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
A Lesson Before Dying
Crime
All American Boys
An American Marriage
Fantasy
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Non-Fiction
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
Young Adult
Bud, Not Buddy
Non-Fiction
Caste
Contemporary Fiction
Caucasia
Mystery
Clockers
Literary Fiction
Come and Get It
Non-Fiction
Country of My Skull
Non-Fiction
Cry, the Beloved Country
Young Adult
Dear Martin
Comedy
Disorientation
Literary Fiction
Everything I Never Told You
Fantasy
Fledgling
Non-Fiction
Friday Night Lights
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Non-Fiction
Hillbilly Elegy
Literary Fiction
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Comedy
How to Dodge a Cannonball
Non-Fiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Historical Fiction
Jazz
Literary Fiction
Leave the World Behind
Young Adult
Long Way Down
Luster
Young Adult
Maniac Magee
Memoir
Minor Feelings
Non-Fiction
Mumbo Jumbo
Literary Fiction
Native Son
Contemporary Fiction
On Beauty
Young Adult
On the Come Up
Literary Fiction
Open Water
Literary Fiction
Passing
Non-Fiction
The New Jim Crow
Historical Fiction
The Nickel Boys
Literary Fiction
The Night Watchman
Literary Fiction
The Other Black Girl
Science Fiction
The Parable of the Sower
Non-Fiction
The Personal Librarian
Memoir
The Radium Girls
Non-Fiction
The Round House
Contemporary Fiction
The Secret Life of Bees
Non-Fiction
The Secret River
Literary Fiction
The Sellout
Non-Fiction
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Memoir
The Souls of Black Folk
Non-Fiction
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Historical Fiction
The Unbroken
Non-Fiction
The Underground Railroad
Literary Fiction
The Vanishing Half
Non-Fiction
The Warmth of Other Suns
Fantasy
The Water Dancer
The Weight of Blood
Literary Fiction
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Literary Fiction
Things Fall Apart
Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mystery