Memoir and Biography Books by BIPOC Authors
- by Anand Gopal
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2026
From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, a mesmerizing and powerful account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the tradition of classic works by Philip...
- by Kari Ferrell
- Adoption, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
The compelling, edgy, compassionate, laugh-out-loud memoir from Kari Ferrell, formerly known as the “Hipster Grifter”. Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at a young...
- by Scaachi Koul
- Essays, Humor Essays, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today. Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the...
- by Freda Epum
- Feminism and Feminist Theory, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Merging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American’s search for home and belonging on her own terms. In The Gloomy Girl Variety Show, Freda...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2025
In 2013, the trajectory of Amanda Nguyen’s life was changed forever when she was raped at Harvard University. Determined not to let her assault derail her goal of joining NASA...
- Activism and Social Justice, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell. Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part...
- Biographies, Demographic Studies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, Political Commentary, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2025
Generated from the life histories of ten Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) elders (kūpuna) who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or māhū (LGBTQM), this book reveals the way they experienced...
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
An original memoir in essays that interrogates how identities are shaped and informed in online spaces and how the relationship between race and the Internet has changed in his three...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible. Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at...
- by Hala Alyan
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
The rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past,...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother,...
- by Yiyun Li
- Death and Dying, Essays, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Things in Nature Merely Grow is Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her sons James and Vincent. “There is no good way...
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
“Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock… what is soft is strong.” —Lao TzuIn 1920s Detroit. King Ying lives in a small apartment behind her parents’...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman’s dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land...
- Biographies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
How do power and beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does that ugliness play in fomenting hatred? Moshtari Hilal, an Afghan-born author and artist who...
- Biographies, History
- Publication Year: 2025
A poignant memoir by journalist Margaret Juhae Lee, who sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the...
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed...
- Essays, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A Taiwanese American writer unfurls themes of memory, dislocation, language, and loss to tell a unique story about reclaiming one’s heritage while living in a diaspora. Born in Taiwan, Grace...
- Essays, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation...
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told from the perspective of the author’s incredible mother who survived, and helped her family escape,...
- by Akilah Cadet
- Cultural Anthropology, Discrimination and Racism, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction, People with Disabilities
- Publication Year: 2024
This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me to...
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Before Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her...
107 Days
For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American...