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Celebrate Black Authors: Essays and Memoirs

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  1. Becoming

    Becoming

    by Michelle Obama
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  2. Between the World and Me

    Between the World and Me

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  3. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    by Trevor Noah
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  4. The Book of Delights: Essays

    The Book of Delights: Essays

    by Ross Gay
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  5. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays

    We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays

    by Samantha Irby
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  6. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

    Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

    by Roxane Gay
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  7. Heavy: An American Memoir

    Heavy: An American Memoir

    by Kiese Laymon
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  8. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

    Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

    by Mitchell Jackson
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  9. Thick: And Other Essays

    Thick: And Other Essays

    by Tressie McMillan Cottom
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  10. Meaty: Essays

    Meaty: Essays

    by Samantha Irby
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  11. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

    The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

    by Toni Morrison
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  12. The Yellow House

    The Yellow House

    by Sarah M. Broom
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  13. You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

    You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

    by Phoebe Robinson
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  14. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person

    Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person

    by Shonda Rhimes
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  15. The Light of the World: A Memoir

    The Light of the World: A Memoir

    by Elizabeth Alexander
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  16. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

    The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

    by Issa Rae
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  17. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

    I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

    by Austin Channing Brown
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  18. Men We Reaped: A Memoir

    Men We Reaped: A Memoir

    by Jesmyn Ward
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  19. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

    The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

    by Michael W. Twitty
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  20. All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

    All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

    by George M. Johnson
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  21. Notes from a Young Black Chef

    Notes from a Young Black Chef

    by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein
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  22. The Beauty in Breaking

    The Beauty in Breaking

    by Michele Harper
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  23. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

    Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

    by Brittney Cooper
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  24. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

    When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

    by Patrisse Khan Cullors and asha bandele
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  25. How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

    How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

    by Saeed Jones
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  26. The Last Black Unicorn

    The Last Black Unicorn

    by Tiffany Haddish
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  27. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

    Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

    by Natasha Trethewey
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  28. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

    What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

    by Damon Young
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  29. Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

    Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

    by Phoebe Robinson
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  30. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

    Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

    by Glory Edim
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  31. I Don't Want to Die Poor

    I Don't Want to Die Poor

    by Michael Arceneaux
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  32. The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

    The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

    by André Leon Talley
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  33. Solitary

    Solitary

    by Albert Woodfox
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  34. I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé

    I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé

    by Michael Arceneaux
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  35. This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

    This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

    by Morgan Jerkins
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  36. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

    I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

    by Bassey Ikpi
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  37. More Myself: A Journey

    More Myself: A Journey

    by Alicia Keys and Michelle Burford
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  38. Let Love Have the Last Word

    Let Love Have the Last Word

    by Common
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  39. Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

    Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

    by Janet Mock
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  40. Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

    Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

    by Mychal Denzel Smith
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    $26.00
  41. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

    The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

    by Wayétu Moore
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    $26.00
    $17.95
  42. Negroland: A Memoir

    Negroland: A Memoir

    by Margo Jefferson
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    $16.95
    $10.95
  43. Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem

    Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem

    by Daniel R Day
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  44. More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

    More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

    by Elaine Welteroth
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    $17.00
    $11.95
  45. Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

    Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

    by R. Eric Thomas
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    $26.00
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  46. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

    Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

    by Imani Perry
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    $9.95
  47. Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

    Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

    by Amanda Seales
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    $26.00
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  48. My Soul Looks Back

    My Soul Looks Back

    by Jessica B. Harris
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    $17.00
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  49. Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice

    Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice

    by Willie Parker
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  50. Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey From World War II to Peace

    Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey From World War II to Peace

    by Ashley Bryan
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    $21.99
  51. Well That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist

    Well That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist

    by Franchesca Ramsey
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    $27.00
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  52. Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence

    Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence

    by Joel Christian Gill
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  53. No Ashes in the Fire Coming of Age Black & Free in America

    No Ashes in the Fire Coming of Age Black & Free in America

    by Darnell L Moore
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  54. Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

    Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

    by Mychal Denzel Smith
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  55. What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues

    What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues

    by Clifford Thompson
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  56. Ive Been Meaning to Tell You A Letter to My Daughter

    Ive Been Meaning to Tell You A Letter to My Daughter

    by David Chariandy
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  57. Big Black: Stand at Attica

    Big Black: Stand at Attica

    by Frank Big Black Smith and Jared Reinmuth and Améziane
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  58. Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now

    Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now

    by Andre Perry
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  59. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

    The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

    by Keah Brown
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    $17.00
  60. F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me

    F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me

    by Chloé Hilliard
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    $27.00
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  61. Reach for the Skai: How to Inspire, Empower, and Clapback

    Reach for the Skai: How to Inspire, Empower, and Clapback

    by Skai Jackson
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  62. How to Be Black

    How to Be Black

    by Baratunde Thurston
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    $14.99
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  63. Were Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True

    Were Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True

    by Gabrielle Union
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  64. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

    Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

    by Morgan Jerkins
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  65. Think Black: A Memoir

    Think Black: A Memoir

    by Clyde W. Ford
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    $25.99
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  66. This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

    This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

    by Shayla Lawson
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  67. My Vanishing Country: A Memoir

    My Vanishing Country: A Memoir

    by Bakari Sellers
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  68. Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

    Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

    by Curtis 50 Cent Jackson
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  69. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

    This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

    by Ilhan Omar
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  70. The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

    The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

    by Bridgett M. Davis
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  71. Busted in New York and Other Essays

    Busted in New York and Other Essays

    by Darryl Pinckney and Zadie Smith
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  72. Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

    Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

    by Leah Vernon
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  73. Obviously: Stories from My Timeline

    Obviously: Stories from My Timeline

    by Akilah Hughes
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  74. Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963

    Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963

    by Sharon Robinson
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  75. Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart

    Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart

    by Jarvis Masters and Pema Chödrön
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  76. Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

    Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

    by E. Dolores Johnson
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  77. Names of All the Flowers A Memoir

    Names of All the Flowers A Memoir

    by Melissa Valentine
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  78. Stupid Black Girl: Essays from an American African

    Stupid Black Girl: Essays from an American African

    by Aisha Redux
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  79. Love's Long Line

    Love's Long Line

    by Sophfronia Scott
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