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Ta-Nehisi Coates' List of Recommended Books

Coates sat down with New York Times Magazine and ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture last year. You can watch the full interview at the top of the post. During the course of the hour-long talk, Coates mentioned the books below, in the hopes, he says, that "folks who read" Between the World and Me "will read this book, and then go read a ton of other books."
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The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
The Fire Next Time
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James Baldwin
The Night of the Gun (David Carr)
The Night of the Gun
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David Carr
The Half Has Never Been Told (Edward E. Baptist)
The Half Has Never Been Told
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Edward E. Baptist
Battle Cry of Freedom (James M. McPherson)
Battle Cry of Freedom
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James M. McPherson
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Arnold R. Hirsch)
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
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Arnold R. Hirsch
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Beryl Satter)
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
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Beryl Satter
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America (Wil Haywood)
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
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Wil Haywood
American Slavery, American Freedom (Edmund S. Morgan)
American Slavery, American Freedom
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Edmund S. Morgan
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Karen E Fields, Barbara J Fields)
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
9
Karen E Fields, Barbara J Fields
When and Where I Enter (Paula Giddings)
When and Where I Enter
10
Paula Giddings
Ida: A Sword Among Lions (Paula J.Giddings)
Ida: A Sword Among Lions
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Paula J.Giddings
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Thavolia Glymph)
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
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Thavolia Glymph
Baldwin: Collected Essays (James Baldwin)
Baldwin: Collected Essays
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James Baldwin
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