5 Top society books like Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David Harewood

Cover of Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David  Harewood

Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

By: David Harewood

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'…

If you liked the society plot in Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David Harewood , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of May I Have Your Attention, Please? by James Corden

1. May I Have Your Attention, Please?

By: James Corden

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The warm, hilarious story of the Gavin and Stacey cocreator and starAs far back as he can remember … read more

Similar categories in James Corden's May I Have Your Attention, Please? book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something."

-James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?

"It's strange how things seem to come full circle. You know what I mean? I'm sure you do. The way your life seems to drift along with no set path, then something good happens to you and you can trace …"

-James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?

"It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglectin…"

-James Corden, May I Have Your Attention, Please?

Cover of The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

2. The Good Immigrant

By: Nikesh Shukla

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more

Similar categories in Nikesh Shukla's The Good Immigrant book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

Cover of Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates

3. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Fix the System, Not the Women book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

Cover of Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera

4. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Cover of Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay

5. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Just Sayin': My Life In Words by Malorie Blackman

6. Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By: Malorie Blackman

4.53

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more

Similar categories in Malorie Blackman's Just Sayin': My Life In Words book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."

-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words

Cover of I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was by Ruby Wax

7. I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was

By: Ruby Wax

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing abou… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Wax's I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The List by Yomi Adegoke

8. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

Cover of Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter by Angela Hui

9. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

By: Angela Hui

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more

Similar categories in Angela Hui's Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict by Elizabeth Day

10. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring by Davina McCall

11. Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring

By: Davina McCall

4.31

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or sile… read more

Similar categories in Davina McCall's Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

12. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

By: Akala

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more

Similar categories in Akala's Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"

-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Cover of Rising to the Surface by Lenny Henry

13. Rising to the Surface

By: Lenny Henry

3.58

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s. 'Mo… read more

Similar categories in Lenny Henry's Rising to the Surface book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it by Michael Rosen

14. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

By: Michael Rosen

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more

Similar categories in Michael Rosen's Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi

15. A Dutiful Boy

By: Mohsin Zaidi

4.57

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Like Educated with a mo… read more

Similar categories in Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of That Peckham Boy by Kenny Imafidon

16. That Peckham Boy

By: Kenny Imafidon

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of  Poverty Safari  and  Skint Estate ,  That Peckham Boy  is a reallife manifesto calling… read more

Similar categories in Kenny Imafidon's That Peckham Boy book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories by Chris Atkins

17. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories

By: Chris Atkins

4.34

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more

Similar categories in Chris Atkins's Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Heard What You Said by Jeffrey Boakye

18. I Heard What You Said

By: Jeffrey Boakye

4.41

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifet… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Boakye's I Heard What You Said book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope by Clive Myrie

19. Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope

By: Clive Myrie

4.31

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cove… read more

Similar categories in Clive Myrie's Everything is Everything: A Memoir of Love, Hate & Hope book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page by Cathy Rentzenbrink

20. Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why do we write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the worry tha… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Rentzenbrink's Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Black and British: A Short, Essential History by David Olusoga

21. Black and British: A Short, Essential History

By: David Olusoga

4.52

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

A short, essential introduction to Black British history When did Africans first come to Britain… read more

Similar categories in David Olusoga's Black and British: A Short, Essential History book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch

22. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By: Afua Hirsch

4.32

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more

Similar categories in Afua Hirsch's Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."

-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"

-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Cover of Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David  Harewood

23. Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

By: David Harewood

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'… read more

Similar categories in David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of It Takes Blood and Guts by Skin

24. It Takes Blood and Guts

By: Skin

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Skin, the trail-blazing lead singer of multi-million-selling rock band Skunk Anansie, is a global f… read more

Similar categories in Skin's It Takes Blood and Guts book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Visage Pur Cream Your Path To Raised Skin Easily And Care Quickly What can cause lines? This issue was previously prevented because individuals somehow got used-to the very fact that getting old is c…"

-Skin, It Takes Blood and Guts

Cover of Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online by Harriet Gibsone

25. Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online

By: Harriet Gibsone

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ a… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Gibsone's Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry

26. Who Am I, Again?

By: Lenny Henry

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer ber… read more

Similar categories in Lenny Henry's Who Am I, Again? book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere

27. Cack-Handed: A Memoir

By: Gina Yashere

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit serie… read more

Similar categories in Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel

28. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's My Family: The Memoir book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality by Lenny Henry

29. Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

By: Lenny Henry

4.42

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.I… read more

Similar categories in Lenny Henry's Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism by John           Barnes

30. The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism

By: John Barnes

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before moving to the UK with his fam… read more

Similar categories in John Barnes's The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity by Naomi Evans

31. The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

By: Naomi Evans

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | … read more

Similar categories in Naomi Evans's The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity book and David Harewood's Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook

29 must-read audiobook books like Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David Harewood

Transform Your Habits

May I Have Your Attention, Please?

James Corden

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

View all the books

16 must-read audiobook books like Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

Owen Jones

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla

4.32

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.