Nonfiction Books by BIPOC Authors
From memoirs and essays to history and political commentary, nonfiction examines how we live, remember, and make meaning of the world around us. Browse activism and social justice, demographic studies, and discrimination & racism.
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- 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 Jesmyn Ward
- Demographic Studies, Essays, History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2026
The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From...
- Literary Criticism & Theory, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2026
An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by award-winning novelist and Harvard professor Namwali Serpell. Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has...
- Nonfiction, Science
- Publication Year: 2026
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos. In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle physicist Dr....
- 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...
- by Zadie Smith
- Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays. In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist...
- Personal Finance
- Publication Year: 2025
In Wealth Is a Mindset, Shang Saavedra, Founder of Save My Cents and top personal finance coach, creates a judgment-free space for readers to learn about personal finance and make...
- by Michael Luo
- Cultural Anthropology, History, Immigrant Stories, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle...
- by Imani Perry
- Demographic Studies, History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has...
- Demographic Studies, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
This empowering book blends history, storytelling, and culturally grounded techniques to equip readers with the tools needed to promote self-reflection, personal growth, and diasporic healing. Asian Americans represent the fastest...
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...