Maybe You Never Cry Again
9 best books like Maybe You Never Cry Again (Bernie Mac): The Water Dancer, Taming the Star Runner, Rumble Fish, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Every Little Step: My Story, Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me, How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0440204798 |
Travis is the epitome of cool, even when he's in trouble. But when he's sent to stay with his uncle on a ranch in the country, he finds that his schoolmates don't like his tough city ways. He does find friendship of a sort with Casey, who runs a riding school at the ranch. She's the bravest person Travis has...
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0440975344 |
Rusty-James is the toughest guy in the group of high-school kids who hang out and shoot pool down at Benny's, and he enjoys keeping up his reputation. What he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. He wants to stay calm and laughing when things get dangerous, to be the toughest...
| Author | Ishmael Reed |
| ISBN | 1564782255 |
"For all the talk of the black aesthetic, few black novelists have broken sharply with the traditional devices of the realistic novel. One writer who departs from such conventions, however, is Ishmael Reed. . . . The Free-Lance Pallbearers uses an explosive combination of straightforward English...
Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang
| Author | Ann Pearlman |
| ISBN | 0312329296 |
You can't blame other people for crimes you're guilty of yourself!
‘Inside the Crips’ is such a difficult book to review because even as I start typing I still don’t know if it deserves a 5 Star or a 3 Star. “Give it a 4 Star then,” I hear you shout. No, I can’t sit on the fence like that....
Pimp: The Story of My Life
| Author | Iceberg Slim |
| ISBN | 0862415934 |
“A pimp is happy when his whores giggle. He knows they are still asleep...all whores have one thing in common just like the chumps humping for the white boss. It thrills ‘em when the pimp makes mistakes. They watch and wait for his downfall.
A pimp is the loneliest bastard on Earth. He’s...
Every Little Step: My Story
| Author | Bobby Brown |
| ISBN | 0062442554 |
For the first time ever, the controversial and polarizing bad boy of R&B tells the raw and unvarnished story of his life from New Edition to Whitney and beyond. In MY PREROGATIVE, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship...
Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me
| Author | Charlamagne Tha God |
| ISBN | 1508258651 |
8 Hours
Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success.
Fear is holding you back. It’s time...
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
| Author | D.L. Hughley |
| ISBN | 0062698567 |
3 hours, 45 minutes
A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian—one of "The Original Kings of Comedy"—and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House.
"White people are always giving out ‘helpful’...
