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Memoirs published during the 2020s Decade (2020 - 2029) by African-American Authors. Adult Only. US publications only. English Only.
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Do not add books with biracial/mixed/"black biracial" or black "identifying" authors.
Books that violate the rules will be removed without comment.
No ebooks or self-published. No celebrities or people that work in the entertainment industry in any form. No graphic novels. No books on sexuality/feminism/intersectionality.
Do not add books with biracial/mixed/"black biracial" or black "identifying" authors.
Books that violate the rules will be removed without comment.
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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Somebody's Daughter
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Ashley C. Ford (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 72,154 ratings
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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We're Better Than This
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Beaten Black And Blue: Being A Black Cop In An America Under Siege
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Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
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Down in the Bunker: A Journey of Faith, Fear, and Finding Hope
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This Is Not For You: An Activist's Journey of Resistance and Resilience
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Buses Are a Comin'
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
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Uché Blackstock (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 4,658 ratings
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
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Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court
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The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America
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Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
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The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir
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Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform
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We Are Bridges: A Memoir
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Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
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Damon Tweedy (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
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Morgan Jerkins (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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My Vanishing Country
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The Beauty in Breaking
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Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever
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Kareem Rosser (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
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Kendra James (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 2,960 ratings
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The Last Children of Mill Creek
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Vivian Gibson (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 489 ratings
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Leaving Breezy Street
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Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
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I'm Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream
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Jump: My Secret Journey From the Streets to the Boardroom
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Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
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A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
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Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
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Margo Jefferson (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
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My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
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Mama Bear: One Black Mother's Fight for Her Child's Life and Her Own
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4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
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You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success
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The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
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3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness
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Surviving Washington
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