Reading More Non-Fiction in 2021! - hosted by litficwithellie

Book by a Black author
Can be on any topic you like, but make sure you're reading diverse authors in 2021!
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1

Maya Angelou

10 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A Promised Land

The Presidential Memoirs #1

Barack Obama

29 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

Yrsa Daley-Ward

224 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir poetry dark emotional reflective medium-paced
E poi basta. Manifesto di una donna nera italiana by Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti

E poi basta. Manifesto di una donna nera italiana

Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

5 hours, 53 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

4 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race young adult challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby

Wow, No Thank You.

Samantha Irby

319 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir funny reflective medium-paced
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Haben Girma

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

Stacey Abrams

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir politics reflective fast-paced
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

306 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced