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20 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
20 posts
Where to Start with Barack Obama: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Barack Obama — whether to begin with Dreams from My Father or A Promised Land. A complete reading guide to the 44th US President's books.
Where to Start with Brit Bennett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Brit Bennett — whether to begin with The Vanishing Half or The Mothers. A complete reading guide to the American author.
Where to Start with Harper Lee: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Harper Lee — whether to begin with To Kill a Mockingbird or Go Set a Watchman. A complete reading guide to the American novelist.
Where to Start with Isabel Wilkerson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Isabel Wilkerson — whether to begin with The Warmth of Other Suns, Caste, or both. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Where to Start with Malcolm X: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Malcolm X — how to approach The Autobiography of Malcolm X, one of the most powerful American autobiographies ever written. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Michelle Alexander: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michelle Alexander — how to approach The New Jim Crow, her essential book on mass incarceration and racial caste. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Michelle Obama: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michelle Obama — whether to begin with Becoming or The Light We Carry. A complete reading guide to the former First Lady's books.
Where to Start with Rebecca Skloot: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rebecca Skloot — how to approach The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, her essential work of science and human story. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Roxane Gay: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Roxane Gay — whether to begin with Bad Feminist or Hunger. A complete reading guide to the cultural critic, essayist, and author.
Where to Start with Trevor Noah: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Trevor Noah — how to approach Born a Crime, his essential memoir about growing up in apartheid South Africa. A complete reading guide.
Best African American Literature: Essential Reading List
The best African American literature — from Beloved and Invisible Man to The Color Purple and Song of Solomon. The most essential works in the Black literary tradition.
Best Books About Criminal Justice: Essential Reading on Law and Incarceration
The best books about criminal justice — from The New Jim Crow and In Cold Blood to Caste and Between the World and Me. Race, law, and the American justice system.
Best Books About Identity: Essential Reading List
The best books about identity — from Invisible Man and Middlesex to Americanah and White Teeth. Literature on race, gender, culture, and who we are.
Best Books About Poverty and Inequality: Essential Non-Fiction and Fiction
The best books about poverty and inequality — from The Grapes of Wrath and Shuggie Bain to The Warmth of Other Suns and The New Jim Crow. Essential reading.
Where to Start with Angie Thomas: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Angie Thomas — whether to begin with The Hate U Give, On the Come Up, or Concrete Rose. A complete reading guide to the YA author.
Where to Start with bell hooks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with bell hooks — whether to begin with All About Love, The Will to Change, or Ain't I a Woman. A complete reading guide to the feminist theorist.
Where to Start with Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ta-Nehisi Coates — whether to begin with Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, or The Water Dancer. A complete reading guide.
15 Books Like Born a Crime to Read Next
Loved Born a Crime? These 15 memoirs and narrative non-fiction books share Trevor Noah's combination of personal honesty, humour, political awareness, and hard-won resilience.
Books Like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Science, Race, and the Body as Property
Rebecca Skloot's account of HeLa cells — taken without consent from Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman who died of cancer in 1951, and used in medical research for decades — is the best science book written for general readers and the most important book about medical ethics in recent memory.
Best Books About Race in America: 16 Essential Reads
These 16 books — spanning history, memoir, fiction, and polemic — are the essential reading list for understanding race in America, from slavery to the present day.
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