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Know My Name: A Memoir

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I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

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Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our

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Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity

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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

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Lean Out: The Truth about Women, Power, and the Workplace

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Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

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Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger

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Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the

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Men Explain Things To Me

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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

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My Beloved World

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My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and

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Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”

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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

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“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion

A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present

A Room of One’s Own

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

Afropean: Notes From Black Europe

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

All About Love: New Visions

Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World

American Savage: Insights, Slights and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love and Politics

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture – and What We Can Do about It

Bad Feminist: Essays

Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

Between the World and Me

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Black and British: A Forgotten History

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley

Brown Girl Dreaming

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News

Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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