Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging
By: Vanessa A. Bee
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A cross between Memorial Drive and Crying in H-Mart, Vanessa A. Bee defies memoir conventions in Ho…
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1. Men We Reaped: A Memoir
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came t… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned his body and those he fought into meticulously constructed machines."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts. In death, they transcend he circumstances of this place that I l…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Some of them were my friends, and they never took up for me, for Black people, when I was in the room. And according to what some of them told me in private conversation, they didn't when I wasn't in…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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3. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
4. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
5. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
6. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
7. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Hive and the Honey: Stories
By: Paul Yoon
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times , Time , and Literary Hub most-anticipated book of the fall. From the beloved a… read more
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"We have this life, and then we become something else. Wouldn't you agree? You have had this life but soon, tomorrow, you will become someone else, with someone else. You mustn't be afraid of change l…"-Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey: Stories
9. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
10. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
11. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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12. Hard by a Great Forest
By: Leo Vardiashvili
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more
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13. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
3.90
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more
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"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
14. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
15. Daughters of Shandong
By: Eve J. Chung
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more
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16. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
17. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
18. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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- nonfiction
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
20. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
By: Shannon Gibney
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often sur… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
By: Alejandra Oliva
4.25
Format: 320 pages, None
The Undocumented Americans meets Tell Me How It Ends in this chronicle about translation, storytell… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
22. The World Wasn't Ready for You
By: Justin C. Key
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Black Mirror meets Get Out in this gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. … read more
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23. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
By: Dahlia Lithwick
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more
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- nonfiction
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
24. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
25. Happy
By: Celina Baljeet Basra
3.64
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural … read more
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26. All Your Children, Scattered
By: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
4.15
Format: 192 pages, ebook
WINNER OF THE PRIX ETHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS D… read more
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27. 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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28. Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging
By: Vanessa A. Bee
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A cross between Memorial Drive and Crying in H-Mart, Vanessa A. Bee defies memoir conventions in Ho… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
29. 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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30. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
By: Peter Hessler
4.56
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Two-Step Devil
By: Jamie Quatro
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times Notable "writer of great originality" comes a bold novel about love, faith an… read more
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