Imani Perry

22 books

The Billboard by Natalie Y. Moore

The Billboard

Natalie Y. Moore

100 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction feminism play challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

Imani Perry

184 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone by Natalie Eve Garrett

The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone

Natalie Eve Garrett

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Imani Perry

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry

May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem

Imani Perry

296 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Imani Perry

More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States

Imani Perry

248 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Nothing Personal: An Essay by James Baldwin

Nothing Personal: An Essay

James Baldwin

104 pages • first pub 1964 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics race informative reflective fast-paced
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop by Imani Perry

Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

Imani Perry

248 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction music poetry politics race informative medium-paced
Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange by Ntozake Shange

Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

256 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction essays reflective medium-paced
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

410 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective medium-paced