20 Books Recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates - Leafmarks

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

Postwar by Tony Judt

Battlecry of Freedom by James McPherson

The Thirty Years War by C.V.Wedgwood

American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula Giddings

Sweet Soul Music by Peter Gurulnick

The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life, His Own by David Carr

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 by Arnold R. Hirsch

Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph

Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America by Beryl Satter

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings

Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komanyakaa

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood

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Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author and journalist. Coates gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy. Wikipedia

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