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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

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

Michael W. Twitty

480 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history informative reflective slow-paced
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange

560 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction memoir adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

James McBride

8 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B. Gad

The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl

Marra B. Gad

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian

Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

Roya Hakakian

256 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective fast-paced
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton by Andrew Porwancher

The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton

Andrew Porwancher

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg

Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

Nina Totenberg

9 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring medium-paced
Koshersoul by Michael W. Twitty

Koshersoul

Michael W. Twitty

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction cookbook history memoir race religion informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews by Cynthia Kaplan Shamash

The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews

Cynthia Kaplan Shamash

240 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction emotional reflective slow-paced