Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Memoir / Non-Fiction
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
· 177 p
National Book AwardPulitzer Prize FinalistNYT Bestseller#1 NYT BestsellerHBO Seriesreflectivephilosophicaldarkhaunting
Overview
About
1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation ab…
Pages
177
Random House
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Reader feel
Emotional depth10
Cultural Analysis10
Personal Intimacy10
Prose9
Narration9
Pacing7
Worldbuilding4
Plot twists2
My journey
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