7 Top memoir books like Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body by Savala Nolan

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Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

By: Savala Nolan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between …

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1. An Unrestored Woman

By: Shobha Rao

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

The twelve paired stories in Shobha Rao's An Unrestored Woman trace their origins to the formation … read more

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2. The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality

By: Rachel Hills

0.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fift… read more

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3. Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

By: Elizabeth Keckley

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth… read more

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4. Doughnuts and Doom

By: Balazs Lorinczi

3.69

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Being a teenage witch—or rock star—is tougher than it looks! But maybe enemies can become friends…o… read more

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5. 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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6. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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7. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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8. The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop

By: Judson Brewer

3.90

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling … read more

Similar categories in Judson Brewer's The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Mall Goth

By: Kate Leth

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more

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"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"

-Kate Leth, Mall Goth

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11. Our Colors

By: Gengoroh Tagame

4.04

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

A mesmerizing coming-of-age and coming-out graphic novel by the genius writer-artist of the Eisner … read more

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12. Homebodies

By: Tembe Denton-Hurst

3.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more

Similar categories in Tembe Denton-Hurst's Homebodies book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • audiobook
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13. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

By: Cole Kazdin

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more

Similar categories in Cole Kazdin's What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"

-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

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14. Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

By: Daniel José Older

3.75

Format: 359 pages, ebook

A YA urban fantasy about two teens who discover each other while fighting for their diaspora commun… read more

Similar categories in Daniel José Older's Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1) book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • audiobook
"One lie will bring the whole house of lies crashing down."

-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

"They hate me. I am 100 percent positive that everything Gerval just said is only giving voice to what they’ve all been thinking this whole time."

-Daniel José Older, Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints, #1)

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15. Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

By: Savala Nolan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between … read more

Similar categories in Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • race
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • gender
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
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16. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Gay Girl Prayers book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph

17. Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

By: Frederick Joseph

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this personal and poignant collection, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Fri… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Joseph's Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • race
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • anti racist
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18. Field Study

By: Chet'la Sebree

4.30

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets Layered, complex,… read more

Similar categories in Chet'la Sebree's Field Study book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"If it weren't for ruins, I wouldn't be writing."

-Chet'la Sebree, Field Study

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19. Abolition For The People

By: Colin Kaepernick

4.09

Format: None pages, None

Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolitio… read more

Similar categories in Colin Kaepernick's Abolition For The People book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
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20. But How Are You, Really

By: Ella Dawson

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A burned-out bisexual confronts old demons, her estranged chosen family, and the ex she maybe shoul… read more

Similar categories in Ella Dawson's But How Are You, Really book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • audiobook
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21. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

By: Michael Waters

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture… read more

Similar categories in Michael Waters's The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports book and Savala Nolan's Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

10 Best audiobook books like Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body by Savala Nolan

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3.90

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