7 must-read parenting books like Parenting for Liberation by Trina Greene Brown

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Parenting for Liberation

By: Trina Greene Brown

4.44

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Speaking directly to parents raising Black children in a world of police brutality, racialized viol…

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1. What I Know for Sure

By: Oprah Winfrey

4.14

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Our beliefs can move us forward in life - or they can hold us back."

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift."

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself; when you're aware of all you have"

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"Say "Thank You" because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that what ever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God…"

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

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2. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anti racist
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3. Mom & Me & Mom

By: Maya Angelou

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled in her … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
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5. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

By: Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish , Kimberly Ann Coe

3.06

Format: 220 pages,

Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your chi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens

6. A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

3.72

Format: 134 pages,

Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehab… read more

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7. Letter to My Daughter

By: Maya Angelou

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wi… read more

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8. Sold

By: Patricia McCormick

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when t… read more

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9. The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting

By: Shefali Tsabary

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." --Oprah Winfrey New from the New York … read more

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10. A Piece of Cake

By: Cupcake Brown

4.24

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!"

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

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11. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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12. If I Had Your Face

By: Frances Cha

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extr… read more

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" For my mother, who taught me how to hold on to a dream "

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing."

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached and touch…"

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and t…"

-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

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13. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

By: Becky Kennedy

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
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14. The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

By: Daniel J. Siegel

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Parenting isn't easy. Showing up is. Your greatest impact begins right where you are. Now the bests… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
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15. No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

By: Daniel J. Siegel

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
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16. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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17. Olga Dies Dreaming

By: Xóchitl González

3.98

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more

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"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"

-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

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18. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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19. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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20. Notes on Grief

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.22

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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21. Somebody's Daughter

By: Ashley C. Ford

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm j…"

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

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22. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

By: Andrea Elliott

4.72

Format: 602 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more

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  • nonfiction
".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"

-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

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23. All Boys Aren’t Blue

By: George M. Johnson

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"History has an interesting way of painting."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

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24. Grown

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another ripped-from-the-headlines mystery that exposes horrific … read more

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25. By the Book (Meant to Be, #2)

By: Jasmine Guillory

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A tale as old as time—for a new generation…Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her ca… read more

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"When she found the bookstore, she walked inside, then stopped and took a long, happy breath."

-Jasmine Guillory, By the Book (Meant to Be, #2)

"When she finally left the bookstore, it was with two new books in her bag, a smile on her face, and a warm, happy feeling in her chest."

-Jasmine Guillory, By the Book (Meant to Be, #2)

"She loved that moment when she walked into a bookstore. Books were stacked everywhere, with friendly little signs directing you to local authors or signed copies or bestsellers."

-Jasmine Guillory, By the Book (Meant to Be, #2)

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26. All Her Little Secrets

By: Wanda M. Morris

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets … read more

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"If I were in trouble, Lana would bring a casserole to my house and help me find a good lawyer. Grace would bring a gallon of bleach, a tarp, and a couple of shovels."

-Wanda M. Morris, All Her Little Secrets

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27. 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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  • nonfiction
"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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28. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anti racist
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29. Jackal

By: Erin E. Adams

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the fi… read more

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"When your name is in other people's mouths, they twist it up. They make you into something you are not. When people take you outside yourself, that is when trouble comes."

-Erin E. Adams, Jackal

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30. Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

By: Tunde Oyeneyin

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Tunde Oyeneyin, the massively popular Peloton instructor, fitness star, and founder of SPEAK, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Life is short and everything is temporary."

-Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

"The best way to change was to make changes."

-Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

"My mind was my most powerful asset and my strongest muscle."

-Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

"I can picture it, easily, but I would have liked to see it."

-Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

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31. Parenting for Liberation

By: Trina Greene Brown

4.44

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Speaking directly to parents raising Black children in a world of police brutality, racialized viol… read more

Similar categories in Trina Greene Brown's Parenting for Liberation book and Trina Greene Brown's Parenting for Liberation

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • anti racist

6 best-selling childrens books like Parenting for Liberation by Trina Greene Brown

Transform Your Habits

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

4.44

Transform Your Habits

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish , Kimberly Ann Coe

3.06

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

Transform Your Habits

The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

Daniel J. Siegel

4.28

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8 best-selling queer books like Unprotected: A Memoir by Billy Porter

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

Harvey Fierstein

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Coming Home

Brittney Griner

4.43

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