7 Top memoir books like The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett

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The Toni Morrison Book Club

By: Juda Bennett

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and Ameri…

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1. Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale, #1)

By: Terry McMillan

3.99

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The story of friendship between four African American women who lean on each other while "waiting t… read more

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  • african american
  • adult
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2. Home

By: Toni Morrison

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more

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  • african american
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3. A Mercy

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages,

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more

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  • african american
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4. Jazz

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more

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  • african american

5. Apex Hides the Hurt

By: Colson Whitehead

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From the MacArthur and Whiting Award-winning author of John Henry Daysand The Intuitionistcomes a n… read more

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6. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

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7. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

By: Ibi Zoboi

4.09

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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8. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man

By: Jean-Christophe Deveney

3.67

Format: 153 pages, ebook

Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, es… read more

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9. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

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10. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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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11. 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

Similar categories in Beth Nguyen's Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir book and Juda Bennett's The Toni Morrison Book Club

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

By: Zora Neale Hurston

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available t… read more

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  • race
  • adult
  • african american
  • audiobook
"I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"People value monuments above men, and signs above works."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

"The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up."

-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

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13. Neighbors and Other Stories

By: Diane Oliver

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more

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  • race
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

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14. This Book Won't Burn

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more

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  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."

-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn

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15. The Other Americans

By: Laila Lalami

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful n… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sen…"

-Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

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16. The Toni Morrison Book Club

By: Juda Bennett

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Juda Bennett's The Toni Morrison Book Club book and Juda Bennett's The Toni Morrison Book Club

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • african american
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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17. The Fox Maidens

By: Robin Ha

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic new graphic novel fantasy—a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korea… read more

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18. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

By: Toni Morrison

4.30

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collectio… read more

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  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • african american
  • audiobook
"A perfect thing is not everything."

-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

"To all these people, the attraction was of the “clean slate"

-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

"There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press."

-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

"Home is memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory."

-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

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19. Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession

By: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A humorous graphic investigation of the author's obsession with true crime, the murders that have m… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell's Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession book and Juda Bennett's The Toni Morrison Book Club

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

By: Farah Jasmine Griffin

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her fat… read more

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  • race
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"In religious terms, each time the oppressed chooses to forgive the oppressor, each time, on those rare occasions, they find themselves having a modicum of power over them and offering them mercy inst…"

-Farah Jasmine Griffin, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

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21. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy

By: Emmanuel Acho

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An engaging children's book whose aim is opening a dialogue about systemic racism, inspired by Emma… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5 Top adult books like The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett

Transform Your Habits

Waiting to Exhale (Waiting to Exhale, #1)

Terry McMillan

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

Zora Neale Hurston

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Other Americans

Laila Lalami

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Toni Morrison Book Club

Juda Bennett

4.14

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7 Top classics books like A Mercy by Toni Morrison

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Cane

Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Sonny's Blues

James Baldwin

4.30

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

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Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura

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4.00

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