An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir
By: Ursula Pike
3.88
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her two years of service…
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1. Tales of Burning Love
By: Louise Erdrich
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In her boldest and most darkly humorous novel yet, award-winning, critically acclaimed and bestsell… read more
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2. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
3. Take My Hand
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.37
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in po… read more
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"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
4. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
5. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
6. Hell of a Book
By: Jason Mott
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his … read more
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"Because God needs the little people more than he needs anyone"-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"The modern author is only as important as their search results."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"From his perspective, Daddy Henry was a nice enough collection of wrinkles."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"I know all the smells: humidity, pine trees, thinly veiled racism. It’s what home feels like for me."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
7. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
8. The Chinese Groove
By: Kathryn Ma
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more
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9. Huda F Are You?
By: Huda Fahmy
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the… read more
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"Use your hijab, woman! Cover that forehead!"-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?
"I swear if we end up getting joint weddings, we're running away."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3)
By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
3.54
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime fo… read more
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11. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
12. 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
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
13. Good Night, Irene
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.14
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more
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"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene
14. Banyan Moon
By: Thao Thai
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
15. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
16. She Is a Haunting
By: Trang Thanh Tran
3.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more
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"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting
"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting
"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting
"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could'v…"-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting
17. Any Other Family
By: Eleanor Brown
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more
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"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
18. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
By: Rabia Chaudry
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate me… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Every person, I'd argue, has the right to pursue what feeling good means to them."-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
"But when I dug deeper, I realized the self-loathing was less about what I looked like on the outside, and more about feeling out of control and helpless."-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
19. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
By: Layla F. Saad
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that the… read more
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- nonfiction
"You do not have to be the loudest voice. But you do need to use your voice."-Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
20. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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21. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
22. Laziness Does Not Exist
By: Devon Price
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human … read more
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- nonfiction
"If someone's behavior makes no sense to us, passing judgment on it feels very natural."-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"This tendency to blame people for their own pain is comforting, in a twisted way: it allows us to close up our hearts and ignore the suffering of others."-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"We live in a world where hard work is rewarded and having needs and limitations is seen as a source of shame. It's no wonder so many of us are constantly overexerting ourselves, saying yes out of fea…"-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"If you're entitled to moments of rest, of imperfection, of laziness and sloth, then so are homeless people, and people with depression, and people who are addicted to drugs. If your life has value no…"-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
23. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
24. Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
By: Rita Chang-Eppig
3.49
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a… read more
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25. The Roommate Risk (The Midnight Heat Collection, #2)
By: Talia Hibbert
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes an electric, domestic, roommates-to-love… read more
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"Rahul didn't count himself certain of many things. There was his life plan, which could be summed up as study and succeed; his beloved family; his numbers, which would never deceive him. And now, app…"-Talia Hibbert, The Roommate Risk (The Midnight Heat Collection, #2)
26. Brooms
By: Jasmine Walls
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more
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27. Lucky Red
By: Claudia Cravens
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more
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28. My Broken Language
By: Quiara Alegría Hudes
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age aga… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"God is the opiate of the masses."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"She was made of exclamation points."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"Writing's a muscle... it gets stronger."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
"Maybe midnight was the hour of answers."-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language
29. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
By: Tiya Miles
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
30. Anywhere You Run
By: Wanda M. Morris
4.05
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful nov… read more
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31. An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir
By: Ursula Pike
3.88
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her two years of service… read more
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- memoir
- the united states of america
- travel
- native american
- bolivia
- indigenous
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
