9 Best memoir books like Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future by Joel Leon

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Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

By: Joel Leon

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For Readers of Heavy , Punch Me Up to The Gods , and A Little Devil in America , a beautiful, painf…

"To be black is to be seen by everyone and no one at all."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"To be black is to be seen by everyone and no one at all."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"Blackness is love, to me. To be loved is also very Black."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"Blackness is love, to me. To be loved is also very Black."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

If you liked the memoir plot in Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future by Joel Leon , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • race
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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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3. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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4. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

By: Briony Cameron

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more

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  • historical
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5. Daughter of the Merciful Deep

By: Leslye Penelope

4.01

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historic… read more

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  • historical
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6. 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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7. A Pair of Wings

By: Carole Hopson

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woma… read more

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  • historical
  • race
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8. Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide

By: Mae Bunseng Taing

4.49

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A courageous and poignant memoir of one young man’s daring escape from Cambodia’s genocidal regime … read more

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  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Blood at the Root

By: LaDarrion Williams

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he nev… read more

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10. Do What Godmother Says

By: L.S. Stratton

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secre… read more

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11. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

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  • race
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

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12. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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  • historical
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13. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...

By: Jason Reynolds

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be, should be… read more

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14. Rediscover Your Wisdom: Drawing on Answers from Your Past to Achieve Self-improvement, Growth, and Success

By: Rabbi Joel Stein

4.59

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

In Rediscover Your Wisdom Rabbi Joel Stein reveals a profound truth: the challenges that weigh on y… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

By: Joseph Earl Thomas

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, unsparing debut novel about black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intima… read more

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  • race
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16. Kiss and Spell (Elemental Love, #2)

By: Celestine Martin

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A witch without a spell All Ursula Caraway wished for was to live happily ever after in her hometo… read more

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17. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The World After Alice

By: Lauren Aliza Green

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of … read more

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19. Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

By: Joel Leon

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For Readers of Heavy , Punch Me Up to The Gods , and A Little Devil in America , a beautiful, painf… read more

Similar categories in Joel Leon's Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future book and Joel Leon's Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

  • race
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"To be black is to be seen by everyone and no one at all."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"Blackness is love, to me. To be loved is also very Black."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"There is almost always something at stake, something to live for and fight for."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

"Bet ya’ moms woulda twerked for MLK if he came down 138th and the Grand Concourse."

-Joel Leon, Everything and Nothing at Once: A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future

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20. Tax Alpha Solutions: Effective Tax Management Strategies for High-Net-Worth Investors

By: Matthew Chancey

4.63

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world full of financial headlines, it can be tough for high earners to find the right tax solu… read more

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21. Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen

By: Jon M. Chu

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From visionary director Jon M. Chu comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. Sacrificial Animals

By: Kailee Pedersen

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more

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"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"

-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

23. 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
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. Someday Is Today: Achieving Racial Equity in the Workplace

By: Allison Manswell

4.36

Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition

A critical follow-up to Listen Crucial Conversations on Race in the Workplace In Someday Is Tod… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice

By: Natalie Goldberg

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and teacher Natalie Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a deva… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. Unhappy Achiever: Rejecting the Good Girl Image and Reclaiming the Joy of Inner Fulfillment

By: Ashley Jordan

3.90

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Unhappy Achiever is a story of healing, of revolutionary awakening--of what happens when we summon … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Hearts United in Faith (Hearts United, #1) by Karen Kazimer Shockley

27. Hearts United in Faith (Hearts United, #1)

By: Karen Kazimer Shockley

4.00

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

Good morning, Daddy. Daddy, is Mommy coming back today?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper.His w… read more

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28. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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29. Why Did Kaden Accept the Challenge?

By: Janis Hennessey

4.04

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

“Why Did Kaden Accept The Challenge?” is the third adventure in the page-turner “Why Did” series. K… read more

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30. Más barato que un divorcio: 15 minutos para salvar tu relación

By: Chava Gutiérrez

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Descubre cómo salvar y transformar tu relación en solo 15 minutos aldía leyendo un capítulo. Este i… read more

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"la gente no hace lo mejor que puede, hacer lo mejor que sabe, porque cuando sabes más, puedes más"

-Chava Gutiérrez, Más barato que un divorcio: 15 minutos para salvar tu relación

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Briony Cameron

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Daughter of the Merciful Deep

Leslye Penelope

4.01

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A Pair of Wings

Carole Hopson

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide

Mae Bunseng Taing

4.49

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Last House

Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Transform Your Habits

By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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