The I Index
I Index ★ 98/100
Critics Ratings ★ 96/100
Readers Ratings ★ 99/100
Scholars Ratings N/A
Allow Me to Retort Elie Mystal The New Press
I Index ★ 97/100
Critics Ratings ★ 94/100
Scholars Ratings ★ 96/100
Unbound Tarana Burke Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
I Index ★ 95/100
Critics Ratings ★ 91/100
A Little Devil in America Hanif Abdurraqib Random House
Critics Ratings ★ 93/100
Readers Ratings ★ 97/100
Things I Have Withheld Kei Miller Grove Press
Readers Ratings ★ 92/100
What White People Can Do Next Emma Dabiri Harper Perennial
I Index ★ 94/100
Readers Ratings ★ 94/100
These Precious Days Ann Patchett Harper
I Index ★ 93/100
Scholars Ratings ★ 92/100
A Mind Spread Out Alicia Elliott Melville House
Critics Ratings ★ 88/100
Readers Ratings ★ 98/100
The Sense of Brown (Perverse Modernities José Esteban Muñoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o Duke University Press Books
I Index ★ 92/100
Readers Ratings ★ 88/100
Serious Noticing James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Readers Ratings ★ 87/100
Scholars Ratings ★ 94/100
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Kiese Laymon Scribner
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
Elie Mystal
Things I Have Withheld
Kei Miller
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
Kiese Laymon
Ordinary Notes
Christina Sharpe
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
John Green
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Briona Simone Jones, Sangodare Akinwale, M. Jac...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Simu Liu
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
Sesali Bowen
Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest
Terrion L. Williamson, Jamala Rogers, Leslie Ba...
Serious Face: Essays
Jon Mooallem
Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances
Lucas Mann
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1...
Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd
Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
John Lewis, Andrew Young
Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
Hannah Gadsby
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
Nell Irvin Painter
Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and t...
Savala Nolan
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
Jessamyn Stanley
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
David Sedaris
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
Rafia Zakaria
Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground
Uli Beutter Cohen
NB by J. C.: A Walk through the Times Literary Supplement
James Campbell
A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American S...
Cinelle Barnes, Jaswinder Bolina, Regina N. Bra...
Black Nerd Problems
William Evans, Omar Holmon
The Book Against Death
Elias Canetti, Peter Filkins
Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs ...
Kathleen Dean Moore
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gene...
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubl...
Azar Nafisi
Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
Jonny Sun
Thin Skin: Essays
Jenn Shapland
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Mo...
Tarana Burke
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
Emma Dabiri
The Sense of Brown (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by J...
José Esteban Muñoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, T...
Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays
Jesse McCarthy
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Dara Horn
Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
Jim Harrison
Linea Nigra
Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney
The Deadline
Jill Lepore
Playing with Myself
Randy Rainbow
Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays
Molly McCully Brown
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonf...
Zoë Bossiere, Dinty W. Moore
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Melissa Febos
The Contemporary American Essay
Phillip Lopate
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John Koenig
The Age of Skin
Dubravka UgreÅ¡iÄ, Ellen Elias-BursaÄ
Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
Lars Horn
Inciting Joy: Essays
Ross Gay
This Body I Wore: A Memoir
Diana Goetsch
This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
Sejal Shah
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on ...
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Sea...
Meghan O'Gieblyn
The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
Elisa Gabbert
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
Joe Vallese
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the Ameri...
Margaret Renkl
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
N. Scott Momaday
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau
Andrew Blauner
Crying in the Bathroom
Erika L. Sánchez
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Christopher Prendergast
Lost in Summerland: Essays
Barrett Swanson
High-Risk Homosexual
Edgar Gomez
Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights Open Media)
Tim Wise
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984â2021
Gary Indiana
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
Andre Dubus III
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
These Precious Days: Essays
Ann Patchett
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019
James Wood
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays)
Jerald Walker
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
Shayla Lawson
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happ...
Jessica P. Pryde, Beverly Jenkins, Allie K. Par...
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
Barry Lopez, Rebecca Solnit
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
Howard Bryant
The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays
Kelly McMasters
The Freezer Door (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker
A History of My Brief Body
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Girlhood
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark...
Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Ann Patchett, B...
A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature
Charles Hood
The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
Aminatta Forna
Just Us: An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine
The Best of Me
The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life
Simran Jeet Singh
Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Ruby Tandoh
Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces
Will McGrath
How to Read Now
Elaine Castillo
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Ot...
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
Gabrielle Union, Kevin Carr O'Leary
What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
Alice McDermott
This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers
Jeff Sharlet
The End of Bias: A Beginning
Jessica Nordell
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick
Intimations
Zadie Smith
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Dorthe Nors, Caroline Waight
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That M...
Rachel Aviv
Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s M...
Andrew J. Bacevich, Daniel A. Sjursen
Readers Ratings ★ 100/100
Redeeming Justice Jarrett Adams Convergent Books
A Heart That Works Rob Delaney Spiegel & Grau
The Rent Collectors Jesse Katz Astra House
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields Christina Lamb Scribner
Scholars Ratings ★ 98/100
The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins PublicAffairs
Why We Love Baseball Joe Posnanski Dutton
Beyond Stephen Walker Harper
Chasing Me to My Grave Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, Bryan Stevenson Bloomsbury Publishing
Voices from the Pandemic Eli Saslow Doubleday
Elegy for Mary Turner Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, Julie Armstrong, C. Tyrone Forehand, Mariame Kaba Verso
Critics Ratings ★ 95/100
Challenger Adam Higginbotham Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Twilight of the Gods Ian W. Toll W. W. Norton Company
Half American Matthew F. Delmont Viking Books
Black Futures Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham One World
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