8 best-selling biography memoir books like Token Black Girl by Danielle Prescod

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Token Black Girl

By: Danielle Prescod

3.92

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingl…

"It’s the media’s job to accurately reflect the world we live in, not distort it."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"How much pain you can withstand should not be the barometer of how successful you can become."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"Women are taught that our bodies must be fixed and that, if given the power to do so, we should use it."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"I was convinced I had to work for and earn affection… I would have to put in the time and effort to be loved."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Token Black Girl by Danielle Prescod , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Weary Blues

By: Langston Hughes

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more

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  • race
  • african american

2. Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Junior High

By: None

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Lively, poignant, and utterly winning, The Diary of Latoya Hunter is a timely portrait of adolescen… read more

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3. My Own Words

By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Mary Hartnett , Wendy W. Williams

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, en… read more

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4. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

By: Liza Mundy

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girlsis the astonishing, untol… read more

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5. Big Chicas Don't Cry

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.22

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year i… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. Housemoms

By: Jen Lancaster

3.52

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem by Laurie Notaro

7. Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

By: Laurie Notaro

3.97

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. L… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Cut and Thirst

By: Margaret Atwood

3.15

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, a… read more

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  • feminism
  • audiobook
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9. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

By: Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

10. Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

By: Larry Loftis

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy The year is 1942, and Wo… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans."

-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

"When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause."

-Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

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11. Token Black Girl

By: Danielle Prescod

3.92

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingl… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Prescod's Token Black Girl book and Danielle Prescod's Token Black Girl

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • african american
  • audiobook
"It’s the media’s job to accurately reflect the world we live in, not distort it."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"How much pain you can withstand should not be the barometer of how successful you can become."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"Women are taught that our bodies must be fixed and that, if given the power to do so, we should use it."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"I was convinced I had to work for and earn affection… I would have to put in the time and effort to be loved."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

Cover of Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1) by Kennedy Ryan

12. Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

By: Kennedy Ryan

4.36

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasme… read more

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  • audiobook
"Fuck them ribs."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

"We said till death do us part."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

"No one in my whole life has ever hurt me like you did."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

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13. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

By: Anna Malaika Tubbs

4.09

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates … read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
"Bertis, Louise, and Alberta, grew from children, to teenagers, to young women at a time when the birth of a nation characterized black men as scoundrels intent on brutalizing white women. When the pi…"

-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

"Their military experience made them more of a threat. Their pride was seen as something in need of control. Once again irrational white supremacist fears turned into extreme forms of brutality. Accor…"

-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Cover of Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time by Angela      Brown

14. Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

By: Angela Brown

3.66

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman has no choice left but to enjoy the adventure of life—and its surprises—in a funny and emot… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev

15. The Vibrant Years

By: Sonali Dev

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desa… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection) by Sadeqa Johnson

16. Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection)

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.22

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

A single mother in segregated Virginia pushes back on societal prejudice and her own family’s judgm… read more

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  • feminism
  • african american
  • audiobook
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17. Local

By: Jessica Machado

3.66

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is an… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection) by Melanie Benjamin

18. Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection)

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.61

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

An enterprising woman in a man’s world. A vision that changed daytime television. A galvanizing sho… read more

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  • feminism
  • audiobook
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19. The Real Deal

By: Caitlin Devlin

3.43

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it harder to keep a secret when the world is watching – or to tell the truth when no-one is list… read more

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20. Where Wild Peaches Grow

By: Cade Bentley

3.95

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

In a deeply emotional novel of family, cultural heritage, and forgiveness, estranged sisters wrestl… read more

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  • african american
  • audiobook
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21. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

By: Namrata Patel

4.02

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more

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Cover of Zootopia: Judy Hopps and the Missing Jumbo-Pop (Disney Picture Book (ebook)) by Walt Disney Company

22. Zootopia: Judy Hopps and the Missing Jumbo-Pop (Disney Picture Book (ebook))

By: Walt Disney Company

4.20

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Officer Judy Hopps is on an exciting case in Zootopia. Her day started out like any other, until sh… read more

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23. Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3)

By: Jayne Allen

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is jugg… read more

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  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of They Come at Knight (Nena Knight #2) by Yasmin Angoe

24. They Come at Knight (Nena Knight #2)

By: Yasmin Angoe

4.33

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Yasmin Angoe’s They Come at Knight is the heart-pounding second installment in the Nena Knight seri… read more

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  • audiobook
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25. The Union

By: Leah Vernon

3.65

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Under the rule of a tyrant, Americans were divided by race and class. Hate and inequality reigned. … read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
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26. Fires to Come (Blaze Collection)

By: Asha Lemmie

3.81

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

In early twentieth-century New York City, a young woman torn between two cultures must choose where… read more

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  • feminism
  • audiobook
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27. The Community

By: N. Jamiyla Chisholm

3.63

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heartbreak Years: A Memoir by Minda Honey

28. The Heartbreak Years: A Memoir

By: Minda Honey

3.65

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilariously intimate memoir that gets to the turbulent joys and pains of coming of age and lookin… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of We Are All Connected: Caring for Each Other & the Eearth by Gabi Garcia

29. We Are All Connected: Caring for Each Other & the Eearth

By: Gabi Garcia

4.57

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

Teach your child the power of empathy, kindness, and respect. We Are All Connected is a lyrical pic… read more

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30. Trayvon: Ten Years Later

By: Sybrina Fulton

4.48

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

In this powerful essay, the mother of Trayvon Martin shares her grief, reflections, anger, and hope… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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31. Oh Danny Boy

By: Josie Riviera

4.07

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

This pot of gold could hold more than they bargained for… Grand. Just grand. Clara Donovan’s fai… read more

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"Seamus, don’t jump!"

-Josie Riviera, Oh Danny Boy

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