My Body
Emily Ratajkowski
Published 2021
256 pages
The most popular oppression & injustice books of 2021
These books are about people denied their freedom or their rights, and those who fought back. Slavery, colonial rule, segregation and persecution are recorded in histories and memoirs and brought to life in novels. They are stories of suffering and of extraordinary courage. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.
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The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris
2021 · 2022 edition
357 pages
The Woman They Could Not Silence
Kate Moore
Published 2021
560 pages
How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith
Published 2021
336 pages
The Sweetness of Water (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel
Nathan Harris
2021 · 2022 edition
368 pages
The 1619 Project A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Published 2021
624 pages
You'll Never Believe what Happened to Lacey Crazy Stories about Racism
Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
Published 2021
215 pages
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
Assembly
Natasha Brown
Published 2021
112 pages
The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers) How Racism Hurts Everyone
Heather McGhee
2021 · 2024 edition
240 pages
I Take My Coffee Black Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
Tyler Merritt
Published 2021
306 pages
Unbound
Tarana Burke
Published 2021
272 pages
The Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Published 2021
272 pages
Jews Don't Count How Identity Politics Failed One Particular Identity
David Baddiel
Published 2021
135 pages
Facing the Mountain (Adapted for Young Readers) A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
Daniel James Brown
2021 · 2023 edition
240 pages
We Do this 'til We Free Us Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
Published 2021
206 pages
Manifesto On Never Giving Up
Bernardine Evaristo
2021 · 2022 edition
191 pages
People Love Dead Jews Reports from a Haunted Present
Dara Horn
2021 · 2022 edition
168 pages
The Transgender Issue An Argument for Justice
Shon Faye
Published 2021
291 pages
Reprieve
James Han Mattson
Published 2021
416 pages
You Are Your Best Thing Vulnerability, Shame Resilience and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
Published 2021
256 pages
All That She Carried The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
Published 2021
416 pages
Empireland How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Sathnam Sanghera
Published 2021
339 pages
Woke Racism How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
John McWhorter
Published 2021
224 pages