African American Lives

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,193 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 — 568,976 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 131,999 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,616 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,306 ratings
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Soul on Ice
Soul on Ice 3.97 avg rating — 14,658 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,084 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience
Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience 4.25 avg rating — 173 ratings
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An Autobiography
An Autobiography 4.44 avg rating — 10,450 ratings
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years 4.17 avg rating — 14,167 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,155 ratings
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Brother, I'm Dying
Brother, I'm Dying 4.16 avg rating — 7,577 ratings
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Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road 4.11 avg rating — 8,197 ratings
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Bone Black
Bone Black 4.26 avg rating — 4,137 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,134 ratings
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My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole 4.31 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
Buck: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,286 ratings
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The Color of Water
The Color of Water 4.15 avg rating — 131,558 ratings
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Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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Born Into Crisis: A Memoir
Born Into Crisis: A Memoir 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Big Sea
The Big Sea 4.22 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story 4.30 avg rating — 4,578 ratings
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Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir 3.42 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Love Unlimited: Insights on Life and Love
Love Unlimited: Insights on Life and Love 4.17 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness 4.19 avg rating — 24,465 ratings
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Insatiable: The Rise of a Porn Star
Insatiable: The Rise of a Porn Star 3.39 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,634 ratings
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Callus on My Soul
Callus on My Soul 4.38 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir 4.18 avg rating — 320 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,252 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.34 avg rating — 23,719 ratings
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Nigger
Nigger 4.40 avg rating — 9,281 ratings
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My Country 'Tis of Thee
My Country 'Tis of Thee 3.61 avg rating — 956 ratings
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What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir 4.34 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” 4.05 avg rating — 32,083 ratings
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement 4.60 avg rating — 3,777 ratings
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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village 4.33 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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On the Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of 'Straight' Black Men Who Sleep with Men
On the Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of 'Straight' Black Men Who Sleep with Men
by: J.L. King
3.58 avg rating — 893 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 — 16,468 ratings
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Why We Can't Wait
Why We Can't Wait 4.54 avg rating — 8,975 ratings
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Manchild in the Promised Land
Manchild in the Promised Land 4.28 avg rating — 9,113 ratings
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Heavy
Heavy 4.47 avg rating — 43,664 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,661 ratings
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Vernon Can Read!
Vernon Can Read! 4.13 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 673 ratings
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Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter
Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Beyond Me: Finding Your Way to Life's Next Level
Beyond Me: Finding Your Way to Life's Next Level 4.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Man from Macedonia: My life of service, struggle, faith, and hope
Man from Macedonia: My life of service, struggle, faith, and hope 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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There and Now (Volume #1)
There and Now (Volume #1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Day My Mother Never Came Home
The Day My Mother Never Came Home 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (Volume 19) (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century)
Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (Volume 19) (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Negroland
Negroland 3.62 avg rating — 7,833 ratings
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The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir
The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir 3.98 avg rating — 1,410 ratings
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat 4.44 avg rating — 15,392 ratings
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Everything and Nothing : The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
Everything and Nothing : The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy 4.06 avg rating — 104 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,873 ratings
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The House at Sugar Beach
The House at Sugar Beach 3.91 avg rating — 8,008 ratings
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Confessions of a Video Vixen: An Eye-Opening Memoir of Survival, Abuse, and Redemption in the Music Industry
Confessions of a Video Vixen: An Eye-Opening Memoir of Survival, Abuse, and Redemption in the Music Industry 3.41 avg rating — 6,341 ratings
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone 4.10 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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Between Each Line of Pain and Glory: My Life Story
Between Each Line of Pain and Glory: My Life Story 4.07 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Finding Fish
Finding Fish 4.15 avg rating — 5,142 ratings
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Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait
Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait 4.11 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now 4.30 avg rating — 10,770 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,110 ratings
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South 3.87 avg rating — 8,046 ratings
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Voices in the Mirror
Voices in the Mirror 4.38 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,858 ratings
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays 4.14 avg rating — 4,694 ratings
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The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir 4.21 avg rating — 293 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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Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism 4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary
Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings
Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings 4.88 avg rating — 8 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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Colored People: A Memoir
Colored People: A Memoir 4.12 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
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Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist
Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist 3.94 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa 4.18 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March 4.18 avg rating — 3,869 ratings
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The Yellow House
The Yellow House 3.89 avg rating — 25,004 ratings
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Foxy: My Life in Three Acts
Foxy: My Life in Three Acts
by: Pam Grier
3.96 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Black Ice: A Memoir
Black Ice: A Memoir 3.59 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother
Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother 3.99 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond
The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Inadmissible Evidence: The Story of the African-American Trial Lawyer Who Defended the Black Liberation Army
Inadmissible Evidence: The Story of the African-American Trial Lawyer Who Defended the Black Liberation Army 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Godfather of Soul: An Autobiography
The Godfather of Soul: An Autobiography 3.87 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 4.18 avg rating — 16,209 ratings
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Destined to Witness : Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
Destined to Witness : Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany 4.31 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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Fly In The Buttermilk: Memoirs of an African American in Advertising, Design & Design Education.
Fly In The Buttermilk: Memoirs of an African American in Advertising, Design & Design Education. 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
by: Fantasia
4.11 avg rating — 361 ratings
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain 3.84 avg rating — 23,540 ratings
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Truly Blessed
Truly Blessed 4.12 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Substance of Things Hoped for: A Memoir of African-American Faith
The Substance of Things Hoped for: A Memoir of African-American Faith 4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells 4.32 avg rating — 826 ratings
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An Actor and a Gentleman
An Actor and a Gentleman 3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Your Body's Calling Me: Music, Love, Sex & Money: The Life & Times of "Robert" R. Kelly
Your Body's Calling Me: Music, Love, Sex & Money: The Life & Times of "Robert" R. Kelly 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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He Talk Like a White Boy
He Talk Like a White Boy 3.81 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Live from Death Row
Live from Death Row 4.24 avg rating — 2,555 ratings
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