6 Best autobiography books like A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back) by Dillibe Onyeama

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A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

By: Dillibe Onyeama

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

'The story [Onyeama] had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn't let me go . . . A remark…

If you liked the autobiography plot in A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back) by Dillibe Onyeama , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. The Cement Garden

By: Ian McEwan

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

In this tour de force of psychological unease - now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gains… read more

Similar categories in Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • british literature

2. Moth Smoke

By: Mohsin Hamid

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

When Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the len… read more

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3. Swimming Home

By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more

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4. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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5. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Fix the System, Not the Women book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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6. 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

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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7. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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8. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

Similar categories in Christian Lewis's Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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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

Similar categories in Lemn Sissay's My Name Is Why book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • race
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

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  • audiobook
  • british literature
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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

Similar categories in Angela Hui's Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • audiobook
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13. The Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more

Similar categories in A.K. Blakemore's The Glutton book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • audiobook
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14. Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

By: Jason Fox

4.14

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This is a true story. The events depicted took place during the last decade in an unnamed warzone. … read more

Similar categories in Jason Fox's Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"All across the mission, dozens of horror stories were being written. I just had to deal with mine."

-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

"The fact that I was considered part of that elite group, and the idea that other people could rely on me, too, felt life-affirming... I told myself, Mate, you’re good at a job where you have to work …"

-Jason Fox, Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

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15. Fake Accounts

By: Lauren Oyler

2.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman in a post-election tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy … read more

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  • audiobook
"I resented my mother and online feminism for making me paranoid."

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"People often say my generation values authenticity. Reluctantly I will admit to being a member of my generation. If we value authenticity it’s because we’ve been bombarded since our impressionable pr…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"For a few months, the political catastrophe seemed so dire that one's music and movie preferences were no longer considered the ultimate markers of one's moral fitness to fight fascism. Which became,…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"Consensus was the world was ending, or would begin to end soon, if not by exponential environmental catastrophe then by some combination of nuclear war, the American two-party system, patriarchy, whi…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

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16. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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17. The Botanist's Daughter

By: Kayte Nunn

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondr… read more

Similar categories in Kayte Nunn's The Botanist's Daughter book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • audiobook
  • british literature
"You just have to keep walking through the fire. And then you'll bloom."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"The truth had been hiding in plain sight: a margeurite was a type of daisy."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers. - Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda "

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"Elizabeth had lent her an aquamarine dress, originally made for Georgiana, with elbow-length sleeves and intricate embroidery of butterflies and bees. It set Daisy's red hair ablaze. 'Fire on water,'…"

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

Cover of Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy by Symeon Brown

18. Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

By: Symeon Brown

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Politicians and popular culture have attached heroism to entrepreneurship."

-Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

"The internet was supposed to democratise the spread of information and make companies more open by elevating the independent voice of consumers, but the world of surgery is just one example of how ea…"

-Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

"In a world where we are encouraged to fake it, the first person you have to convince is yourself. Self-deception is the first step in an economy that thrives off the need to present such demeaning wo…"

-Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

"In recent decades, aspiration has been heavily wrapped up not in what we aim to do, achieve or create but in what we can afford to buy. Young adults and teenagers have been under more and more pressu…"

-Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

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19. Monumenta

By: Lara Haworth

3.83

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.The council will bulldoze it.Her home will become a monum… read more

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20. A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

By: Dillibe Onyeama

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

'The story [Onyeama] had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn't let me go . . . A remark… read more

Similar categories in Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back) book and Dillibe Onyeama's A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back)

  • race
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook

14 Best audiobook books like A Black Boy at Eton (Black Britain Writing Back) by Dillibe Onyeama

Transform Your Habits

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Transform Your Habits

My Name Is Why

Lemn Sissay

4.29

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16 Best audiobook books like Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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