19 must-read memoir books like Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis

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Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

By: Jenifer Lewis

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood. Walking in My Jo…

"Ain't no shame in my game. This is what too much stress looks like. Y'all come on and take this ride with me."

-Jenifer Lewis, Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

If you liked the memoir plot in Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Around the Way Girl

By: Taraji P. Henson

4.10

Format: 0 pages,

From Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner, and star of the new motion picture Hidden Figures,… read more

Similar categories in Taraji P. Henson's Around the Way Girl book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook

2. The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way

By: None

3.52

Format: None pages,

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3. Black Girls Must Be Magic

By: Jayne Allen

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Allen's Black Girls Must Be Magic book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • african american
  • audiobook
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4. Just as I Am

By: Cicely Tyson

4.51

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. … read more

Similar categories in Cicely Tyson's Just as I Am book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"The most potent antidote to reticence is survival."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

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5. Hold You Down

By: Tracy Brown

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties t… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Brown's Hold You Down book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • african american
  • audiobook
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6. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jones's Leslie F*cking Jones book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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7. Worthy

By: Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more

Similar categories in Jada Pinkett Smith's Worthy book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Finding Me

By: Viola Davis

4.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-cha… read more

Similar categories in Viola Davis's Finding Me book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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9. This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)

By: Kennedy Ryan

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Kennedy Ryan's This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2) book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • african american
  • audiobook
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10. Double Lives

By: Mary Monroe

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of … read more

Similar categories in Mary Monroe's Double Lives book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • african american
"Life is a gift. You need to live."

-Mary Monroe, Double Lives

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11. The Thing About Home

By: Rhonda McKnight

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Home is not a place—it’s a feeling. Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renew… read more

Similar categories in Rhonda McKnight's The Thing About Home book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • african american
  • audiobook
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12. Thicker than Water: A Memoir

By: Kerry Washington

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water: A Memoir book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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13. Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

By: Sheila Johnson

4.39

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journe… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Johnson's Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

By: Kennedy Ryan

4.36

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasme… read more

Similar categories in Kennedy Ryan's Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1) book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • audiobook
  • mental health
"Fuck them ribs."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

"We said till death do us part."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

"No one in my whole life has ever hurt me like you did."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

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15. I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir

By: Debra Lee

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting memoir by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), about the glamorous an… read more

Similar categories in Debra Lee's I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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16. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • audiobook
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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17. You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

By: Gabrielle Union

4.12

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We’re Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time … read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Union's You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • african american
  • audiobook
"When you acknowledge that your vulnerability does not absolve anyone of personal accountability, you will heal from those traumas faster and more fully."

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"I am continually awed by the honor and responsibility of raising free Black girls. May you each embrace your vulnerability as your superpower, and may I not falter as I attempt to lead by example."

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"The Avengers you assemble don't have to be golden by the standards of the industry you are breaking into. They just need to have the same work ethic as you, and believe in effective communication and…"

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"When I was a little girl, my mother always told me that if I ever got lost in a big city, "Look for the rainbow flag." She believed in the goodness of the LGBTQ+ community, and knew there would be pr…"

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

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18. Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book)

By: Tabitha Brown

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  53 rd  NAACP Image Awards Winner You are seen, you are loved, and you… read more

Similar categories in Tabitha Brown's Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book) book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"To whom much is given, much is required"

-Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book)

"It is important that we recognize the difference between being right and just being caught up in your feelings"

-Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book)

"This inclination to make the worst comment in order to get a reaction is dehumanizing, & it’s time for it to stop"

-Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book)

"Just because you see me out in my dress smiling doesn’t mean I’m not hurting, or that I didn’t want to sleep in. It means that despite everything I still showed up."

-Tabitha Brown, Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book)

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19. Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

By: Jenifer Lewis

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood. Walking in My Jo… read more

Similar categories in Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Ain't no shame in my game. This is what too much stress looks like. Y'all come on and take this ride with me."

-Jenifer Lewis, Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

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20. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

Similar categories in Whoopi Goldberg's Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

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21. Unprotected: A Memoir

By: Billy Porter

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Billy Porter, the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, Unprotected is a powerful … read more

Similar categories in Billy Porter's Unprotected: A Memoir book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Lenora was a Fosse girl. She had learned from the mater, the actual master himself. Fosse was a galvanizing choreographer, who fascinated and spoke directly to me for a range of reasons. The first wa…"

-Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

"Lenora was a Fosse girl. She had learned from the master, the actual master himself. Fosse was a galvanizing choreographer, who fascinated and spoke directly to me for a range of reasons. The first w…"

-Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

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22. Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3)

By: Jayne Allen

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is jugg… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Allen's Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3) book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • african american
  • audiobook
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23. Scenes from My Life: A Memoir

By: Michael K. Williams

4.49

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission … read more

Similar categories in Michael K. Williams's Scenes from My Life: A Memoir book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe by Jeezy

24. Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe

By: Jeezy

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER To Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous… read more

Similar categories in Jeezy's Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (A Feeding the Soul Book) by Tabitha Brown

25. I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (A Feeding the Soul Book)

By: Tabitha Brown

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business) presents an… read more

Similar categories in Tabitha Brown's I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (A Feeding the Soul Book) book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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26. Bitter and Sweet

By: Rhonda McKnight

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two sisters at a crossroad in life find the answers to their problems in the lessons from the past.… read more

Similar categories in Rhonda McKnight's Bitter and Sweet book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of DIVA 2.0: 12 Life Lessons From Me For You! by Sheryl Lee Ralph

27. DIVA 2.0: 12 Life Lessons From Me For You!

By: Sheryl Lee Ralph

4.02

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Emmy, Tony and Spirit Award-winning actress, Sheryl Lee Ralph, knows a thing or two about staying p… read more

Similar categories in Sheryl Lee Ralph's DIVA 2.0: 12 Life Lessons From Me For You! book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship by Khadeen Ellis

28. We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship

By: Khadeen Ellis

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The stars of the social media show The Ellises and hosts of the Webby A… read more

Similar categories in Khadeen Ellis's We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Uphill: A Memoir by Jemele Hill

29. Uphill: A Memoir

By: Jemele Hill

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One of Oprah Daily 's Best Fall Nonfiction Books of 2022 An empowering, unabashedly bold memoir by… read more

Similar categories in Jemele Hill's Uphill: A Memoir book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner by Kevin Fredericks

30. Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner

By: Kevin Fredericks

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Discover the keys to upholding your vows while staying sane in this hil… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fredericks's Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"The titles husband and wife must take priority over the titles dad and mom."

-Kevin Fredericks, Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner

"String holders show up consistently. Kites cannot fly unless someone is holding the string."

-Kevin Fredericks, Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner

"If your kid came to you while you were busy working and said, “Can you play video games with me?"

-Kevin Fredericks, Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner

"What you think is obvious might not be obvious to your partner. Even if it is obvious, it warrants a conversation and an agreement."

-Kevin Fredericks, Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner

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31. All Hope is Found: Rediscovering the Joy of Expectation

By: Sarah Jakes Roberts

4.35

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Hope is not a wish waiting to come true. It's not an external desire waiting to be realized. Hope i… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Jakes Roberts's All Hope is Found: Rediscovering the Joy of Expectation book and Jenifer Lewis's Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

29 best-selling audiobook books like Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis

Transform Your Habits

Around the Way Girl

Taraji P. Henson

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Black Girls Must Be Magic

Jayne Allen

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Just as I Am

Cicely Tyson

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Hold You Down

Tracy Brown

4.35

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Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

Harvey Fierstein

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Coming Home

Brittney Griner

4.43

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