Memoirs by People of Color

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Spy... for Nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
Spy... for Nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings
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جاسوس من أجل لا أحد: ستة عشر عامًا في المخابرات
جاسوس من أجل لا أحد: ستة عشر عامًا في المخابرات 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,284 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,529 ratings
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America 3.84 avg rating — 27,111 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,911 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,869 ratings
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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War 4.16 avg rating — 4,306 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,697 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,410 ratings
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The Last Black Unicorn
The Last Black Unicorn 3.84 avg rating — 68,453 ratings
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Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World 3.97 avg rating — 9,744 ratings
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The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise 4.20 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,125 ratings
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Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum 4.47 avg rating — 2,287 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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Together We Rise
Together We Rise 4.29 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey from Child Soldier to Soul Singer
Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey from Child Soldier to Soul Singer 3.72 avg rating — 333 ratings
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The Fox Hunt: A Memoir of Yemen and My Odyssey to America
The Fox Hunt: A Memoir of Yemen and My Odyssey to America 4.17 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,082 ratings
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Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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جاسوس من أجل لا أحد: ستة عشر عامًا في المخابرات
جاسوس من أجل لا أحد: ستة عشر عامًا في المخابرات 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Cholos and Surfers: A Latino Family Album
Cholos and Surfers: A Latino Family Album really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life 3.95 avg rating — 3,718 ratings
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We're Going to Need More Wine
We're Going to Need More Wine 4.19 avg rating — 36,932 ratings
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Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran 4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings
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A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide 4.30 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,158 ratings
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Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran
Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran 4.21 avg rating — 14,316 ratings
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Am I Black Enough For You?
Am I Black Enough For You? 3.87 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
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Iran: My Grandfather
Iran: My Grandfather 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve 4.15 avg rating — 2,430 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,274 ratings
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The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran
The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran 3.80 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening 4.33 avg rating — 8,127 ratings
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Lakota Woman
Lakota Woman 3.97 avg rating — 8,729 ratings
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Stay Alive, My Son
Stay Alive, My Son 4.37 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child 4.24 avg rating — 7,294 ratings
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Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment
Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
by: Zoya Phan
4.03 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Travels to the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes
Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Travels to the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes 3.68 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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Excavation
Excavation 3.74 avg rating — 3,271 ratings
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea 4.33 avg rating — 9,244 ratings
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Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring 4.19 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year 3.91 avg rating — 1,742 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 4.01 avg rating — 70,863 ratings
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Revolution for Dummies
Revolution for Dummies 4.19 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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Bound Feet & Western Dress
Bound Feet & Western Dress 3.92 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
by: Hyok Kang
3.84 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir 4.12 avg rating — 2,253 ratings
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Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea 4.31 avg rating — 6,886 ratings
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Writings on the Wall
Writings on the Wall 4.14 avg rating — 561 ratings
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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home 4.23 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,419 ratings
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story 4.23 avg rating — 12,765 ratings
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Wave
Wave 3.79 avg rating — 22,483 ratings
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On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta 3.37 avg rating — 1,475 ratings
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The Bite of the Mango
The Bite of the Mango 3.98 avg rating — 4,203 ratings
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We Are Here
We Are Here 3.93 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair 4.06 avg rating — 2,314 ratings
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones 4.01 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
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The Happiest Refugee
The Happiest Refugee
by: Anh Do
4.24 avg rating — 17,438 ratings
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Marching Powder
Marching Powder 4.31 avg rating — 29,042 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,467 ratings
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Small Bamboo: Growing Up and Growing Old With My Vietnamese Australian Family
Small Bamboo: Growing Up and Growing Old With My Vietnamese Australian Family
by: Tracy Vo
3.76 avg rating — 112 ratings
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You Get Past the Tears: A Memoir of Love and Survival
You Get Past the Tears: A Memoir of Love and Survival 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Vietnam My Great Escape
Vietnam My Great Escape
by: Tina Bui
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Shadow and Sunshine
Shadow and Sunshine 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam 3.99 avg rating — 6,619 ratings
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I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man
I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man 3.56 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Days of Grace: A Memoir
Days of Grace: A Memoir 4.07 avg rating — 1,248 ratings
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Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground
Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground 3.82 avg rating — 343 ratings
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My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive 4.04 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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The Color of Water
The Color of Water 4.15 avg rating — 131,549 ratings
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Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith 3.86 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
by: Amy Tan
3.58 avg rating — 3,377 ratings
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat 4.44 avg rating — 15,389 ratings
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Yes, Chef
Yes, Chef 3.86 avg rating — 18,534 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,304 ratings
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Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me 4.24 avg rating — 2,415 ratings
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This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare 4.04 avg rating — 8,064 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,945 ratings
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey 3.56 avg rating — 2,562 ratings
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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile 3.89 avg rating — 11,983 ratings
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A Small Place
A Small Place 4.05 avg rating — 17,324 ratings
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Running in the Family
Running in the Family 3.83 avg rating — 9,731 ratings