22 must-read biography books like Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere

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Cack-Handed: A Memoir

By: Gina Yashere

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit serie…

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1. The Turner House

By: Angela Flournoy

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

There ain't no haints in Detroit. So spoke Francis Turner--patriarch and provider, former preacher … read more

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2. Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation

By: Aisha Tyler

4.09

Format: None pages, ebook

In her book Self-Inflicted Wounds, comedian, actress, and cohost of CBS's daytime hit show The Talk… read more

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3. Just as I Am

By: Cicely Tyson

4.51

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"The most potent antidote to reticence is survival."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

"Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation."

-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

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4. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jones's Leslie F*cking Jones book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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5. 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 Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right by Ukamaka Olisakwe

6. Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right

By: Ukamaka Olisakwe

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadin… read more

Similar categories in Ukamaka Olisakwe's Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • africa
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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8. Us

By: Sara Soler

4.37

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

¿Qué pasa cuando la vida que tenías asumida da un giro de 180 grados? Nada... Y también todo. Us es… read more

Similar categories in Sara Soler's Us book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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9. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

By: Gareth Russell

4.21

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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10. Brutally Honest

By: Melanie Brown

4.06

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl – and the truth behind the headlines   … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams by Yvonne Orji

11. Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams

By: Yvonne Orji

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Insecure’s Yvonne Orji uses a modern-day Biblical blueprint to candidly and humorously share the tw… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg

12. 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 Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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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13. The World Record Book of Racist Stories

By: Amber Ruffin

4.40

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more

Similar categories in Amber Ruffin's The World Record Book of Racist Stories book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. That Moment When...: Life Stories From Way Back Then

By: Mo Gilligan

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There's Mo to life... In 2016 a totally broke Mo Gilligan recorded and posted a funny video online … read more

Similar categories in Mo Gilligan's That Moment When...: Life Stories From Way Back Then book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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15. Rebel Rising

By: Rebel Wilson

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

Cover of When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown by Kenan Thompson

16. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When I Was Your Age  is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more

Similar categories in Kenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Unprotected: A Memoir

By: Billy Porter

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Billy Porter, the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, Unprotected is a powerful … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Lenora was a Fosse girl. She had learned from the mater, the actual master himself. Fosse was a galvanizing choreographer, who fascinated and spoke directly to me for a range of reasons. The first wa…"

-Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

"Lenora was a Fosse girl. She had learned from the master, the actual master himself. Fosse was a galvanizing choreographer, who fascinated and spoke directly to me for a range of reasons. The first w…"

-Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

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18. Let Love Rule

By: Lenny Kravitz

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connect… read more

Similar categories in Lenny Kravitz's Let Love Rule book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. How to Love a Jamaican

By: Alexia Arthurs

3.85

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America for readers of Zadie… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image by Siobhan  Gallagher

20. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image

By: Siobhan Gallagher

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journe… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Gallagher's Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. Feast of Sparks (Thornchapel, #2)

By: Sierra Simone

3.88

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

I’m an outcast and a loner, named for death itself. Fate wasn’t supposed to have plans for me. B… read more

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  • lgbt
"I want more than lasting. I want endless. I want forever."

-Sierra Simone, Feast of Sparks (Thornchapel, #2)

"The soul of you, Poe, is a soul made for living, and living hurts most of all"

-Sierra Simone, Feast of Sparks (Thornchapel, #2)

"If we deserved the blessings we got, they wouldn’t be blessings, they’d be results."

-Sierra Simone, Feast of Sparks (Thornchapel, #2)

"but here and now, I am his supplicant, I am the unworthy worm on the steps of his temple, and the dazzling, dizzy clarity of that intoxicates me."

-Sierra Simone, Feast of Sparks (Thornchapel, #2)

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22. Harvest of Sighs (Thornchapel, #3)

By: Sierra Simone

4.04

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

The genius and the sunshine girl. As children, we fought bitterly and often, bickering every chance… read more

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  • lgbt
"Wasn’t it true that sometimes the most beautiful things in life were the most destructive, the most grasping?"

-Sierra Simone, Harvest of Sighs (Thornchapel, #3)

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23. I Curse You With Joy

By: Tiffany Haddish

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, I Curse You With Joy … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Representation isn’t just checking off boxes, it’s validating experience."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"What I was learning was, in its own fucked up way, no feelings was as bad as too many."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"I wish that men got endometriosis. If it was painful when they ejaculated, you know they would find a cure immediately and every doctor would know what to do to make it less painful, even a foot doct…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"Going through all that, taught me that you get to choose your response when you are afraid. You might not be able to control everything that happens to you but you do get to control how you respond t…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

Cover of Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson

24. Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

By: Phoebe Robinson

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a n… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Robinson's Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Survival of the Thickest: Essays by Michelle Buteau

25. Survival of the Thickest: Essays

By: Michelle Buteau

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and una… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David  Harewood

26. Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

By: David Harewood

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ma and Me by Putsata Reang

27. Ma and Me

By: Putsata Reang

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The memoir of a refugee caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she o… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Director's Cut by Carlyn Greenwald

28. Director's Cut

By: Carlyn Greenwald

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Oscar-winning Valeria Sullivan finds herself trapped in a battle of wits with a sexy professor, but… read more

Similar categories in Carlyn Greenwald's Director's Cut book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • lgbt
Cover of Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere

29. Cack-Handed: A Memoir

By: Gina Yashere

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit serie… read more

Similar categories in Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir book and Gina Yashere's Cack-Handed: A Memoir

  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Cuts Both Ways by Candice Brathwaite

30. Cuts Both Ways

By: Candice Brathwaite

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A sharp and funny YA love story that explores themes of race, class and the complexities of growing… read more

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Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

31. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

23 best-selling audiobook books like Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere

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Just as I Am

Cicely Tyson

4.51

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Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

4.11

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Worthy

Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

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Ukamaka Olisakwe

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Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

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I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

Harvey Fierstein

4.37

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RuPaul

3.84

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Brittney Griner

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