Sista Sister
By: Candice Brathwaite
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told w…
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1. Black and British: A Forgotten History
By: David Olusoga
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. How Do You Like Me Now?
By: Holly Bourne
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'Turning thirty is like playing musical chairs. The music stops, and everyone just marries whoever … read more
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3. Mad Girl
By: Bryony Gordon
2.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager … read more
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4. Fix the System, Not the Women
By: Laura Bates
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women
5. The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies
By: Deborah Frances-White
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my conc… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"Feminism has always been a request, or demand, for inclusion. Inclusion is the watchword of the second decade of the 21st century and in recent waves of feminism, but its nothing new."-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies
"First-wave feminism includes the terrifyingly brave suffragettes, who chained themselves to railings, blew up buildings, set fire to landmarks, and were force-fed horribly in prison, all so we could …"-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies
"Including each other is the basis of our survival. The cost of complete exclusion is our mental health. Inclusion is vital to humanity. So the question can only ever be: who is included and why? Wome…"-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies
"Feminism is a combination of social and political movements with a common goal to define, develop, and demand political, social, and fiscal rights for women. I'm sorry to tell you that a man coined t…"-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies
6. Queenie
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.86
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures a… read more
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- race
- audiobook
"Never trust a gemini man"-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Being brave isn’t the same as being okay."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I’ve ever met."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
"It's a family thing. It is an annoying and time-wasting thing."-Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
7. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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8. The Upper World (The Upper World, #1)
By: Femi Fadugba
3.65
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
If you had the chance to change your future, would you take it? This YA debut follows two teens,… read more
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"Any sentence starting with "why" or "how" is scary to someone. (pg. 11)"-Femi Fadugba, The Upper World (The Upper World, #1)
"We believed them. We knew no better and so when they told us it was all true, we believed them. Then it started to define us started to become real. (pg. 339)"-Femi Fadugba, The Upper World (The Upper World, #1)
"Enemy is the label we give to someone whose past and future we haven't seen yet, someone whose story hasn't been told. Everyone is better then their worse act."-Femi Fadugba, The Upper World (The Upper World, #1)
9. It's Not About the Burqa
By: Mariam Khan
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mari… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know."-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"In early Islam in seventh century Arabia, Muslim women were feisty and unafraid to fight for their rights. With the passing of the centuries, their dramatic progress stagnated and stalled, causing th…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"Dissecting the rishta sites quickly becomes me and Fiz's favorite pastime. 'Look at this one, Fiz, look at this one. "i am looking for simple, obedient girl." Vom!' 'Why doesn't he just advertise for…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
"Revolutions 'go too far': if your community is ready for you, then you are too late. You must challenge your community. You must throw down the gauntlet of freedom to your community and dare it to ac…"-Mariam Khan, It's Not About the Burqa
10. MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
By: Paloma Faith
4.06
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
'The most raw, funny and liberating look at what it is to be a woman.' – FEARNE COTTON'Gritty, funn… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
11. How (Not) To Be Strong
By: Alex Scott
4.43
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
From the football cages of East London to broadcasting to millions, the engine powering Alex Scott'… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
12. Quite
By: Claudia Winkleman
4.04
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Funny, moving and truthful… Quite Claudia Winkleman’s warmth, humour, no-holds-barred attitude a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
13. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
14. Rainbow Milk
By: Paul Mendez
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more
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- race
15. Sunset
By: Jessie Cave
4.11
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
The debut adult novel from Jessie Cave is a spry yet reflective comedy of sisterhood, loneliness an… read more
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- audiobook
16. People Person
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more
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- race
- audiobook
17. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
19. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
By: Emma Dabiri
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
20. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
By: Afua Hirsch
4.32
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
21. 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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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
By: Cyntoia Brown-Long
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brow… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"..forgiveness doesn't mean someone needs to be part of your life. Forgiveness doesn't mean welcoming someone in with open arms, regardless of the fact that they continue to hurt you."-Cyntoia Brown-Long, Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
23. I Wish I Knew This Earlier: Lessons on Love
By: Toni Tone
3.99
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** We’ve all been on promising dates that left us feeling worse in the l… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- essays
- audiobook
24. Keisha the Sket
By: Jade LB
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Where were you when Keisha the Sket first broke the internet? Keisha is a girl from the ends, sh… read more
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- race
25. The Louder I Will Sing
By: Lee Lawrence
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
From an explosive new literary talent, a searing, moving memoir of family, adolescence and sexualit… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"We're thinking, does life owe us anything. Did we get it wrong? And time is an animal, man. The years. Time is killing us it has us in its teeth."-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
"Time is an illusion, say the scientists. It is molecular, it is bendable or liquid, it is soldered metal; or it is droplets of memory. I imagine it looks like mercury, silver and elusive...Burn all t…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
"I am somewhere else now. I am part human, part metaphysics, and I still haven't worked out which parts of me are which. I love this new form. I can feel space traveling through me. I am porous and wo…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
27. The Situationship
By: Taylor-Dior Rumble
3.35
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When the love of her life shows up with a girlfriend, Tia decides it's time to put herself out ther… read more
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- audiobook
28. Sista Sister
By: Candice Brathwaite
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told w… read more
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- race
- personal development
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
29. For Such a Time as This
By: Shani Akilah
4.12
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
Gabby and Daniel cross paths at the wedding of a mutual friend. They both wonder if this could be t… read more
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30. How Not to be a Supermodel: A noughties memoir
By: Ruth Crilly
4.14
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!*THE MUST-READ NOUGHTIES NOSTALGIA MEMOIR*'Hilarious' CAITLIN MO… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
31. Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children
By: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Ba… read more
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- race
- biography
- essays
