Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays

10 best books like Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (James Baldwin): The Souls of Black Folk, Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, The Guide for the Perplexed, The Gay Science, Poetry and Prose, Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, Black Is the New White, The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto, The Negro Problem

The Souls of Black Folk

Author

W.E.B. Du Bois

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...

Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

Author	Flannery O'Connor
ISBN	0940450372

In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in...

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Author	Audre Lorde
ISBN	0241339723

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with...

The Guide for the Perplexed

Author	Maimonides
ISBN	0486203514

This is the full, unabridged text of one of the greatest philosophic works of all time. Written by a 12th- century thinker who was equally active as an original philosopher and as a Biblical and Talmudic scholar, it is both a classic of great historical importance and a work of living significance today.
The...

The Gay Science

Author	Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN	0394719859

If you read Nietzsche while not in the midst of some variety of emo existential crisis, Nietzsche is hilarious and insightful. If, however, you choose to read Nietzsche in high school in order to be counter-culture, odds are good Nietzsche will temporarily turn you into a horrible, pompous ass. Nietzsche...

Poetry and Prose

Author	Walt Whitman
ISBN	1883011353

Started on the expanded 530 page edition (1891-92) of "Leaves of Grass," the so called deathbed version. Reading as a periodic alternative to prose, this should keep me busy for a month or more. I had finished 1855 edition a few years ago, which is exquisite. His main device is the catalog. He inventories...

Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless

Author

Greta Christina

Why are atheists angry?

Is it because they're selfish, joyless, lacking in meaning, and alienated from God?

Or is it because they have legitimate reasons to be angry -- and are ready to do something about it?

Armed with passionate outrage, absurdist humor, and calm intelligence,...

Black Is the New White

Author	Paul Mooney
ISBN	1416587950

OTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES. PAUL MOONEY TELLS THE TRUTH. For more than forty years, whether writing for Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country, Paul Mooney has been provocative, incisive... and absolutely hilarious. His comedy has always...

The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto

Author	Tavis Smiley
ISBN	1401940633

Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor. Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley...

The Negro Problem

Author	Booker T. Washington
ISBN	1406819727

This is a noteworthy assembly of essays written by a collection of important leaders & scholars about the condition of Black Americans. Written at an important historical crossroad in Black American history, a few generations after slavery but facing a new 20th Century while Blacks remained...

Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

Author	Nathan McCall
ISBN	0679740708

Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler tells the story of McCall's childhood in a predominantly black neighborhood, an area prone to gang-related activities. The book is set in the late-1900s during McCall's teenage years, when he and his friends were transitioning from naive youth to gangsters....

Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars

Author

Sikivu Hutchinson

The word atheism elicits shock, dread, anger, and revulsion among most African Americans. They view atheism as "amoral," heresy, and race betrayal. Historically, the Black Church was a leading force in the fight for racial justice. Today, many black religious leaders have aligned themselves with...