Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s (Black Britain Writing Back)
By: Barbara Blake Hannah
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and …
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1. The Last Holiday
By: Gil Scott-Heron
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream. And Stevie Wonder had a dream. This is a book about dreams." I… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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3. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.37
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
4. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
By: Amanda Gorman
4.56
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more
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- nonfiction
"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- british literature
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
6. Love After Love
By: Ingrid Persaud
4.07
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irre… read more
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"Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth."-Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love
7. In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black #1)
By: Lola Akinmade Åkerström
3.82
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
An AMAZON Best of the Month Pick Good Morning America (GMA) Book Club Buzz Pick Finalist - 20… read more
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"Privilege comes in levels, Brit,"-Lola Akinmade Åkerström, In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black #1)
8. Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good … read more
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9. Idol
By: Louise O'Neill
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's eve… read more
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"But she'd clawed her way out of addiction because she believed that she was destined for greater things than an undignified death slumped over a toilet cistern"-Louise O'Neill, Idol
10. The Unheard
By: Nicci French
3.51
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author, a single mother … read more
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11. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
12. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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- nonfiction
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
14. Friend Request
By: Laura Marshall
3.76
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn't she?1989. When Louise first notic… read more
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15. Butter Honey Pig Bread
By: Francesca Ekwuyasi
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more
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"Death is only a doorway."-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
16. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
17. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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18. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
19. The Second Chance Store
By: Lauren Bravo
3.61
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more
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20. 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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- british literature
21. Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
4.11
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with… read more
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"Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn’t know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it."-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"César picks it up and pulls out a chicken by its neck. Welcome to America, he says. He hands it to me. I look into its glassed-over eyes. . . . I've held plenty of chickens before, plucked, chopped, …"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"When Juan gets mad, it's as if my dependence on him fuels the transformation in his body from concern, to anger, to fury. The veins in his neck swell, his eyes bulge, and he yells, You want trouble f…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
"Puffer fish inflate into a ball when they feel threatened as a warning to predators. The males work endlessly on designing their territories to attract a mate. Burrowing diligently with their fins, r…"-Angie Cruz, Dominicana
22. 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
23. Girlcrush
By: Florence Given
2.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
GIRLCRUSH is a dark feminist comedy by bestselling author Florence Given. In Given's debut novel… read more
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24. The Black Flamingo
By: Dean Atta
4.35
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his w… read more
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"Don’t let anyone tell you that you are half anything."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"Be a bit gay, be very gay. Be the glitter that shows up in unexpected places."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"I know that’s wrong, my thinking was wrong, the different ones are often the most strong"-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
"To have a loving family is to feel afraid and yet believe you are going to be all right."-Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
25. Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
By: Bernardine Evaristo
3.98
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's m… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren."-Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
26. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
27. A Drag Queen’s Guide to Life
By: Bimini Bon Boulash
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bimini Bon Boulash is the nation's sweetheart, capturing hearts and minds as the gag-inducing, deat… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
28. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
4.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
29. 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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30. Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s (Black Britain Writing Back)
By: Barbara Blake Hannah
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- british literature
31. Britons Through Negro Spectacles (Black Britain Writing Back)
By: A.B.C. Merriman-Labor
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A riotous, witty travelogue documenting the author's experiences in Britain in the early 1900s, fro… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
