14 must-read biography memoir books like Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe

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Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

By: Ben Philippe

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In an era in which “I have many black friends” is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chroni…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Canada

By: Mike Myers

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 52-year relationship wit… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...the strength of a democracy is not how well we agree but how well we disagree."

-Mike Myers, Canada

2. A Beautiful Ghetto

By: D. Watkins , Devin Allen

3.64

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

On April 18th, 2015, Baltimore erupted into mass protests in response to the brutal and heinous mur… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years

By: David Litt

3.91

Format: 337 pages, ebook

Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does… read more

Similar categories in David Litt's Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep

By: Samantha Irby

4.01

Format: None pages,

Comedian, blogger and essayist Samantha Irby is notgoing to be a better person this year than she w… read more

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5. It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree

By: None

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs … read more

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6. Undead with Benefits

By: Jeff Hart

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

The living dead are living it up in this hilarious and surprisingly romantic sequel to Eat, Brains,… read more

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7. Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship

By: Marsha M. Linehan , Shari Y. Manning

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be intensely caring, warm, smart, and funny--… read more

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8. Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

By: Charlamagne Tha God

3.92

Format: 314 pages,

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9. Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

By: Ben Philippe

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In an era in which “I have many black friends” is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chroni… read more

Similar categories in Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. She Memes Well

By: Quinta Brunson

4.07

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy Award-winning writer Quinta Brunson (creator and star of Abbott Elementary ) comes a deep… read more

Similar categories in Quinta Brunson's She Memes Well book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his… read more

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12. The World Record Book of Racist Stories

By: Amber Ruffin

4.40

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more

Similar categories in Amber Ruffin's The World Record Book of Racist Stories book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Long Past Summer

By: Noué Kirwan

3.55

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

It's hard to move on from a broken heart--and harder to move on from a broken friendship.Mikaela Ma… read more

Similar categories in Noué Kirwan's Long Past Summer book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History

By: Richard Thompson Ford

3.85

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that a… read more

Similar categories in Richard Thompson Ford's Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

By: Ava Chin

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more

Similar categories in Ava Chin's Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"

-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

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17. The Game of Desire: 5 Surprising Secrets to Dating with Dominance - and Getting What You Want

By: Shannon Boodram

3.99

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

gain control and confidence in your love lives and find the relationship you want with this modern… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Boodram's The Game of Desire: 5 Surprising Secrets to Dating with Dominance - and Getting What You Want book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

By: Blythe Grossberg

3.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth b… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Grossberg's I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

By: R. Derek Black

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more

Similar categories in R. Derek Black's The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America

By: Jonathan Vigliotti

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us , a character-driven and shocking up-close loo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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21. The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames

By: Justine Cowan

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Far from growing up in the wealthy, fox-hunting circles she had always suggested, her mother had i… read more

Similar categories in Justine Cowan's The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

By: Damon Young

4.14

Format: 9 pages, Audiobook

From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at… read more

Similar categories in Damon Young's What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I thought [...] of all the negotiating and navigating it requires to exist while black and relatively sane. And how, for the rest of them, for my [white] teammates and the [white] guys we just played…"

-Damon Young, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

"White privilege--the idea that whiteness, for white Americans, provides an imperishable benefit of the doubt and a flexible and perpetually renewable get-out-of-jail-free card-- is often dismissed by…"

-Damon Young, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

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23. One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing

By: Rowan Jette Knox

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long tra… read more

Similar categories in Rowan Jette Knox's One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

By: Marcie Alvis Walker

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the si… read more

Similar categories in Marcie Alvis Walker's Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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25. Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

By: Kenya Hunt

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, bu… read more

Similar categories in Kenya Hunt's Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • race
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage (Secret Diary of a Bengali Woman, #1)

By: Halima Khatun

3.80

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

(Alternate cover edition of ASIN B084GSTFCW.) A British-Bengali girl looking for Mr Right. A mo… read more

Similar categories in Halima Khatun's The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage (Secret Diary of a Bengali Woman, #1) book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • humor
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27. Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian

By: Amy Attas

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hilarious, jaw-dropping, and heartfelt stories from New York City’s premier “house-call veterinaria… read more

Similar categories in Amy Attas's Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels by Gary Janetti

28. We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels

By: Gary Janetti

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace by Eris Young

29. Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

By: Eris Young

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

How do we experience attraction? What does love mean to us? When did you realise you were ace? … read more

Similar categories in Eris Young's Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"There is power in naming yourself, but there is also power in being unnameable."

-Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

"When it comes to romance, we're told, "You'll know it when you see it" Which is fine, unless, of course, you don't."

-Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

"For many people, being alone symbolises a failure to live up to the aspirational life that society tells them they should want."

-Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

"And just as asexuality is not a disease to be cured, sex-aversion isn't a pathology unless the person experiencing it decides that it is."

-Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

Cover of Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing) by Emily Weinstein

30. Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)

By: Emily Weinstein

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

How teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them. What are teens actually doin… read more

Similar categories in Emily Weinstein's Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing) book and Ben Philippe's Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work

By: Charlotte Shane

3.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.07

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The World Record Book of Racist Stories

Amber Ruffin

4.40

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4.01

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Harrison Scott Key

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A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

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Anne Lamott

3.95

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