American Negra: A Memoir
By: Natasha S. Alford
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African…
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1. The Flower Sisters
By: Michelle Collins Anderson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Drawing on the little-known true story of a tragic event that took place in the author’s Missouri h… read more
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"Sometimes I think spring lasts about fifteen minutes around here and then we're all sitting on Hell's front porch."-Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters
2. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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3. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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4. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
5. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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6. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
By: Tia Williams
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more
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"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
7. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
By: Trish O'Kane
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more
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8. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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9. The God of Good Looks
By: Breanne Mc Ivor
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more
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10. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
By: Deborah Jackson Taffa
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more
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"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
11. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
By: Whoopi Goldberg
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more
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"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
12. The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
By: ReShonda Tate
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one … read more
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- audiobook
13. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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14. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- audiobook
15. Familia
By: Lauren E. Rico
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more
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16. The Things We Didn’t Know
By: Elba Iris Pérez
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more
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17. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
By: Amanda Jones
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more
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18. The Good Ones Are Taken
By: Taj McCoy
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When Maggie's best friend admits he's in love with her, she'll have to decide whether it's worth gi… read more
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19. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
By: Briony Cameron
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more
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20. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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21. By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words
By: April Simpkins
4.18
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before he… read more
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22. American Negra: A Memoir
By: Natasha S. Alford
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African… read more
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23. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
By: Clay Cane
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republic… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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25. 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
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26. Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America
By: Helen Tworkov
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the woman who helped introduce Buddhism to the West and founded Tricycle magazine comes a bril… read more
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- memoir
27. Withered
By: A.G.A. Wilmot
3.67
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
A queer paranormal psychological horror novel, in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing t… read more
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28. Immortal Dark
By: Tigest Girma
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost… read more
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29. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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30. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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31. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By: Ina Garten
4.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling co… read more
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