tales of the Unexpected from Inside Your Mind 4.15 avg rating β€” 10,815 ratings
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Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction
Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction 3.94 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating β€” 192,415 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating β€” 320,734 ratings
41.
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Capitalism: A Ghost Story 3.94 avg rating β€” 2,964 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating β€” 112,015 ratings
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Anu: The Yo-Yo Years
Anu: The Yo-Yo Years it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
44.
The Mis-Education of the Negro
The Mis-Education of the Negro 4.49 avg rating β€” 9,978 ratings
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions 4.39 avg rating β€” 16,457 ratings
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Anu: The Nomad Years
Anu: The Nomad Years 4.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature
Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature 4.34 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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Los ingrΓ‘vidos
Los ingrΓ‘vidos 3.58 avg rating β€” 6,742 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating β€” 19,433 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating β€” 117,715 ratings
51.
The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif 3.78 avg rating β€” 759 ratings
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Anu: The Raj Years
Anu: The Raj Years 4.36 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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The Art of War
The Art of War
by: Sun Tzu
3.95 avg rating β€” 550,590 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€” 99,860 ratings
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AkΓ©: The Years of Childhood
AkΓ©: The Years of Childhood 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,978 ratings
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PAULA PB
PAULA PB 4.22 avg rating β€” 54,322 ratings
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier 3.99 avg rating β€” 6,936 ratings
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Six Records of a Floating Life
Six Records of a Floating Life 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,809 ratings
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Broken Bangles
Broken Bangles 3.17 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,103 ratings
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The Discovery of India
The Discovery of India 4.09 avg rating β€” 8,511 ratings
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Geisha: A Life
Geisha: A Life 3.93 avg rating β€” 26,804 ratings
63.
Maos Last Dancer
Maos Last Dancer
by: Li Cunxin
4.14 avg rating β€” 32,149 ratings
64.
In Other Words
In Other Words 3.74 avg rating β€” 15,348 ratings
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Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan 4.07 avg rating β€” 121 ratings
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The Diary of Lady Murasaki
The Diary of Lady Murasaki 3.80 avg rating β€” 2,098 ratings
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Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir
Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir 3.53 avg rating β€” 707 ratings
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Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days
Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days 4.26 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
69.
Wave
Wave 3.79 avg rating β€” 22,485 ratings
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Faces and Masks
Faces and Masks 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,357 ratings
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating β€” 8,625 ratings
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
My Invented Country: A Memoir 3.89 avg rating β€” 11,986 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating β€” 29,691 ratings
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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,245 ratings
75.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating β€” 285,183 ratings
76.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Empress Dowager Cixi 3.91 avg rating β€” 10,431 ratings
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Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen 3.92 avg rating β€” 1,954 ratings
78.
The Laws of Medicine
The Laws of Medicine 4.06 avg rating β€” 5,072 ratings
79.
Walking Free
Walking Free 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,271 ratings
80.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating β€” 44,284 ratings
80.
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves 4.36 avg rating β€” 6,485 ratings
82.
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding 3.96 avg rating β€” 207 ratings
83.
How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture 4.08 avg rating β€” 173 ratings
83.
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays 4.13 avg rating β€” 19,779 ratings
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Handbook of LGBT Elders: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Principles, Practices, and Policies
Handbook of LGBT Elders: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Principles, Practices, and Policies 3.25 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
85.
Black Victorians, Black Victoriana
Black Victorians, Black Victoriana 3.88 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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The Family Law
The Family Law 3.84 avg rating β€” 2,616 ratings
88.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands 3.44 avg rating β€” 1,732 ratings
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To the Stars
To the Stars 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,404 ratings
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack And The Japanese Psyche
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack And The Japanese Psyche 3.91 avg rating β€” 21,849 ratings
91.
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 936 ratings
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I, The Aboriginal / Moon and Rainbow
I, The Aboriginal / Moon and Rainbow really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
93.
Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life 4.32 avg rating β€” 900 ratings
93.
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop 4.11 avg rating β€” 187 ratings
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Growing Up Asian in Australia
Growing Up Asian in Australia 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,205 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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The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking 4.24 avg rating β€” 50,743 ratings
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The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating β€” 3,174 ratings
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating β€” 3,199 ratings
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I, Safiya by Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu (2004-05-03)
I, Safiya by Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu (2004-05-03) 3.71 avg rating β€” 324 ratings
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