13 must-read biography memoir books like Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use by Amanda Seales

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Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

By: Amanda Seales

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Small Doses is Amanda Seales’s wildly popular collection of sharp essays, poignant life advice, and…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use by Amanda Seales , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. We're Going to Need More Wine

By: Gabrielle Union

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Union's We're Going to Need More Wine book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Your world is only as small as you make it."

-Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

"My humaness doesn't insulate me from racism or sexism."

-Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself"

-Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

"An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools"

-Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

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2. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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3. I Don't Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voice

By: Keke Palmer

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

A sometimes serious, often hilarious, and always inspiring guide that encourages young women to liv… read more

Similar categories in Keke Palmer's I Don't Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voice book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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4. Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

By: Naya Rivera

3.98

Format: 480 pages,

Funny and deeply personal, Sorry Not SorryrecountsGleestar Naya Rivera's successes and missteps, ur… read more

Similar categories in Naya Rivera's Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace

By: Miguel Ruiz , Janet Mills

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE, Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound and simple truth: The only way to e… read more

Similar categories in Miguel Ruiz's The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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6. Around the Way Girl

By: Taraji P. Henson

4.10

Format: 0 pages,

From Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner, and star of the new motion picture Hidden Figures,… read more

Similar categories in Taraji P. Henson's Around the Way Girl book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

7. The Emperor's Children

By: Claire Messud

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a literary inte… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

8. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

By: Issa Rae

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Sloan Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cakeand Mindy Kaling's Is Eve… read more

Similar categories in Issa Rae's The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

9. Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

By: Charlamagne Tha God

3.92

Format: 314 pages,

read more

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10. You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

By: Gabrielle Union

4.12

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We’re Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time … read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Union's You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"When you acknowledge that your vulnerability does not absolve anyone of personal accountability, you will heal from those traumas faster and more fully."

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"I am continually awed by the honor and responsibility of raising free Black girls. May you each embrace your vulnerability as your superpower, and may I not falter as I attempt to lead by example."

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"The Avengers you assemble don't have to be golden by the standards of the industry you are breaking into. They just need to have the same work ethic as you, and believe in effective communication and…"

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

"When I was a little girl, my mother always told me that if I ever got lost in a big city, "Look for the rainbow flag." She believed in the goodness of the LGBTQ+ community, and knew there would be pr…"

-Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

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11. The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

By: Jenifer Lewis

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The "Mega Diva" and legendary star of Black-ish looks back on her memorable journey to fame and the… read more

Similar categories in Jenifer Lewis's The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There’s no greater journey than the journey within."

-Jenifer Lewis, The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

"... my love life in college had a lot of moving parts."

-Jenifer Lewis, The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

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12. More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

By: Elaine Welteroth

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Welteroth's More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We fell into a different kind of love. One that was sturdier, safer, and more like home than anything I'd ever experienced."

-Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

"When the topic of self-care came up, Eve, an academic, writer and visual artist said "There is no glory in a grind that literally grinds you down to dust"."

-Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

"As a culture, we love a celebration. We love a first. We hold them high. We all marvel at headlines and highlight reels. But we rarely discuss the marks and scars and bruises that come with breaking …"

-Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

"When the music changes, so must your dance. It was the most beautifully worded truth, a profound lesson reminding me to trust my instincts, to let life guide me, and to never stay anywhere doing the …"

-Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

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13. The World Record Book of Racist Stories

By: Amber Ruffin

4.40

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more

Similar categories in Amber Ruffin's The World Record Book of Racist Stories book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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14. After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

By: Alexandra Elle

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this Amazon #1 bestseller, celebrated self-care storyteller Alexandra Elle delivers 15 lessons o… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Elle's After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more

Similar categories in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • feminism
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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16. What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough

By: Chidera Eggerue

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's not easy to find self-worth in a world that seems obsessed with telling us we're not… read more

Similar categories in Chidera Eggerue's What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • audiobook
"You are allowed to outgrow people, and people are allowed to outgrow you."

-Chidera Eggerue, What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough

"Anytime you find yourself in an environment that dilutes your self-esteem, picture four-year-old you and try your best to be her hero."

