16 Best memoir books like The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams

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The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal

By: Brian H. Williams

4.43

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force that diagnoses the structural root of the violence that plagues us all Trauma su…

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1. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Harriet A. Washington

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more

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Cover of Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Arline T. Geronimus

2. Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

By: Arline T. Geronimus

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers… read more

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  • race
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon A. Nahvi

3. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

By: Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit by Stephen M. Cohn

5. All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

By: Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, … read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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8. 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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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg

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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  • biography
  • 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

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12. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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13. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

14. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

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  • memoir
  • audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Cover of The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop by Judson Brewer

15. The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop

By: Judson Brewer

3.90

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • health
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16. Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School

By: Tiffany Jewell

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid , … read more

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  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

17. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Cover of Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze by Karla Deel

18. Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze

By: Karla Deel

3.57

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Kansas City—the best town this side of Hell. The Paris of the Plains. Home to the Wette… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning by Peter J. Hotez

19. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning

By: Peter J. Hotez

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th by Harry  Dunn

20. Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th

By: Harry Dunn

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one… read more

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  • biography
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  • audiobook
Cover of Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field by Deion Sanders

21. Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field

By: Deion Sanders

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Coach Prime—famed Pro Football Hall of Famer, two-time Super Bowl–winning NFL player, head football… read more

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Cover of An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children by Jamaica Kincaid

22. An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

By: Jamaica Kincaid

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascination and hidd… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

23. Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways

By: Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

4.09

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely, delightfully readable, and much-needed book. --Booklist, starred review Social justice w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

24. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

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  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
Cover of What the Taliban Told Me by Ian Fritz

25. What the Taliban Told Me

By: Ian Fritz

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When … read more

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  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up by Margaret Wappler

26. A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up

By: Margaret Wappler

3.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly … read more

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  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Correa told him that people, including fictional ones, grieve in different ways. You can be a puddle of tears. Or angry and punch a wall. Or quiet with seemingly no reaction. It is nobody's business.…"

-Margaret Wappler, A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up

Cover of What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry by Stephanie Saldana

27. What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry

By: Stephanie Saldana

4.45

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Eggplant seeds, a lullaby in a vanishing language, an embroidered dress. When people flee their hom… read more

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  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World by Sarah DiGregorio

28. Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

By: Sarah DiGregorio

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“DiGregorio’s storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams

29. The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal

By: Brian H. Williams

4.43

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force that diagnoses the structural root of the violence that plagues us all Trauma su… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Come Home Safe by Brian G. Buckmire

30. Come Home Safe

By: Brian G. Buckmire

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn’t commit. Come Home Safe explores … read more

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  • race
  • social justice
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Cover of The Bachelorette Party by Sandra  Block

31. The Bachelorette Party

By: Sandra Block

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A true crime devotee gets more than she bargained for at her killer bachelorette party. Everything… read more

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  • audiobook

27 best-selling audiobook books like The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal by Brian H. Williams

Transform Your Habits

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Arline T. Geronimus

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

Ricardo Nuila

4.38

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All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

Stephen M. Cohn

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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

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You Never Know: A Memoir

Tom Selleck

4.05

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If You Would Have Told Me

John Stamos

3.81

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Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Crystal Hefner

3.73

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