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Bookshop at The Bottom

An independent bookshop and writing space for writers, artists, activists, creatives and others. Our specially curated collection is Black affirming, Black empowering and Black authored literature for all ages. We're located at 2340 E Magnolia Ave. in Knoxville, TN 37917

Special Spotlight VIEW LIST (6 BOOKS)
I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
A Promised Land
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
Black, Queer & Proud [Knox Pride List] VIEW LIST (29 BOOKS)
The Prophets
Just as I Am
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
The Black Trans Prayer Book
And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer's Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death
Life as Activism: June Jordan's Writings from the Progressive
Mind Your Own Life: The Journey Back to Love
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival
The Gilda Stories
Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays
A year without you
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

VIEW ALL 29 BOOKS
Black in Appalachia's List VIEW LIST (21 BOOKS)
Madness Like Morning Glories: Poems
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
The Logan Topographies: Poems
Saint Monkey
Beetlecreek
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
Masked Man, Black
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
All about Love: New Visions
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter
The Birds of Opulence
Blackberries, Blackberries
Affrilachia: Poems
Black in Appalachia

VIEW ALL 21 BOOKS
Enkeshi's List VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Thick: And Other Essays
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Brandi's List VIEW LIST (7 BOOKS)
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Homegoing
Children of Blood and Bone
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
As Brave as You
Bestseller's List VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
Parable of the Talents
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
How to Be an Antiracist
Such a Fun Age
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Assata: An Autobiography
Thick: And Other Essays
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Words from a King VIEW LIST (5 BOOKS)
Strength to Love
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
The Trumpet of Conscience
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Why We Can't Wait
More Books VIEW LIST (58 BOOKS)
Heads of the Colored People: Stories
If Beale Street Could Talk
Another Brooklyn
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Clap When You Land
Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories
The Hate U Give
Conversations With Harriett
Women & Power: A Manifesto
The Vanishing Half
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
A Song Below Water
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

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#TeachTruth VIEW LIST (32 BOOKS)
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
The Fire Next Time
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
How to Be an Antiracist
Heads of the Colored People: Stories
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Citizen: An American Lyric
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
Beloved
All about Love: New Visions
A Raisin in the Sun
A People's History of the United States

VIEW ALL 32 BOOKS
Juneteenth VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)
Hallelujah! the Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes
Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Seeking Freedom: The Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America
What Is Juneteenth?
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
Juneteenth for Mazie
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Homegoing
A Sitting in St. James
A Black Women's History of the United States
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
On Juneteenth