The Greatest Books of All Time on Race

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17120 Smoke Kings Jahmal Mayfield 2024 Unknown Unknown
17120 John Lewis David Greenberg 2024 Unknown English
17120 Madness Antonia Hylton 2024 Unknown English
17120 Stolen Pride Arlie Russell Hochschild 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Swans Of Harlem Karen Valby 2024 Unknown English
17120 Undivided Hahrie Han 2024 Unknown English
17120 Victim Andrew Boryga 2024 Unknown English
17120 Everything We Never Had Randy Ribay 2024 Unknown English
17120 Ours Phillip B. Williams 2024 Unknown English
17120 54 Miles Leonard Pitts Jr. 2024 American English
17120 The Queen Of Sugar Hill ReShonda Tate 2024 Unknown English
17120 Gather Me Glory Edim 2024 Unknown English
17120 Sharks Don't Sink Jasmin Graham 2024 Unknown English
17120 Slaveroad John Edgar Wideman 2024 American English
17120 The Limits Nell Freudenberger 2024 American English
17120 His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham 2020 American English
17120 Soil Camille T. Dungy 2023 Unknown English
17120 No Church In The Wild Murray Middleton 2015 Unknown English
17120 Guide Me Home Attica Locke 2024 American English
17120 No Right To An Honest Living Jacqueline Jones 2023 Unknown English
17120 Another Word For Love Carvell Wallace 2024 Unknown English
17120 Sky Full Of Elephants Cebo Campbell 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Barn Wright Thompson 2024 Unknown English
17120 Devil Is Fine John Vercher 2024 Unknown Unknown
17120 Lessons For Survival Emily Raboteau 2024 Unknown English
17120 My Year Of Meat Ruth Ozeki 1998 American English
17120 Revolutionary Acts Jason Okundaye 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Last White Man Mohsin Hamid 2022 Pakistani English
17120 We Refuse Kellie Carter Jackson 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Fetishist Katherine Min 2024 Unknown English
17120 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 2021 British English
17120 The Spoiled Heart Sunjeev Sahota 2024 Unknown English
17120 Crooked Seeds Karen Jennings 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Reckoning Robin Blackburn 2024 Unknown English
17120 Systemic Layal Liverpool 2024 Unknown English
17120 Frantz Fanon David Macey 2001 Unknown English
17120 The Odyssey Of Phillis Wheatley David Waldstreicher 2023 Unknown English
17120 Up Home Ruth J. Simmons 2023 Unknown English
17120 You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live Paul Kix 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Unseen Truth Sarah Lewis 2024 Unknown English
17120 Abolition Angela Davis 2022 American English
17120 Black Women Taught Us Jenn M. Jackson 2024 Unknown English
17120 Loving Corrections adrienne maree brown 2024 Unknown English
17120 Night Flyer Tiya Miles 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Rise And Fall Of The Second American Republic Manisha Sinha 2024 Unknown English
17120 Wake Up America Keisha N. Blain 2024 Unknown English
17120 1666 Lora Chilton 2024 Unknown English
17120 Women's Liberation And The African Freedom Struggle Thomas Sankara 1990 Burkinabé French
17120 I Write What I Like Steve Biko 1978 South African English
17120 Stokely Speaks Stokely Carmichael 1971 American English
17120 Re Creating Ourselves Molara Ogundipe-Leslie 1994 Nigerian English
17120 Black Meme Legacy Russell 2024 Unknown English
17120 A Devil Went Down To Georgia Deb Miller Landau 2024 Unknown English
17120 Teaching To Transgress bell hooks 1994 American English
17120 Four Treasures Of The Sky Jenny Tinghui Zhang 2022 Unknown English
17120 All American Boys Jason Reynolds 2015 American English
17120 Baseball's Great Experiment Jules Tygiel 1983 American English
17120 Days Of Grace Arnold Rampersad, Arthur Ashe 1993 American English
17120 Only The Ball Was White Robert Peterson 1970 Unknown English
17120 We Have Never Been Woke Musa Al-Gharbi 2024 Unknown English
17120 So To Speak Terrance Hayes 2024 American English
17120 All Boys Aren’t Blue George Johnson 2020 American English
17120 Season Of The Swamp Yuri Herrera 2022 Unknown English
17120 Savings And Trust Justene Hill Edwards 2024 Unknown English
17120 Don't Call Us Dead Danez Smith 2017 American English
17120 The Loneliest Americans Jay Caspian Kang 2021 American English
17120 Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 2021 American English
17120 The Beautiful Struggle Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 American English
17120 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
17120 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17120 King Of The World David Remnick 1998 American English
17120 By The Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle 2024 Unknown English
17120 All Soul's Rising Madison Smartt Bell 1995 American English
17120 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
17120 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
17120 Black Friend Ziwe 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts Gregg Hecimovich 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Glint Of Light Clarence Major 2023 Unknown Unknown
17120 Up Home Ruth J. Simmons 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Great White Bard Farah Karim‑Cooper 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa Stephen Buoro 2023 Unknown English
17120 So To Speak Terrance Hayes 2023 American English
17120 The Lost Sons Of Omaha Joe Sexton 2023 Unknown English
17120 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Late Americans Brandon Taylor 2023 American English
17120 Biting The Hand Julia Lee 2023 Unknown English
17120 Go Back And Get It Dionne Ford 2023 Unknown English
17120 Benjamin Banneker And Us Rachel Jamison Webster 2023 Unknown English
17120 Spoken Word Joshua Bennett 2023 Unknown English
17120 An Autobiography Of Skin Lakiesha Carr 2023 Unknown English
17120 Chrome Valley Mahogany L. Browne 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 Unknown English
17120 Holler, Child Latoya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17120 Mott Street Ava Chin 2023 Unknown English
17120 Owner Of A Lonely Heart Beth Nguyen 2023 Unknown English
17120 Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal 2023 Unknown English
17120 To Free The Captives Tracy K. Smith 2023 Unknown English
17120 Flee North Scott Shane 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts Gregg Hecimovich 2023 Unknown English
17120 Althea Sally H. Jacobs 2023 Unknown English
17120 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17120 Saying It Loud Mark Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
17120 Small Great Things Jodi Picoult 2016 American English
17120 The In Betweens Davon Loeb 2023 Unknown English
17120 Company Shannon Sanders 2023 Unknown English
17120 A Country You Can Leave Asale Angel-Ajani 2023 Unknown English
17120 Blended Sharon M. Draper 2018 American English
17120 American Spy Lauren Wilkinson 2019 Unknown English
17120 Alive At The End Of The World Saeed Jones 2022 American English
17120 Angel & Hannah Ishle Park 2021 Unknown English
17120 Those We Thought We Knew David Joy 2023 American English
17120 Maya Angelou Maya Angelou 1994 American Unknown
17120 Just Like You Nick Hornby 2020 British English
17120 Another Day In The Death Of America Gary Younge 2016 British English
17120 Ordinary Light Tracy K. Smith 2015 American English
17120 The Dark Enlightenment Nick Land 2012 British English
17120 Blue Hour Tiffany Clarke Harrison 2023 American English
17120 Futureface Alex Wagner 2018 American English
17120 In The Shadow Of Statues Mitch Landrieu 2018 American English