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Showing 137 results from 1980 to 2025 with a minimum of 1,000 ratings.
Matched genres: Memoir, Race

Title Year Ratings Rating
March
Graphic Novels , Nonfiction , History , Comics , Memoir , Biography , Race
John Lewis
2016 1.6K 4.69
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , True Crime , Social Justice , Race
Anthony Ray Hinton
2018 71.0K 4.65
Just Mercy
Nonfiction , Memoir , Social Justice , Race , Audiobook , Politics , History
Bryan Stevenson
2014 248.6K 4.63
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Nonfiction , History , Memoir , Biography , Politics , Race , Social Justice
John Lewis
1999 3.7K 4.60
Assata: An Autobiography
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , History , Race , Feminism , Politics
Assata Shakur
2001 29.0K 4.59
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Nonfiction , Essays , Music , History , Race , Audiobook , Memoir
Hanif Abdurraqib
2021 9.4K 4.59
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Nonfiction , Essays , Music , Poetry , Memoir , Race , Audiobook
Hanif Abdurraqib
2017 17.1K 4.56
Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
Nonfiction , Feminism , Biography , Africa , Memoir , Somalia , Race
Hibo Wardere
2016 1.0K 4.55
The Fire Next Time
Nonfiction , Classics , Essays , Race , History , Politics , Memoir
James Baldwin
1992 110.9K 4.55
The Message
Nonfiction , Essays , Politics , History , Audiobook , Memoir , Race
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2024 25.9K 4.54
Ordinary Notes
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Poetry , Race , History , Politics
Christina Sharpe
2023 1.4K 4.54
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Nonfiction , History , Race , Politics , Memoir , Biography , Audiobook
Akala
2018 21.3K 4.54
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Nonfiction , Memoir , Race , Social Justice , Politics , Audiobook , Anti Racist
Patrisse Cullors
2018 25.0K 4.50
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Nonfiction , Memoir , Race , Social Justice , Politics , Audiobook , Anti Racist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
2018 25.0K 4.50
No Name in the Street
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , History , Race , Classics , African American
James Baldwin
2007 4.2K 4.49
Revolutionary Suicide
Nonfiction , History , Politics , Race , Biography , Memoir , Theory
Huey P. Newton
1995 6.5K 4.48
Heavy
Memoir , Nonfiction , Race , Audiobook , Biography , Biography Memoir , Anti Racist
Kiese Laymon
2018 42.8K 4.47
Finna
Poetry , Race , Nonfiction , Audiobook , African American , Social Justice , Memoir
Nate Marshall
2020 2.3K 4.47
Unbought And Unbossed
Nonfiction , Memoir , Politics , History , Feminism , Biography , Race
Shirley Chisholm
1970 1.4K 4.45
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Nonfiction , Memoir , Medicine , Science , Audiobook , Race , Medical
Uché Blackstock
2024 3.6K 4.45
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Memoir , Graphic Novels , Nonfiction , Race , Comics , Biography , Biography Memoir
Mira Jacob
2019 25.8K 4.45
An Autobiography
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Biography , History , Politics , Race
Angela Y. Davis
2013 10.2K 4.44
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
Nonfiction , Feminism , Memoir , Audiobook , Race , Essays , Queer
Sesali Bowen
2021 2.3K 4.44
Thick: And Other Essays
Nonfiction , Essays , Feminism , Race , Memoir , Social Justice , Sociology
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2019 17.9K 4.43
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
History , Nonfiction , True Crime , Memoir , Race , African American , Crime
Mamie Till-Mobley
2004 1.2K 4.43
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Race , History , Politics , Social Justice
Albert Woodfox
2019 3.9K 4.42
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Nonfiction , Biography , Politics , Race , Memoir , Audiobook , Social Justice
Eli Saslow
2018 10.4K 4.42
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Nonfiction , True Crime , History , Crime , Race , Memoir , Journalism
Jerry Mitchell
2020 2.0K 4.42
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , Race , Social Justice , Biography
Amber Ruffin
2021 21.5K 4.42
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
Nonfiction , Politics , Audiobook , History , Race , Biography , Memoir
Candace Owens
2020 14.5K 4.41
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Poetry , Music , Nonfiction , African American , Biography , Memoir , Race
Tupac Shakur
1999 12.7K 4.41
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Poetry , Music , Nonfiction , African American , Biography , Memoir , Race
Tupac Shakur
1999 12.7K 4.41
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Queer , LGBT , Race , Classics
Audre Lorde
1982 22.7K 4.40
Between the World and Me
Nonfiction , Memoir , Race , Audiobook , History , Social Justice , Biography
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015 351.1K 4.40
The World Record Book of Racist Stories
Nonfiction , Humor , Audiobook , Memoir , Race , Essays , Social Justice
Amber Ruffin
2022 5.6K 4.39
Nigger: An Autobiography
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Memoir , Race , African American , Autobiography
Dick Gregory
1971 9.2K 4.39
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Nonfiction , Essays , Politics , Social Justice , Memoir , Race , Audiobook
Valeria Luiselli
2017 15.9K 4.39
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Nonfiction , Feminism , Race , Essays , Memoir , Anti Racist , Social Justice
Brittney Cooper
2018 13.6K 4.38
The Undocumented Americans
Nonfiction , Memoir , Politics , Audiobook , Social Justice , Race , Essays
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2020 24.1K 4.38
My Bondage and My Freedom
History , Nonfiction , Biography , Classics , Memoir , Autobiography , Race
Frederick Douglass
2003 12.1K 4.38
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Nonfiction , Memoir , Race , Audiobook , Social Justice , Anti Racist , Biography
Austin Channing Brown
2018 71.7K 4.38
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery
Nonfiction , Memoir , Mental Health , Audiobook , Autobiography , Biography , Race
David Harewood
2021 1.4K 4.37
Nobody Knows My Name
Nonfiction , Essays , Race , Classics , History , African American , Memoir
James Baldwin
1992 4.5K 4.37
Notes of a Native Son
Nonfiction , Essays , Classics , Race , Memoir , History , Politics
James Baldwin
1984 22.6K 4.37
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Nonfiction , Biography , History , Memoir , Autobiography , Race , Classics
Malcolm X
2015 280.4K 4.37
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
Nonfiction , Memoir , Race , Politics , Social Justice , African American , Audiobook
Mychal Denzel Smith
2016 2.4K 4.35
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, JR.
Biography , Nonfiction , History , Autobiography , Politics , Memoir , Race
Clayborne Carson
1986 23.4K 4.34
Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
Nonfiction , History , Politics , Memoir , Race , Audiobook , Biography
John Lewis
2012 6.2K 4.34
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography , Nonfiction , History , Autobiography , Politics , Memoir , Race
Martin Luther King Jr.
2001 23.4K 4.34
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
Memoir , Nonfiction , Race , Audiobook , Social Justice , Biography Memoir , Asian Literature
Julia Lee
2023 1.8K 4.33