6 best-selling race books like Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen

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Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

By: Tajja Isen

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In nine daring essays, essayist and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of …

If you liked the race plot in Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Whip Smart: A Memoir

By: Melissa Febos

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professi… read more

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2. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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3. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thornton's Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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5. The Trayvon Generation

By: Elizabeth Alexander

4.36

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Alexander's The Trayvon Generation book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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6. How to Read Now

By: Elaine Castillo

4.03

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Castillo's How to Read Now book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • race
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

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7. Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America

By: Sheima Benembarek

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An unprecedented glimpse into the sex lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living across Ca… read more

Similar categories in Sheima Benembarek's Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • memoir
  • canada
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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9. Little Rabbit

By: Alyssa Songsiridej

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency i… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Songsiridej's Little Rabbit book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • adult
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10. The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

By: Tracie McMillan

3.72

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the c… read more

Similar categories in Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • race
  • nonfiction
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11. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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12. Some Strange Music Draws Me In

By: Griffin Hansbury

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Hansbury's Some Strange Music Draws Me In book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • adult
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13. We Weren't Looking to Be Found

By: Stephanie Kuehn

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two young girls. Two disparate stories. One unlikely friendship.... Dani comes from the richest,… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kuehn's We Weren't Looking to Be Found book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • audiobook
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14. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • short stories
  • adult
  • canada
  • audiobook
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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15. Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

By: Tajja Isen

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In nine daring essays, essayist and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of … read more

Similar categories in Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • race
  • memoir
  • canada
  • feminism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

By: Tania De Rozario

4.18

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The… read more

Similar categories in Tania De Rozario's Dinner on Monster Island: Essays book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"There is nothing like a horror film to reveal the cultural anxieties of one’s time and place. And if horror has taught me anything, it is that nothing has been as enduringly terrifying across time an…"

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

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17. The Everything I Have Lost

By: Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is stra… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny's The Everything I Have Lost book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • audiobook
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18. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • race
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Kill For Love

By: Laura Picklesimer

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit’s for pledges. Tiffany’s on the hun… read more

Similar categories in Laura Picklesimer's Kill For Love book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author… read more

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Model Home book and Tajja Isen's Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

  • race
  • adult

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3.74

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3.66

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4.06

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3.81

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3.24

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3.97

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