Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
By: Imani Perry
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists…
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1. Breath, Eyes, Memory
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists… read more
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- african american
2. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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3. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- race
- history
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- african american
- queer
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
4. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
5. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
6. I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir
By: Harvey Fierstein
4.37
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Awa… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
7. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
8. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- race
- history
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
9. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
10. The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window
By: Lorraine Hansberry
3.93
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
By the time of her death at age thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying master… read more
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- race
- african american
"Don't you understand man? The slogans of capitulation can KILL! Every time we say "Live and let live"--death triumphs! Too much has happened, too much has happened to me. . . . That which warped and …"-Lorraine Hansberry, The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window
"Don't you understand man? The slogans of capitulation can KILL! Every time we say "Live and let live"--death triumphs! Too much has happened, too much has happened to me. . . . That which warped and …"-Lorraine Hansberry, The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window
11. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir
By: Michael McDonald
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
12. Global
By: Eoin Colfer
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Time is running out for Sami and Yuki. Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian … read more
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13. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
14. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
By: Imani Perry
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- queer
15. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
By: J.S. Park
4.63
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
16. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
17. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
18. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
19. Lesbian Love Story
By: Amelia Possanza
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey in… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"Lesbians, in my eyes, are defined as the ones who invent their own systems of love: Romantic love. Family love. Friend love. A love for community, and for strangers too. They love when there is nothi…"-Amelia Possanza, Lesbian Love Story
20. Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
By: Brea Baker
4.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A powerful history of the impact of land theft and violent displacement on Black communities in the… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
21. This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation―Poems, Prose, Practices
By: Jezz Chung
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself—and the world—through self-healing, transformation, a… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
