Best Race Books

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X 1965 466 pages

4.36

200k+ ratings

Biography

History

Memoir

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson 2014 336 pages

4.63

200k+ ratings

Memoir

Social Justice

Race

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Martin Luther King Jr. 1986 400 pages

4.34

23k+ ratings

Biography

History

Autobiography

America's Original Sin

Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

by Jim Wallis 2016 238 pages

4.08

1k+ ratings

Race

History

Anti Racist

Learning from the Germans

Race and the Memory of Evil

by Susan Neiman 2019 434 pages

4.22

1k+ ratings

History

Politics

Philosophy

The Beautiful Community

Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best

by Irwyn L. Ince Jr. 2020 176 pages

4.23

500+ ratings

Theology

Christian

Race

"They Take Our Jobs!"

And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

by Aviva Chomsky 2007 264 pages

4.06

500+ ratings

Politics

History

Economics

Between Barack and a Hard Place

Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

by Tim Wise 2009 159 pages

4.15

500+ ratings

Race

Politics

Anti Racist

The Trouble with Diversity

How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

by Walter Benn Michaels 2006 256 pages

3.60

500+ ratings

Politics

Sociology

Race

Black Magic

What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph

by Chad Sanders 2021 287 pages

4.33

100+ ratings

Race

Leadership

History

In Search of The Color Purple

The Story of an American Masterpiece

by Salamishah Tillet 2021 224 pages

4.22

100+ ratings

History

Memoir

Biography

Decolonial Daughter

Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son

by Lesley-Ann Brown 2018 231 pages

4.12

50+ ratings

Memoir

Race

Essays