Nonfiction I've Read by Authors of Color
1. 
You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World
by:
Robert J. Brown
4.21 avg rating — 119 ratings 
1. 
Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime Politics for a Better America
by:
David Clarke Jr.
4.40 avg rating — 643 ratings 1. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
5. 
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
by:
Scott Jurek
4.22 avg rating — 15,955 ratings 5. 
Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division
by:
Crystal Wright
3.78 avg rating — 76 ratings 
8. 
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
by:
Alexis Okeowo
4.05 avg rating — 1,347 ratings 
8. 
Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey from Child Soldier to Soul Singer
by:
Senait G. Mehari
3.72 avg rating — 333 ratings 11. 
The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America 4.01 avg rating — 395 ratings
11. 
Music As Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith
by:
Deforia Lane
4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings 
13. 
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
by:
Dinesh D'Souza
4.22 avg rating — 2,068 ratings 15. 
Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
by:
Ann Mah
3.63 avg rating — 5,515 ratings 15. 
Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps
by:
Burgess Owens
4.19 avg rating — 226 ratings 
19. 
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
by:
Matthew Horace
4.17 avg rating — 922 ratings 
21. 
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
by:
Edward Lee
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,825 ratings 21. 
Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom
by:
Allen West
4.34 avg rating — 279 ratings 
23. 
The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists
by:
Ravi Zacharias
4.02 avg rating — 2,471 ratings 25. 
Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
by:
Kennedy Odede
4.47 avg rating — 2,289 ratings 25. 
Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger
by:
Star Parker
3.48 avg rating — 75 ratings 
27. 
From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today 3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings
29. 
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
by:
Shomari Wills
3.93 avg rating — 3,774 ratings 
31. 
Remembering Whitney: A Mother's Story of Life, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
by:
Cissy Houston
3.99 avg rating — 1,752 ratings 
37. 
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
by:
Muhammad Yunus
3.69 avg rating — 1,651 ratings 
39. 
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
by:
Van Jones
4.13 avg rating — 1,092 ratings 
41. 
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America
by:
Kathy Barnette
3.94 avg rating — 52 ratings 
44. 
Disrobed: How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
by:
Syl Tang
3.62 avg rating — 48 ratings 45. 
Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
by:
Lenora Chu
4.15 avg rating — 2,430 ratings 46. 
Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
by:
Shrabani Basu
3.41 avg rating — 2,389 ratings 
49. 
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
50. 
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring
by:
Bassem Youssef
4.19 avg rating — 3,014 ratings 51. 
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,883 ratings
53. 
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
by:
Jen Lin-Liu
3.37 avg rating — 1,475 ratings 54. 
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings 55. 
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair
by:
Nujeen Mustafa
4.06 avg rating — 2,314 ratings 
57. 
Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country
by:
Alex Cuadros
4.01 avg rating — 854 ratings 58. 
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
by:
Leymah Gbowee
4.16 avg rating — 4,306 ratings 59. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,908 ratings 60. 
I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man
by:
Maz Jobrani
3.56 avg rating — 668 ratings 61. 
Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground
by:
Ian Purkayastha
3.82 avg rating — 343 ratings 62. 
My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
by:
Julissa Arce
4.04 avg rating — 1,057 ratings 63. 
Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
by:
Cookie Johnson
3.86 avg rating — 447 ratings 64. 
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
by:
Carol Jenkins
4.33 avg rating — 252 ratings 
66. 
Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection
by:
Jia Jiang
4.03 avg rating — 7,235 ratings 67. 
No Excuses: Growing Up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams
by:
Derrick Coleman
3.94 avg rating — 243 ratings 68. 
The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion--and Others Should Too 3.98 avg rating — 93 ratings
69. 
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
by:
Damon Tweedy
4.18 avg rating — 5,391 ratings 70. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,742 ratings 71. 
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
by:
Jennifer Teege
3.82 avg rating — 6,241 ratings 
73. 
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
by:
Tananarive Due
4.26 avg rating — 141 ratings