The Door of No Return
Kwame Alexander
2021 · 2022 edition
418 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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For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts A Love Letter to Women of Color
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
2021 · 2022 edition
272 pages
What White People Can Do Next From Allyship to Coalition
Emma Dabiri
Published 2021
158 pages
Wake The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez
Published 2021
208 pages
Robert E. Lee and Me A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
Ty Seidule
2021 · 2022 edition
304 pages
The Fortune Men A novel
Nadifa Mohamed
2021 · 2022 edition
320 pages
Run
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
Published 2021
152 pages
Every Day is a Gift A Memoir
Tammy Duckworth
Published 2021
275 pages
Freedom
Sebastian Junger
Published 2021
160 pages
On Freedom Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson
Published 2021
288 pages
Speak, Okinawa A Memoir
Elizabeth Miki Brina
Published 2021
304 pages
We Are Bellingcat Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
Eliot Higgins
Published 2021
272 pages
Black Birds in the Sky The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert
Published 2021
216 pages
Brutal Kunnin
Mike Brooks
Published 2021
288 pages
San Fransicko Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Michael Shellenberger
Published 2021
395 pages
Consumed On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism and the Need for Collective Change
Aja Barber
Published 2021
288 pages
My Broken Language A Memoir
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Published 2021
336 pages
Against White Feminism Notes on Disruption
Rafia Zakaria
Published 2021
224 pages
The Man Who Lived Underground A Novel
Richard Wright - undifferentiated
2021 · 2022 edition
240 pages
The Ruin of All Witches Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm Gaskill
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
Rifqa
Mohammed El-Kurd
Published 2021
97 pages
Everybody A Book about Freedom
Olivia Laing
Published 2021
272 pages
The Last Emperor of Mexico The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke who Created a Kingdom in the New World
Edward Shawcross
Published 2021
324 pages
Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
Michael Knowles
2021 · 2022 edition
362 pages