12 Best memoir books like Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad

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Black Boy Out of Time

By: Hari Ziyad

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists tod…

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1. Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships

By: Mark A. Michaels , Patricia Johnson

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Contemporary relationships are in a state of rapid evolution. These changes can and should empower … read more

Similar categories in Mark A. Michaels's Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships book and Hari Ziyad's Black Boy Out of Time

  • nonfiction
  • queer

2. Black No More

By: George S. Schuyler

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people … read more

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3. The Immortal King Rao

By: Vauhini Vara

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmer… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Confessions of a Curious Bookseller by Elizabeth    Green

4. Confessions of a Curious Bookseller

By: Elizabeth Green

2.82

Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartening and uproariously funny novel of high hopes, bad choices, book love, and one woman’s be… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Place for Us: A Memoir by Brandon J. Wolf

5. A Place for Us: A Memoir

By: Brandon J. Wolf

4.32

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the most vital and passionate LGBTQ+ activists comes a powerful memoir about self-disco… read more

Similar categories in Brandon J. Wolf's A Place for Us: A Memoir book and Hari Ziyad's Black Boy Out of Time

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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6. The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.78

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

By fate and fire, a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary Afr… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 2043... a Merman I Should Turn to Be (Black Stars, #3)

By: Nisi Shawl

2.95

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

African-descended USians are finally obtaining reparations—underwater. Plunge into the action of a … read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Clap Back (Black Stars, #5)

By: Nalo Hopkinson

3.80

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

A past struggle for racial equity could achieve a profound future victory in this audacious short s… read more

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  • race
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. This Way Out

By: Tufayel Ahmed

4.03

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you’re getting married (and gay)… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Love is a gift. Mariam's words stick with me. People are more concerned by what two men or two women do in bed than about love. Love is companionship, feeling content and safe in the arms of another …"

-Tufayel Ahmed, This Way Out

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10. I'm in Seattle, Where Are You? : A Memoir

By: Mortada Gzar

3.84

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for hi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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11. Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

By: Leah Myers

3.81

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I wonder if I will ever feel Native enough."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"You don't have the right to define my identity."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"She gave up herself and her identity for security."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

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12. We Travel the Spaceways (Black Stars, #6)

By: Victor LaValle

3.90

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Otherworldly interference in real-world New York City? Or delusions? For the answer, follow two lov… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's We Travel the Spaceways (Black Stars, #6) book and Hari Ziyad's Black Boy Out of Time

  • audiobook
  • african american
  • adult
  • lgbt
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13. Jew[ish]

By: Matt Greene

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

For author Matt Greene, “ish” was probably the most important part of being Jewish. Yes his family … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. The Ardent Swarm

By: Yamen Manai

4.10

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of… read more

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  • audiobook
"A God that could still console him for the cruelty of man through the gentleness of his bees."

-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm

"Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them."

-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm

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15. Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

By: Pidgeon Pagonis

4.37

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, li… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Hey, hey, listen,"

-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

"The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be."

-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

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16. These Alien Skies (Black Stars, #4)

By: C.T. Rwizi

4.27

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

Accidents happen in the strange realms of the African Union system. One of them sends two humans to… read more

Similar categories in C.T. Rwizi's These Alien Skies (Black Stars, #4) book and Hari Ziyad's Black Boy Out of Time

  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. A Righteous Man

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

3.29

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A missionary in nineteenth-century Africa suffers a chilling crisis of faith in a short story about… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Skin and Its Girl

By: Sarah Cypher

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"

-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl

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19. They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

By: Neda Toloui-Semnani

3.79

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In They Said They Wanted Revolution, Neda Semnani tells the story of her parent —their love, the re… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Community

By: N. Jamiyla Chisholm

3.63

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. M to (WT)F: Twenty-Six of the Funniest Moments from My Transgender Journey

By: Samantha Allen

4.09

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length 3 hours and 18 minutes Samantha Allen, award-winning journalist and author of R… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's M to (WT)F: Twenty-Six of the Funniest Moments from My Transgender Journey book and Hari Ziyad's Black Boy Out of Time

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"What's wrong with me"? I wondered that night, but then I realized that something was right with me now."

-Samantha Allen, M to (WT)F: Twenty-Six of the Funniest Moments from My Transgender Journey

"Like I said, I wasn't the biggest fan of my body, but the good news about bodies is that they can change."

-Samantha Allen, M to (WT)F: Twenty-Six of the Funniest Moments from My Transgender Journey

"Documentaries about transgender women like to show us sitting in front of mirrors putting on makeup. In reality, a gender transition is mostly paperwork."

-Samantha Allen, M to (WT)F: Twenty-Six of the Funniest Moments from My Transgender Journey

"The thought of ending up as a married straight man with a wife and kids felt so disconnected from my internal desires that I—no joke— convinced myself that I was probably going to die in an airplane …"

-Samantha Allen, M to (WT)F: Twenty-Six of the Funniest Moments from My Transgender Journey

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22. The Secret Talker

By: Geling Yan

3.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Combining the dark twists of The Silent Patient with the unsettling beauty of The Vegetarian, a ten… read more

Similar categories in Geling Yan's The Secret Talker book and Hari Ziyad's Black Boy Out of Time

  • audiobook
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23. This Time for Me

By: Alexandra Billings

4.11

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies by Colin Kaepernick

24. Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies

By: Colin Kaepernick

4.44

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance,… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad

25. Black Boy Out of Time

By: Hari Ziyad

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists tod… read more

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  • audiobook
  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • queer
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26. Good Women

By: Halle Hill

3.96

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across th… read more

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  • audiobook
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27. Seven Devils (Seven Devils, #1)

By: L.R. Lam

3.93

Format: 458 pages, Hardcover

When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy's most r… read more

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  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Eris got the call from the commander while she was killing a man."

-L.R. Lam, Seven Devils (Seven Devils, #1)

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28. The Color of Family

By: Jerry McGill

3.63

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

A tragedy upends a family’s delicate balance in an emotional novel about secrets, guilt, friendship… read more

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  • african american
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. Daughter of Fire

By: Sofia Robleda

3.97

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people’s legacy is… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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30. I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir

By: Precious Brady-Davis

3.85

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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31. The One You Want to Marry [And Other Identities I've Had]

By: Sophie Santos

3.76

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilarious and heartfelt memoir about finding your true voice by Sophie Santos, the fearless comic… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult

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Transform Your Habits

The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

Nnedi Okorafor

3.78

Transform Your Habits

2043... a Merman I Should Turn to Be (Black Stars, #3)

Nisi Shawl

2.95

Transform Your Habits

Clap Back (Black Stars, #5)

Nalo Hopkinson

3.80

Transform Your Habits

This Way Out

Tufayel Ahmed

4.03

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Veronica Roth

3.86

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Ann Leckie

3.65

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Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

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John Scalzi

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