The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

By
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
1962 • 128 pages

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11 books

Essays

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Laelia
We Should All Be Feminists
Selected Essays
Notes on Grief
Bluets
The Second Common Reader
The Fire Next Time

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24 books

Sociology

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Sarah Schumacher
The Color of Compromise
So You Want to Talk about Race
How to Be an Antiracist
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Political Tribes
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Fire Next Time

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167 books

Activism And Civil Rights

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Crystallinegirl
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
The Unit
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Colonize This!
On Tyranny
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation

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9 books

5 Science

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Aldor
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
Here comes everybody
You are not a gadget
Who Owns the Future?
The Fire Next Time

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29 books

Paused

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Matt E
There There
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Priestdaddy
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
The Noonday Demon
Blackfish City
The City We Became

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133 books

Non Fiction

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Stephen Waller
Unbroken
The Rite
Malcolm X
Killing Pablo
Zeitoun
Columbine
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

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654 books

Nonfiction

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Sylvia Chi
On Human Nature
Breaking Open the Head
Pathologies of Power
Supercapitalism
The Nine
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
The Climate War : True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

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107 books

Poc

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arianna
Under the Udala Trees
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
This Is What It Feels Like
With the Fire on High
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
Left to Tell
Americanah

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182 books

Nonfiction

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Andy
Salt: A World History
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Black Like Me
Reading Like a Writer
The Art of X-Ray Reading
Mentor: A Memoir
The baseball codes

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41 books

I Have This

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William Barcelona
My Man Jeeves
Jesus' Son
Housekeeping
The Fire Next Time
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Humboldt's Gift
The Savage Detectives

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357 books

Owned Unread

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Brent Parkey
Giant
Destiny and power
Some luck
Outliers: The Story of Success
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Blood on snow
Midnight sun

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822 books

Nonfiction

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Christina
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

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39 books

Essays

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Christina
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Bad Feminist
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Around the world in seventy-two days and other writings
Naked
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

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22 books

2020

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mia
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
No Logo
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Health Justice Now
Affirmative Action

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58 books

Nonfiction

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Frobisher Smith
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
The Stairway to Heaven
The Uninvited
Temperament
The Adversary
Vertebrate Taphonomy
Civilization One

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17 books

African American

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Stephen Waller
Roots
The Fire Next Time
Before the Mayflower
They Came Before Columbus
The Five Negro Presidents
100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro

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17 books

Nonfiction

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arianna
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Women, Race & Class
Are Prisons Obsolete?
The Souls of Black Folk
The Fire Next Time
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

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279 books

2017

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Jess
Sourdough
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Purple Hibiscus
Burntown
Young Jane Young
The Last Days of Café Leila
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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34 books

Undergrad

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Jason
Rubyfruit Jungle
The Fire Next Time
The Great Fire of London
Georges Perec
The Bell Jar
62: A Model Kit
I Burn Paris

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627 books

Audiolist

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Keiko C
Vittorio, The Vampire
Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
Transcendence
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The Best of Me

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381 books

Read In English

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Zéro Janvier
The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: House Corrino
The Children Act
Vicious
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

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526 books

Written In English

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Zéro Janvier
The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: House Corrino
The Children Act
Vicious
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

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239 books

Non Fiction

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Zéro Janvier
Dessine - moi un parisien

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114 books

Politics

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Zéro Janvier
Des hommes d'état
Lionel raconte Jospin: Entretiens avec Pierre Favier et Patrick Rotman
L'enfer de Matignon
L'Abolition
Le Prince
La nuit du second tour
La plus folle de nous deux

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33 books

3 Geopolitics Economy

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Aldor
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Between the World and Me
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Fire Next Time
The Souls of Black Folk
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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