-Chidera Eggerue, What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough

"Boredom is the ideal breeding ground for bad decisions. A lot of regrettable scenarios can be avoided if you just buckle down, focus on your goals, and try not to give in to temporary temptations tha…"

-Chidera Eggerue, What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough

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17. I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To: True Life Lessons

By: Loni Love

4.23

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself … read more

Similar categories in Loni Love's I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To: True Life Lessons book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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18. Take a Hike (Lovestruck, #3)

By: Mimi Grace

3.91

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Falling in love is an uphill battle. Day-to-day life has grown stale for Raven Coleman, who prefer… read more

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19. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

By: Glory Edim

4.37

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular boo… read more

Similar categories in Glory Edim's Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"This often has a lot to do with racism and sexism, and the stories we are "allowed" to tell as people of colour."

-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

"They both squealed in the face of hope and the audacity for a black body to exist despite the system designed to dismember it."

-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

"Cassie's story made me acutely aware of the fact that in that moment, she inhabited a black body, and so marked, would never be gifted with escape."

-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

"That while I wanted to write with the narrative bravado of Toni Morrison, it might be okay if I started with something less ambitious than a book like beloved."

-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

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20. The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life

By: Lauren Martin

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Happiness Project meets So Sad Today in this "hilariously witty, unflinchingly honest" book fro… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Martin's The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The past was too heavy & the future too forceful to truly escape. Instead, I'd have to learn to travel through the recesses of my mind, back and forth between the three plateaus- past, present , futu…"

-Lauren Martin, The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life

"In the same way it takes ten thousand hours to master a skill, it takes ten thousand uncomfortable moments to acquire strength. And if you can look at every delay as a chance to practice patience and…"

-Lauren Martin, The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life

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21. Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

By: Mimi Zhu

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Radical and revolutionary.” —Jonny Sun, New York Times bestselling author of Goodbye, Again A col… read more

Similar categories in Mimi Zhu's Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
"Anger, like numbness, is another sacred protector of our survival. It is a loving act to protect yourself, a loving at to resist harm, and a loving act to allow yourself the sacred breath of anger."

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

"I have tried to return to an "untainted" version of myself, one that was oblivious to the visceral natures of pain and loss. I obsess over an imagined place of "purity", where the ghosts of my past d…"

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

"The excuses became an armor that pushed away he pain, but painful feelings do not relent even when faced with brute force. They linger in the ether and visit you, whether you are ready or not to conf…"

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

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22. Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe

By: Jeezy

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER To Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous… read more

Similar categories in Jeezy's Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Survival of the Thickest: Essays

By: Michelle Buteau

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and una… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Buteau's Survival of the Thickest: Essays book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir about Life, Wine, and Cookies by Tamera Mowry-Housley

24. You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir about Life, Wine, and Cookies

By: Tamera Mowry-Housley

3.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A lighthearted and supremely entertaining memoir, You Should Sit Down for This is like spending the… read more

Similar categories in Tamera Mowry-Housley's You Should Sit Down for This: A Memoir about Life, Wine, and Cookies book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance

By: EbonyJanice Moore

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?” Hip Hop… read more

Similar categories in EbonyJanice Moore's All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship by Khadeen Ellis

26. We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship

By: Khadeen Ellis

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The stars of the social media show The Ellises and hosts of the Webby A… read more

Similar categories in Khadeen Ellis's We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use by Amanda Seales

27. Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

By: Amanda Seales

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Small Doses is Amanda Seales’s wildly popular collection of sharp essays, poignant life advice, and… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

28. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis

29. What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly

By: Arianna Davis

3.30

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary guide to life, love, and happiness inspired by the extraordinary artist Frida Kahlo.… read more

Similar categories in Arianna Davis's What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • biography
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks by Charlamagne Tha God

30. Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks

By: Charlamagne Tha God

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader. read more

Similar categories in Charlamagne Tha God's Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Sonali, Letters to the Daughter I Never Had by Lynn Toler

31. Dear Sonali, Letters to the Daughter I Never Had

By: Lynn Toler

4.52

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

Dear Sonali, is a passion project from the TV's Divorce Court Host. Seeking to share her mother's w… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Toler's Dear Sonali, Letters to the Daughter I Never Had book and Amanda Seales's Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

  • nonfiction
  • self help

21 must-read audiobook books like Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use by Amanda Seales

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We're Going to Need More Wine

Gabrielle Union

4.19

Transform Your Habits

I Don't Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voice

Keke Palmer

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

Naya Rivera

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Around the Way Girl

Taraji P. Henson

4.10

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Perfect Peace

Daniel Black

4.32

Transform Your Habits

My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward

Mark Lukach

4.29

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Marc Maron

3.78

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