Almost Brown
By: Charlotte Gill
3.67
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as sh…
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1. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
3. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
By: Jen Sookfong Lee
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- canada
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
4. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
5. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
6. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
7. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
By: Beth Nguyen
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
8. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
9. The Secret Keeper
By: Genevieve Graham
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
10. Almost Brown
By: Charlotte Gill
3.67
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as sh… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- canada
- coming of age
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
11. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
12. A Fire So Wild
By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
With the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Ear… read more
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- audiobook
13. The Observer: A Novel
By: Marina Endicott
3.81
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shad… read more
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- canada
14. The Cure for Drowning
By: Loghan Paylor
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more
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- coming of age
- canada
15. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
16. This Is Salvaged
By: Vauhini Vara
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more
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17. They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
By: Eternity Martis
4.31
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white c… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
By: Kyo Maclear
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
19. Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
By: Kelly S. Thompson
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship … read more
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- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sisters come back to one another, I think. When they're ready."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
"I have always thought that sisters have a way of communicating, no matter what keeps them apart."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
"We were all just trying to save someone. It was a state of loving, despite instead of loving because."-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
20. One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing
By: Rowan Jette Knox
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long tra… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- canada
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Figures In A Landscape: People and Places
By: Paul Theroux
3.81
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape r… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
