19 must-read memoir books like A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

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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…

If you liked the memoir plot in A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter

1. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Cover of Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith

2. Worthy

By: Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more

Similar categories in Jada Pinkett Smith's Worthy book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

3. 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

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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

Cover of Thicker than Water: A Memoir by Kerry Washington

4. Thicker than Water: A Memoir

By: Kerry Washington

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water: A Memoir book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

5. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • audiobook
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
Cover of Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay

6. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

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  • race
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie  Smith

7. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Cover of Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation by Geena Rocero

8. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation

By: Geena Rocero

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more

Similar categories in Geena Rocero's Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."

-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation

"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"

-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation

"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"

-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation

"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"

-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation

Cover of Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg

9. 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

Similar categories in Whoopi Goldberg's Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski

10. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

By: Emily Nagoski

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • audiobook
Cover of Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo

11. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • audiobook
  • race
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • queer
Cover of Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur

12. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

Similar categories in Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes

13. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson

14. How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

By: Shayla Lawson

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose....… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You by A'ja Wilson

15. Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You

By: A'ja Wilson

4.58

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A’ja Wilson comes an inspiratio… read more

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  • race
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan

16. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

By: Jennifer Mullan

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more

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  • audiobook
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
Cover of He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

17. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

By: Schuyler Bailar

4.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

18. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance by EbonyJanice Moore

19. 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

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  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation by Raquel Willis

20. The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

By: Raquel Willis

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of tra… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

21. 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 Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • race
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • queer
Cover of Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community by Joy Harden Bradford

22. Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community

By: Joy Harden Bradford

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the licensed clinical psychologist behind the award-winning podcast Therapy for Black Girls co… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harden Bradford's Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community book and Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • audiobook
Cover of What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

23. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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  • audiobook
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
Cover of I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays by Michael Arceneaux

24. I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

By: Michael Arceneaux

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux returns with a hilarious collection of essays a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
Cover of Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson

25. Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

By: Jenn M. Jackson

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is … read more

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  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

26. Imagination: A Manifesto

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of strug… read more

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  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble by Deesha Dyer

27. Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble

By: Deesha Dyer

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When Deesha Dyer applied for a White House internship, she was 31, a community college student and … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives by Sami Sage

28. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

By: Sami Sage

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"

-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

Cover of Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico by Noé Álvarez

29. Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico

By: Noé Álvarez

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed f… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson

30. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

By: Kellie Carter Jackson

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership by Brea Baker

31. Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

By: Brea Baker

4.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A powerful history of the impact of land theft and violent displacement on Black communities in the… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

27 Best audiobook books like A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

Transform Your Habits

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Worthy

Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H.

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Thicker than Water: A Memoir

Kerry Washington

3.87

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Transform Your Habits

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Third University Is Possible (Forerunners: Ideas First)

La Paperson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes

4.64

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