Race & Justice Books
Books that interrogate race, policing, incarceration, and the architecture of inequality in the United States and beyond.
60 books
Non-Fiction
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Crime
All American Boys
Jason Reynolds
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
Fantasy
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon
Non-Fiction
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
Young Adult
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Non-Fiction
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
Contemporary Fiction
Caucasia
Danzy Senna
Mystery
Clockers
Richard Price
Literary Fiction
Come and Get It
Kiley Reid
Non-Fiction
Country of My Skull
Antjie Krog
Non-Fiction
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Young Adult
Dear Martin
Nic Stone
Comedy
Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh Chou
Literary Fiction
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng
Fantasy
Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler
Non-Fiction
Friday Night Lights
Buzz Bissinger
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Non-Fiction
Hillbilly Elegy
Literary Fiction
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang
Comedy
How to Dodge a Cannonball
Dennard Dayle
Non-Fiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Historical Fiction
Jazz
Toni Morrison
Literary Fiction
Leave the World Behind
Young Adult
Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds
Luster
Young Adult
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Memoir
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
Non-Fiction
Mumbo Jumbo
Ishmael Reed
Literary Fiction
Native Son
Contemporary Fiction
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Young Adult
On the Come Up
Angie Thomas
Literary Fiction
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Literary Fiction
Passing
Nella Larsen
Non-Fiction
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Historical Fiction
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Literary Fiction
The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich
Literary Fiction
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris
Science Fiction
The Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Non-Fiction
The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict
Memoir
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Non-Fiction
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Contemporary Fiction
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Non-Fiction
The Secret River
Kate Grenville
Literary Fiction
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Non-Fiction
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Jeff Hobbs
Memoir
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
Non-Fiction
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis
Historical Fiction
The Unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor
Non-Fiction
The Underground Railroad
Literary Fiction
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Non-Fiction
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
Fantasy
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Weight of Blood
Literary Fiction
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Literary Fiction
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Mystery
