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  • John Ernest The best books about early African American community activism Book cover of The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century Book cover of The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States Book cover of More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 Book cover of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Book cover of The Underground Rail Road
  • Hollis Robbins The best books on Black poetry Book cover of Selected Poems Book cover of Native Guard Book cover of African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song: A Library of America Anthology Book cover of Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry Book cover of Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
  • Merrill Cole The best queer theory books to gain a working understanding of the field Book cover of Epistemology of the Closet Book cover of Beyond Sexuality Book cover of Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism Book cover of Aberrations in Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique Book cover of Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
  • Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis The best books for inspiring lifelong learning Book cover of Lessons from Plants Book cover of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Book cover of Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature Book cover of Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom Book cover of Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color
  • Zachary Petit The best books to read if you want to learn how to write nonfiction like a motherfu*ker Book cover of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Book cover of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Book cover of How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir Book cover of Detroit: An American Autopsy Book cover of The Orchid Thief
  • Ran Walker The best collections of microfiction for those with limited time to read Book cover of Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories Book cover of Without a Net Book cover of Briefs Book cover of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Book cover of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
  • Reginald (Reggie) L. Reed Jr. The best books to promote the power of human healing Book cover of Heavy: An American Memoir Book cover of Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Book cover of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of Damaged but Not Destroyed: From Trauma to Triumph
  • Bobi Gentry Goodwin The best books that will leave your heart, mind, and spirit inspired Book cover of Woman Evolve: Break Up with Your Fears and Revolutionize Your Life Book cover of 72 Hour Hold Book cover of Feeding the Soul: Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom Book cover of Letter to My Daughter Book cover of Esther
  • Anna Malaika Tubbs The best books on Black motherhood Book cover of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood Book cover of Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Book cover of Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood Book cover of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines Book cover of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
  • Amanda Stern The best books to help you understand mental anguish from inside a body in distress Book cover of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Book cover of Heavy: An American Memoir Book cover of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays Book cover of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Book cover of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
  • Douglas Cole The best books for your journey as a drifter Book cover of Situationist International Anthology Book cover of The Country between Us Book cover of The Flowers of Evil Book cover of Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems Book cover of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
  • Elizabeth Brown The best children’s books about writers Book cover of Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks Book cover of Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl Book cover of Rise! From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou Book cover of Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People Book cover of 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and the Red Wheelbarrow
  • Noreen Nanja The best dual-timeline romance books Book cover of People We Meet on Vacation Book cover of Love and Other Words Book cover of Seven Days in June Book cover of Slow Dance Book cover of Every Summer After
  • Jonathan Shandell The best books about Black culture and history in the Civil Rights era Book cover of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Book cover of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical Book cover of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy Book cover of Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy Book cover of Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance
  • Hannah Howard The best books that celebrate food Book cover of Crying in H Mart Book cover of Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Book cover of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Book cover of Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India Book cover of Heavy: An American Memoir
  • Olatunde Osinaike The best contemporary poetry books revisiting music Book cover of I'm Always so Serious Book cover of Mausoleum of Flowers Book cover of PlayHouse: Poems Book cover of Imperial Liquor: Poems Book cover of neckbone: visual verses
  • Jane Clarke The best books to make you fall in love with nature poetry Book cover of Field Days: An Anthology of Poetry Book cover of Earth Shattering: Ecopoems Book cover of Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology Book cover of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Book cover of Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse
  • Mecca Jamilah Sullivan The best books about LGBTQ+ folks of color getting free Book cover of Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography Book cover of Queer African Reader Book cover of We the Animals Book cover of The Complete Works of Pat Parker Book cover of Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
  • Kenya Moss-Dyme The best horror collections that deliver the most bang for the bite Book cover of Night Shift Book cover of Sycorax's Daughters Book cover of The Savage B's: A Tribute to B-Horror Book cover of Accursed: A Horror Anthology Book cover of Monster Brawl!
  • Marcus Kliewer The best books that will make you want to sleep with the lights on Book cover of A Short Stay in Hell Book cover of Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror Book cover of I'm Thinking of Ending Things Book cover of Your Shadow Half Remains Book cover of House of Leaves
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