Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

10 best books like Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone) (Kamal Al-Solaylee): I'm Afraid of Men, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Of Sorrow and Such, Brother, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected, The Little Virtues

I'm Afraid of Men

Author	Vivek Shraya
ISBN	0735235937

"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind."
—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers...

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Author

Samra Habib

How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?

Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous....

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Author	Thomas King
ISBN	0385674058

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North...

Of Sorrow and Such

Author	Angela Slatter
ISBN	1466891920

Mistress Gideon is a witch. The locals of Edda's Meadow, if they suspect it of her, say nary a word—Gideon has been good to them, and it's always better to keep on her good side. Just in case.

When a foolish young shapeshifter goes against the wishes of her pack, and gets herself very publicly...

Brother

Author	David Chariandy
ISBN	1635572045

An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.

With shimmering...

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Author	Tanya Talaga
ISBN	1487002262

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied.

More than a quarter of a century later,...

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

Author	Amber Dawn
ISBN	1551525003

As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical...

The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit

Author	J.J. Lee
ISBN	0771046472

Taking as its starting point a son's decision to alter his late father's last remaining suit for himself, this is a deeply moving and brilliantly crafted story of fathers and sons, of fitting in and standing out -- and discovering what it means to be your own man.

For years, journalist and amateur...

Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected

Author	Jagmeet Singh
ISBN	1982105399

From the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party—Jagmeet Singh—comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.

In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in Canada. The historic milestone...

The Little Virtues

Author	Natalia Ginzburg
ISBN	1559700289

"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, "I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt...