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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

190 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
fiction classics literary reflective medium-paced
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

383 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

152 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

224 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

496 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
nonfiction autobiography history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

389 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

219 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula

Toni Morrison

174 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

345 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0raylovie's review
fiction classics dystopian literary challenging dark tense medium-paced