9 best-selling essays books like I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays by Michael Arceneaux

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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…

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1. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

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  • audiobook
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2. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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3. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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4. Ours

By: Phillip B. Williams

3.84

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that dem… read more

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  • audiobook
"In Ours, the grass that grows is sharp. It gleams at its edges, such that when the buttery light of spring falls into it, the light cries out and yellow pours slowly over the earth."

-Phillip B. Williams, Ours

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5. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"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

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6. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • memoir
  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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7. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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8. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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9. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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10. 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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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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11. The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

By: Tracie McMillan

3.72

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the c… read more

Similar categories in Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • nonfiction
Cover of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas

12. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Byas's I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • nonfiction
Cover of Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

13. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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14. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

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

15. 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

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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16. Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words

By: Anne Curzan

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the g… read more

Similar categories in Anne Curzan's Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • lgbt
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18. 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

Similar categories in Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays book and Michael Arceneaux's I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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19. Hombrecito

By: Santiago Jose Sanchez

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more

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  • lgbt
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20. Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

By: Laci Mosley

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious, delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning “… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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21. Who's That Girl?: A Memoir

By: Eve.

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated ra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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Renée Watson

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