10 must-read memoir books like Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood by Jay Ellis

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Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

By: Jay Ellis

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and vulnerable exploration of growing up with a Fresh Prince-meets-Dwyane Wade imaginar…

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1. Summer on Highland Beach (Summer Beach, #3)

By: Sunny Hostin

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The View  cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach… read more

Similar categories in Sunny Hostin's Summer on Highland Beach (Summer Beach, #3) book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • audiobook
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2. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

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3. 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

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The truth is never skin deep.   It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City… read more

Similar categories in Kellye Garrett's Missing White Woman book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • audiobook
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5. I Curse You With Joy

By: Tiffany Haddish

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, I Curse You With Joy … read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Haddish's I Curse You With Joy book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Representation isn’t just checking off boxes, it’s validating experience."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"What I was learning was, in its own fucked up way, no feelings was as bad as too many."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"I wish that men got endometriosis. If it was painful when they ejaculated, you know they would find a cure immediately and every doctor would know what to do to make it less painful, even a foot doct…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"Going through all that, taught me that you get to choose your response when you are afraid. You might not be able to control everything that happens to you but you do get to control how you respond t…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

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6. I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (A Feeding the Soul Book)

By: Tabitha Brown

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business) presents an… read more

Similar categories in Tabitha Brown's I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free (A Feeding the Soul Book) book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)

By: Danielle Allen

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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9. A Little Kissing Between Friends

By: Chencia C. Higgins

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the stud… read more

Similar categories in Chencia C. Higgins's A Little Kissing Between Friends book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • audiobook
"No less than forty-five minutes after giving birth, a memo is sent out informing the life-bringer that their time as a bad bitch has expired and they are henceforth Somebody’s Mama and must act accor…"

-Chencia C. Higgins, A Little Kissing Between Friends

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10. 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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11. The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster

By: Shauna Robinson

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks and Must Love Books comes a heartf… read more

Similar categories in Shauna Robinson's The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • audiobook
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12. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • humor
  • audiobook
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13. Between Friends & Lovers

By: Shirlene Obuobi

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Talia Hibbert meets Carley Fortune in this swoon-worthy story of love and friendship in the age of … read more

Similar categories in Shirlene Obuobi's Between Friends & Lovers book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • audiobook
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14. Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

By: Jay Ellis

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and vulnerable exploration of growing up with a Fresh Prince-meets-Dwyane Wade imaginar… read more

Similar categories in Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya   Smith

15. Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million

By: Tanya Smith

3.94

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of how a middle-class Black girl from Minneapolis became one of the single biggest t… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Smith's Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more

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17. 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

Similar categories in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Lovely One: A Memoir book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. Who's That Girl?: A Memoir

By: Eve.

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated ra… read more

Similar categories in Eve.'s Who's That Girl?: A Memoir book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"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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20. First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream

By: Jessica Hoppe

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creat… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Hoppe's First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. Sonny Boy: A Memoir

By: Al Pacino

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a… read more

Similar categories in Al Pacino's Sonny Boy: A Memoir book and Jay Ellis's Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Where do I go to get a director? I’ve never hired one in my life. I’ve only starred in three films. I said, “Marty, I don’t know how to interview anybody. This is completely crazy."

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"A strange and discordant mix of roles followed. I liked one film I did, The Humbling, because I did it with Barry Levinson. It was based on the novel by Philip Roth, who I met at a party in New York.…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"As I was heading back, I began to hear the sound of someone crying, which you sort of expect in a graveyard. I looked around to see where it was coming from. And there, sitting on a tombstone, was Fr…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

"Another young actor in Charlie’s class with me was a guy by the name of Martin Sheen. In one session Marty did a monologue from The Iceman Cometh, and he blew the roof off—I said, this is it, this is…"

-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

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