Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong
By: Georgina Lawton
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—thr…
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1. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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2. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By: Asha Bandele , Patrisse Khan-Cullors
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the moveme… read more
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3. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
4. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Carroll
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful st… read more
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5. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live
By: Kris Hallenga
4.59
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Kris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-year-old: travelling the world, falling in … read more
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- audiobook
7. Just Sayin': My Life In Words
By: Malorie Blackman
4.53
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more
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- memoir
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"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words
8. How to Be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.37
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
"Racist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"I use “anticapitalist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
9. My Name Is Why
By: Lemn Sissay
4.29
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more
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10. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
By: Kerry Hudson
4.15
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo… read more
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"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
11. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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12. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
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"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
13. 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
14. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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- nonfiction
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
15. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
By: Jeff Yang
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Cultural critic Jeff Yang, blogger Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man, and Wong Fu Productions’ Philip Wang… read more
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"If you go to an “Asian American and Pacific Islander"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
"The project was already in development before I joined the division. I was at Touchstone Pictures in live action, and I had heard that they were doing Mulan, it was picking up heat, and they were int…"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
"American culture tends to see Asians as weak and in need of white people to come save us. That’s especially true in pop culture about the Vietnam War. The narrative is all about what Americans went t…"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
16. Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
By: Gabrielle Moss
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A hilarious and nostalgic trip through the history of paperback pre-teen series of the '80s and '90… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
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18. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]
By: Chelsea Devantez
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more
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19. How We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
4.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir … read more
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"Some songs take women places men cannot follow."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"Everyone has a lie we’re quietly waiting to believe."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"I will say for myself: America, I did the best I could with what I was given."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
"The only thing worse than being a disaster is being a disaster with a witness."-Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives
20. I Am Not Your Baby Mother
By: Candice Brathwaite
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience … read more
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21. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
By: Stephen Buoro
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Crackling with energy and intelligence, this debut is the story of Andrew Aziza, a one-of-a-kind te… read more
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- audiobook
22. The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in
By: Ayser Salman
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An Immigrant Love-Hate Story of What it Means to Be American . "A rare voice that is both relatable… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
23. Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods
By: Otegha Uwagba
4.58
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, w… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
24. The Disenchantment
By: Celia Bell
3.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish t… read more
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25. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
By: Tiya Miles
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more
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- audiobook
26. Is She Really Going Out with Him?
By: Sophie Cousens
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs love when s… read more
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27. Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong
By: Georgina Lawton
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—thr… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- family
- sociology
- audiobook
28. Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
By: Kylie Lee Baker
4.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"A compelling, gory, ghostly romp." —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Mo… read more
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29. A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer (S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery, #1)
By: Maxie Dara
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sometimes it takes working with the dead to start living. Kathy Valence is forty-two, mid-divo… read more
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30. Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race
By: Remi Adekoya
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Mixed-race people are the fastest-growing minority group in Britain. According to some projections,… read more
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