February 📚 Own Voices

📚 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2023 📚 - hosted by lavender_lake

Read a work of non-fiction by an Author of Color.

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You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska

You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine
Yeva Skalietska

128 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir young adult emotional informative medium-paced

You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine

Yeva Skalietska

128 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir young adult emotional informative medium-paced

Abolitionist Intimacies
El Jones

218 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays poetry politics race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Abolitionist Intimacies

El Jones

218 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays poetry politics race emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Educated
Tara Westover

400 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Educated

Tara Westover

400 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory by Leah Jing McIntosh, Adolfo Aranjuez

Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory
Leah Jing McIntosh, Adolfo Aranjuez with Elizabeth Flux (Contributor), Barry Corr (Contributor), Brandon K. Liew (Contributor), Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun (Contributor), grace ugamay dulawan (Contributor), Hannah Wu (Contributor), Hasib Hourani (Contributor), Hassan Abul (Contributor), Jon Tjhia (Contributor), Kasumi Borczyk (Contributor), Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn (Contributor), Lou Garcia-Dolnik (Contributor), Lur Alghurabi (Contributor), Mykaela Saunders (Contributor), Ouyang Yu (Contributor), Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh (Contributor), Ryan Gustafsson (Contributor), Suneeta Peres da Costa (Contributor), Veronica Gorrie (Contributor), André Dao (Contributor)

296 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory

Leah Jing McIntosh, Adolfo Aranjuez with Elizabeth Flux (Contributor), Barry Corr (Contributor), Brandon K. Liew (Contributor), Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun (Contributor), grace ugamay dulawan (Contributor), Hannah Wu (Contributor), Hasib Hourani (Contributor), Hassan Abul (Contributor), Jon Tjhia (Contributor), Kasumi Borczyk (Contributor), Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn (Contributor), Lou Garcia-Dolnik (Contributor), Lur Alghurabi (Contributor), Mykaela Saunders (Contributor), Ouyang Yu (Contributor), Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh (Contributor), Ryan Gustafsson (Contributor), Suneeta Peres da Costa (Contributor), Veronica Gorrie (Contributor), André Dao (Contributor)

296 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

114 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging reflective slow-paced

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

114 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging reflective slow-paced

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced

Becoming
Michelle Obama

426 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Becoming

Michelle Obama

426 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon

241 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Heavy: An American Memoir

Kiese Laymon

241 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson

476 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

476 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang

Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships
Camilla Pang

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced

Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

Camilla Pang

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced

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