18 must-read biography books like Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography by Staci Robinson

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Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

By: Staci Robinson

4.44

Format: 691 pages, Hardcover

The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving expl…

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1. The Rose That Grew from Concrete

By: Tupac Shakur

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

This collection of more than 100 poems that honestly and artfully confront topics ranging from pove… read more

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  • music
  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • audiobook
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3. Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds

By: Rich Paul

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make—from the founder and CE… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Worthy

By: Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

By: Staci Robinson

4.44

Format: 691 pages, Hardcover

The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving expl… read more

Similar categories in Staci Robinson's Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography book and Staci Robinson's Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

  • music
  • art
  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • hip hop
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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7. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

By: Sly Stone

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Madonna: A Rebel Life

By: Mary Gabriel

4.03

Format: 1782 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Editors’ Choice, One of NPR’s Best Books of the YearIn this “infinitely readable” bi… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

By: Edel Rodriguez

4.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “America’s illustrator in chief” ( Fast Company ), a graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, co… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

By: Tariq Trotter

4.20

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

“Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has ref… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • hip hop
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me by Rex Chapman

12. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life's Too Short: A Memoir by Darius Rucker

13. Life's Too Short: A Memoir

By: Darius Rucker

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award–winning, Diamond-selling le… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Macho Man: The Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage by Jon Finkel

14. Macho Man: The Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage

By: Jon Finkel

4.14

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Oooohhh yeahhhh! Macho The Life of Randy Savage is the sensational, definitive biography of the Wr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. Magic: The Life of Earvin “Magic” Johnson

By: Roland Lazenby

4.16

Format: 818 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, from the highly respected… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove

16. Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him by Justin Tinsley

17. It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

By: Justin Tinsley

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Culture journalist Justin Tinsley’s It Was All a Dream is “a deeply reported saga of the ephemeral,… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • hip hop
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley

18. An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

By: Santi Elijah Holley

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as se… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Rise of a Killah

By: Ghostface Killah

3.23

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding members… read more

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  • music
  • memoir
  • hip hop
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks by Charlamagne Tha God

20. Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks

By: Charlamagne Tha God

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah by Kathy Iandoli

21. Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

By: Kathy Iandoli

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a definitive and “ excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon” (Questlove), the li… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I wanna be seen as an entertainer. When I'm dead and gone, I want my name to be uttered among the legends. I want to be remembered as the girl who did it all."

-Kathy Iandoli, Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

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Rich Paul

4.11

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Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

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4.44

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

Sly Stone

3.56

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There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

Steven Hyden

4.21

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