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Matched genres: Memoir, Essays

Title Year Ratings Rating
The David Sedaris Box Set
Humor , Nonfiction , Audiobook , Memoir , Comedy , Short Stories , Essays
David Sedaris
2001 1.9K 4.59
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Nonfiction , Essays , Music , History , Race , Audiobook , Memoir
Hanif Abdurraqib
2021 9.4K 4.59
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Nonfiction , Essays , Music , Poetry , Memoir , Race , Audiobook
Hanif Abdurraqib
2017 17.1K 4.56
The Fire Next Time
Nonfiction , Classics , Essays , Race , History , Politics , Memoir
James Baldwin
1992 110.9K 4.55
The Message
Nonfiction , Essays , Politics , History , Audiobook , Memoir , Race
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2024 25.9K 4.54
Ordinary Notes
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Poetry , Race , History , Politics
Christina Sharpe
2023 1.4K 4.54
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Nonfiction , Science , Audiobook , Indigenous , Memoir , Environment , Essays
Robin Wall Kimmerer
2013 149.0K 4.52
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Journalism , Politics , Memoir , History
Zahra Fatima Hankir
2019 4.2K 4.49
No Name in the Street
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , History , Race , Classics , African American
James Baldwin
2007 4.2K 4.49
My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Memoir , Nonfiction , Music , Essays , Audiobook , Biography , Biography Memoir
Dessa
2018 2.4K 4.48
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Nonfiction , Memoir , Queer , Art , LGBT , Essays , Biography
David Wojnarowicz
1991 4.2K 4.48
The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
Nonfiction , Politics , Essays , Biography , History , Philosophy , Memoir
Charles Krauthammer
2018 2.1K 4.46
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
Music , Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Poetry , Biography , History
Hanif Abdurraqib
2019 6.2K 4.46
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Nonfiction , Disability , Essays , Memoir , Social Justice , Audiobook , Anthologies
Alice Wong
2020 16.0K 4.46
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Memoir , Nonfiction , Short Stories , Essays , Queer , Biography , LGBT
Cookie Mueller
1990 4.5K 4.44
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Short Stories , Journalism , Classics , Biography
Joan Didion
2006 2.1K 4.44
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
Nonfiction , Feminism , Memoir , Audiobook , Race , Essays , Queer
Sesali Bowen
2021 2.3K 4.44
The Cancer Journals
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Essays , Queer , Disability , LGBT
Audre Lorde
2006 4.9K 4.43
Thick: And Other Essays
Nonfiction , Essays , Feminism , Race , Memoir , Social Justice , Sociology
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2019 17.9K 4.43
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
Nonfiction , Poetry , Queer , Essays , LGBT , Transgender , Memoir
Kai Cheng Thom
2019 2.6K 4.43
These Precious Days: Essays
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Audiobook , Short Stories , Biography , Biography Memoir
Ann Patchett
2021 42.8K 4.43
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Audiobook , Memoir , Social Justice , Anthologies
Roxane Gay
2018 21.4K 4.43
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Nonfiction , Memoir , Indigenous , Essays , Audiobook , Canada , Mental Health
Alicia Elliott
2019 10.0K 4.41
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Nonfiction , Audiobook , Feminism , Social Justice , Health , Memoir , Essays
Aubrey Gordon
2020 16.5K 4.40
The World Record Book of Racist Stories
Nonfiction , Humor , Audiobook , Memoir , Race , Essays , Social Justice
Amber Ruffin
2022 5.6K 4.39
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Memoir , Politics , Womens , Social Justice
Sohaila Abdulali
2018 2.4K 4.39
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Essays , Nonfiction , Memoir , Writing , Queer , LGBT , Biography
Alexander Chee
2018 12.0K 4.39
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Nonfiction , Essays , Politics , Social Justice , Memoir , Race , Audiobook
Valeria Luiselli
2017 15.9K 4.39
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Nonfiction , Feminism , Race , Essays , Memoir , Anti Racist , Social Justice
Brittney Cooper
2018 13.6K 4.38
The Undocumented Americans
Nonfiction , Memoir , Politics , Audiobook , Social Justice , Race , Essays
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2020 24.1K 4.38
Growing Up Disabled in Australia
Nonfiction , Disability , Memoir , Essays , Australia , Audiobook , Anthologies
Carly Findlay
2021 1.0K 4.38
Nobody Knows My Name
Nonfiction , Essays , Race , Classics , History , African American , Memoir
James Baldwin
1992 4.5K 4.37
Notes of a Native Son
Nonfiction , Essays , Classics , Race , Memoir , History , Politics
James Baldwin
1984 22.6K 4.37
Nox
Poetry , Memoir , Nonfiction , Art , Essays , Classics , Canada
Anne Carson
2010 3.8K 4.37
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Writing , Biography , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Pat Conroy
2016 2.1K 4.36
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Nonfiction , Essays , Audiobook , Memoir , History , Science , Short Stories
John Green
2021 151.3K 4.36
One Story, One Song
Nonfiction , Indigenous , Memoir , Canada , Essays , Audiobook , Native American
Richard Wagamese
2011 1.2K 4.34
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
Nonfiction , Essays , Writing , Philosophy , Feminism , Books About Books , Memoir
Ursula K. Le Guin
2004 2.7K 4.34
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
Nonfiction , Indigenous , Essays , Canada , History , Memoir , Native American
Thomas King
2005 4.2K 4.34
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Nonfiction , Sports , Memoir , Essays , Audiobook , Poetry , Basketball
Hanif Abdurraqib
2024 9.1K 4.33
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Audiobook , Short Stories , Biography , Race
America Ferrera
2018 6.2K 4.33
The Good Immigrant
Nonfiction , Essays , Race , Politics , Short Stories , Memoir , Anti Racist
Nikesh Shukla
2016 13.5K 4.32
The Art of Eating
Food , Nonfiction , Cooking , Essays , Cookbooks , Food Writing , Memoir
M.F.K. Fisher
2004 6.1K 4.32
SantaLand Diaries
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Short Stories , Christmas , Comedy
David Sedaris
2006 46.6K 4.32
Carefree Black Girls
Nonfiction , Essays , Feminism , Race , Memoir , Audiobook , Social Justice
Zeba Blay
2021 1.0K 4.31
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Mental Health , Psychology , Audiobook , Feminism
Bassey Ikpi
2019 4.0K 4.31
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Nonfiction , Essays , Feminism , Race , Memoir , Philosophy , African American
Toni Morrison
2019 4.0K 4.31
Jane: A Murder
Poetry , Nonfiction , Memoir , True Crime , Crime , Mystery , Essays
Maggie Nelson
2005 5.8K 4.31
Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
Nonfiction , Politics , Humor , Essays , Journalism , Memoir , History
Molly Ivins
1991 1.3K 4.31
Gender Failure
Nonfiction , Queer , LGBT , Memoir , Gender , Transgender , Essays
Ivan E. Coyote
2014 2.4K 4.31