Meridian

The second novel written by Alice Walker, preceding The Color Purple is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the American S…

If you like book Meridian here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (19)

Where We Stand: Class Matters

Buy this book on Amazon
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you'r…
Buy this book on Amazon
Confessions of the Fox

Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation.…
Buy this book on Amazon
Abolition. Feminism. Now.

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.

As a politic and a p…
Buy this book on Amazon
Cœur du Sahel

Buy this book on Amazon
Casualties of Truth

Buy this book on Amazon
The Salt Eaters

Buy this book on Amazon
The Street

The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem i…
Buy this book on Amazon
Breath, Eyes, Memory

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child sh…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Bone People

The powerful, visionary, Booker Award–winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage.

“This book is just amazingly, wondrously great.”…
Buy this book on Amazon
Zong!

A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry

In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners cou…
Buy this book on Amazon
Revolutionary Suicide

The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package

Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiograp…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

A witty sharply observed journey down the length of North and South America.

Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Pa…
Buy this book on Amazon
Song of Solomon

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly im…
Buy this book on Amazon
Uncle Tom's Children

Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppr…
Buy this book on Amazon
Hoe ik talent voor het leven kreeg

Buy this book on Amazon
Corregidora

Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.

From the back cover: "Hist…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Filling Station

Buy this book on Amazon
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

Buy this book on Amazon