15 must-read nonfiction books like Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) by Octavia E. Butler

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Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

“I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) by Octavia E. Butler , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Nova

By: Samuel R. Delany

3.80

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adv… read more

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"The inevitable is that unprepared for."

-Samuel R. Delany, Nova

"How many notes have you made on this book?"

-Samuel R. Delany, Nova

"Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip."

-Samuel R. Delany, Nova

"Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about."

-Samuel R. Delany, Nova

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2. The Light of Truth

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Ida B. Wells-Barnett , Mia Bay

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

3. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains

By: Neil Gaiman , Eddie Campbell

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The text of The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountainswas first published in the collection antholo… read more

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4. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

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7. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

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8. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

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9. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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11. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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13. How to Resist Amazon and Why

By: Danny Caine

4.30

Format: 15 pages, zine

When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preyin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Damian Duffy

3.99

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to #1 New York Times Bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E.… read more

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15. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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16. Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

By: Micah Rajunov

4.29

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when your gender doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundan… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"The woman in me cannot be researched."

-Micah Rajunov, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

"The dress code of "business casual" is highly gendered, and I have to decide which "drag" to wear to work."

-Micah Rajunov, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

"We are dreaming things that a previous generation never imagined, but those dreams are sometimes night terrors too, frustrated visions of our oppression."

-Micah Rajunov, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

"Perhaps all my shifts from room to room were just social camouflage, but that wouldn't convey the magic of catharsis. Every bed-bound woman saw in me what they needed most, mistaking a single part fo…"

-Micah Rajunov, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

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17. Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

“I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fi… read more

Similar categories in Octavia E. Butler's Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) book and Octavia E. Butler's Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
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18. Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali

By: Marc Bernardin

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammad Ali, one of the most revered―and controversial… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

By: bell hooks

4.30

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

"With a thoughtful introduction by Mikki Kendall, it will remind you why she was loved, honored, ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • essays
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20. Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life

By: Sofia Samatar

4.41

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
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21. Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

By: Shirley Chisholm

3.88

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress in 1968 after campaigning under t… read more

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  • nonfiction

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