A Day in the Life of Abed Salama Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall
2023 · 2024 edition
272 pages
The most popular civil rights books of 2023
Books about civil rights tell how excluded people won equality under the law. Marches, boycotts, court cases and the leaders and foot soldiers behind them are remembered in histories, memoirs and novels. The stories are inspiring, and the struggle they describe is not over. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.
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King
Jonathan Eig, Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long
2023 · 2025 edition
704 pages
Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson
2023 · 2024 edition
320 pages
Opinions
Roxane Gay
Published 2023
286 pages
Black AF History The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot
2023 · 2026 edition
432 pages
Necessary Trouble Growing Up at Midcentury
Drew Gilpin Faust
2023 · 2024 edition
320 pages
Ordinary Notes
Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
Published 2023
392 pages
Natural Right and History
Leo Strauss
2023 · 1953 edition
327 pages
Rikers An Oral History
Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau
Published 2023
464 pages
The Lost Sons of Omaha
Joe Sexton
Published 2023
383 pages
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
Paul Kix
Published 2023
378 pages
Shielded How the Police Became Untouchable
Joanna Schwartz
Published 2023
336 pages
Our Cursed Love
Julie Abe
Published 2023
304 pages
A Most Tolerant Little Town
Rachel Louise Martin
2023 · 2024 edition
384 pages
Built from the Fire The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
Victor Luckerson
2023 · 2024 edition
688 pages
Don't Let Them Bury My Story The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words
Viola Ford Fletcher, Ike Howard
Published 2023
140 pages
Normal Women 900 Years of Making History
Philippa Gregory
2023 · 2024 edition
688 pages
The Humanity Archive Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
Jermaine Fowler
2023 · 2025 edition
448 pages
An Amerikan Family The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Santi Elijah Holley
Published 2023
308 pages
The Kneeling Man My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Leta McCollough Seletzky
Published 2023
304 pages
Abolish the Monarchy
Graham Smith
2023 · 2024 edition
224 pages
The Case for Cancel Culture How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All
Ernest Owens
Published 2023
256 pages
The Bodies Keep Coming Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
Brian H. Williams
Published 2023
260 pages
Politics
Rafael Behr
2023 · 2024 edition
416 pages