The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story
By: Ebony Roberts
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in lov…
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1. Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
By: Patricia Williams , Jeannine Amber
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
You want to know about the struggle of growing up poor, black and female? Ask any girl from any hoo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Is this for someone special?" asked the saleslady as she folded my purchase in layers of tissue paper. "For my mama," I said proudly. "She dead."-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
"Mama didn’t trust a doctor, so whenever something was wrong with one of her kids, she liked to do the diagnosing herself by asking a million questions and then taking a wild guess."-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
"When most folks think about the problems of growing up in the hood, they think about what it must feel like to be poor, or hungry, or to have your lights cut off. The struggle nobody talk about is wh…"-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
2. We the Animals
By: Justin Torres
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more
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- audiobook
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
3. The Rose That Grew from Concrete
By: Tupac Shakur
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
This collection of more than 100 poems that honestly and artfully confront topics ranging from pove… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
4. Writing My Wrongs
By: Shaka Senghor
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
In 1991, at the age of nineteen, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was a young drug dealer wi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Addicted
By: Zane
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
For successful African-American businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way … read more
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6. Flyy Girl (Flyy Girl, #1)
By: Omar Tyree
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
The bestselling urban classic novel about a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s. Tracy Elli… read more
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7. The Coldest Winter Ever
By: Sister Souljah
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The stunning national bestseller now features an illuminating discussion with Sister Souljah -- her… read more
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8. Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
By: Bernice L. McFadden
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
"Strong and folksy storytelling...think Zora Neale Hurston...Sugarspeaks of what is real." --The Da… read more
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9. The Book of Harlan
By: Bernice L. McFadden
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
During World War II, two African American musicians are captured by the Nazis in Paris and imprison… read more
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11. Sorrowland
By: Rivers Solomon
3.83
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more
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- audiobook
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland
12. Hold You Down
By: Tracy Brown
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties t… read more
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- audiobook
13. Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing
By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
4.38
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this captivating family drama from award-winning, bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, … read more
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- audiobook
14. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. All I've Wanted All I've Needed
By: A.E. Valdez
4.35
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
Harlow Shaw feels naïve for believing in happily ever afters but she craves a love that lights her … read more
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- love
- audiobook
16. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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- audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
17. Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
By: Kennedy Ryan
4.36
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasme… read more
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- audiobook
"Fuck them ribs."-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
"We said till death do us part."-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
"No one in my whole life has ever hurt me like you did."-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
18. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
19. More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
By: Elaine Welteroth
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We fell into a different kind of love. One that was sturdier, safer, and more like home than anything I'd ever experienced."-Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
"When the topic of self-care came up, Eve, an academic, writer and visual artist said "There is no glory in a grind that literally grinds you down to dust"."-Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
"As a culture, we love a celebration. We love a first. We hold them high. We all marvel at headlines and highlight reels. But we rarely discuss the marks and scars and bruises that come with breaking …"-Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
"When the music changes, so must your dance. It was the most beautifully worded truth, a profound lesson reminding me to trust my instincts, to let life guide me, and to never stay anywhere doing the …"-Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
20. 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
21. The House of Eve
By: Sadeqa Johnson
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more
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- audiobook
22. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
By: Linda Villarosa
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
By: Sarah Berman
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more sec… read more
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- audiobook
24. When We Were Birds
By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
3.79
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two u… read more
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"You feeling the thing that in my mother, and her mother and hers, calling to the thing that is you, and in your daughter (...), and in her daughter and hers."-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
"When the last feather has gone, and your woman body has grown full, remember that you remain a bird inside. You have not forgotten how to fly. For what is more woman than holding death and life, sky …"-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
25. My Love Story
By: Tina Turner
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Tina Turner—the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend—sets the record straight about… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
By: Megan Phelps-Roper
4.16
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many… read more
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"You know I love you. You know I do. It's not just the idea of you. I know you. You also know I'm not coming to Topeka."-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
"It is disconcerting - shamefully, unimaginably so - to look back and accept that my fellow church members and I were collectively engaging in the most egregious display of logical blindness that I ha…"-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
27. Swimming Back to Trout River
By: Linda Rui Feng
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE How many times in life can we start over with… read more
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28. Hurricane Summer
By: Asha Ashanti Bromfield
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves… read more
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"Sometimes little girls must become their own heroes."-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer
"Mom says you get two birthdays. The first one is the day you are born. The second one is the day you leave home and give birth to yourself."-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer
"When they ask me how I weathered the storm, I will tell them I did not. I was ravished like the zinc houses and devoured like the soil as it swallowed itself whole. I was ruined. I was disaster. I wa…"-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer
"We watch as the rain pummels the land, tearing apart houses and sheds and wiping out what has been so perfectly crafted. Objects crash into one another, and there is an evolution to their madness as …"-Asha Ashanti Bromfield, Hurricane Summer
29. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)
By: Danielle Allen
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more
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30. The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story
By: Ebony Roberts
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in lov… read more
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- african american literature
- biography
- love
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom
By: Shaka Senghor
4.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of h… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
