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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Diangelo, Robin

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Rothstein, Richard

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

Go Back to Where You Came from: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American by Ali, Wajahat

Go Back to Where You Came from: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

The Kindest Lie by Johnson, Nancy

The Kindest Lie

We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Chang, Jeff

We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Perry, Imani

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

What's Mine and Yours by Coster, Naima

What's Mine and Yours

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Criado Perez, Caroline

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Wilkerson, Isabel

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

A Lesson Before Dying by Gaines, Ernest J.

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

The Laughter by Jha, Sonora

Farewell to Manzanar by Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki

Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by Lewis, John

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

John Lewis, Michael D'Orso

The Book of Unknown Americans by Henríquez, Cristina

The Book of Unknown Americans

Cristina Henríquez

The Vanishing Half by Bennett, Brit

The Vanishing Half

The Other Americans by Lalami, Laila

The Other Americans

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Engaging the World

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Ward, Jesmyn

Sing, Unburied, Sing

The Nickel Boys by Whitehead, Colson

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

So Big by Ferber, Edna

What We Carry: A Memoir by Lang, Maya Shanbhag

What We Carry: A Memoir

Maya Shanbhag Lang

Just as I Am by Tyson, Cicely

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Kendall, Mikki

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Alvarez, Julia

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Kingston, Maxine Hong

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Maxine Hong Kingston

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How + Why

Each of Us a Desert by Oshiro, Mark

Each of Us a Desert

Motherless Brooklyn by Lethem, Jonathan

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

Radiant Fugitives by Ahmed, Nawaaz

Radiant Fugitives

A Neon Darkness by Shippen, Lauren

A Neon Darkness

Animal Wife by Ehrlich, Lara

The 33: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Tobar, Hector

The 33: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Bender, Aimee

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Edie Richter Is Not Alone by Handler, Rebecca

Edie Richter Is Not Alone

Rebecca Handler

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The Grammar

The Shamshine Blind by Pardo, Paz

The Shamshine Blind

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Thunberg, Greta

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Jahren, Hope

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Miodownik, Mark

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Grant, Adam

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility by Weinberger, David

Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility

David Weinberger

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Kean, Sam

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Czerski, Helen

Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life

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