“I read this book over a decade ago and it has stuck with me ever since'
Photo: Retailers There are a lot of anti-racism reading lists floating around the internet, and there are a lot of people interested in buying the books on those lists. This caused a good problem: Black-owned bookstores have been so inundated with anti-racism book orders that they can hardly keep up with the demand. It’s important to remember that these bookstores sell plenty of other great books too. Books that ship right away.
$27 at Bookshop Buy The Stand, by Stephen King $9 $10 now 10% off $9 “I randomly picked up the title pre-COVID and had no idea of the intersectionality between the fictional and reality,” says Khamani Harrison, the CEO of the Key Bookstore in Connecticut, of this postapocalyptic fantasy novel. “King creates a highly contagious virus that begins on a military base and spreads throughout the world. No one is safe.
$24 at Bookshop Buy The Nickel Boys, by Colston Whitehead $15 $16 now 6% off $15 “I am thinking a lot about the heinous acts that happen right under our noses in society. What heinous acts are happening that we are missing today? Especially in ‘reform’ schools and prisons,” Cook says.
$16 at Bookshop Buy Bound for the Promised Land: The Autobiography of Harriett Tubman, by Kate Clifford Larson $17 $19 now 11% off $17 “She is a historic heroine. In my mind, her life is the blueprint for freedom fighting. She was a woman who moved through life unable to read or write, yet she was a master strategist,” Cook says. “A nurse. A spy. A general. An entrepreneur. A voting-rights activist. A women’s-rights activist. A wife. An aunt. A friend. What a woman.
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