Books by Safiya Sinclair
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair
🏆 Winner 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
“Safiya Sinclair finds poetry as a pathway out of her abusive, extremely restricted, patriarchal upbringing…Sinclair opens her book with the 1966 visit to Jamaica of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, whom the Rastafari believed was a living god…Sinclair’s father was just a toddler at the time but he was inspired by Marley’s music to join the Rastafari. Sinclair is particularly adept at bringing a personal lens to these larger historical forces and vice versa. It’s a really fascinating memoir.” Read more...
The Best Memoirs: The 2024 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist
May-lee Chai, Short Story Writer
Interviews where books by Safiya Sinclair were recommended
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Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
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The Racket
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Award-Winning Memoirs of 2024
Award-Winning Memoirs of 2024
Whether you fancy a quality sports autobiography or an artfully-illustrated graphic narrative, we’ve got suggestions for you. Here, we’ve put together a concise round-up of the award-winning memoirs of 2024 to help you find highly-acclaimed new books you might otherwise have missed.
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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A Flat Place
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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair
Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Suzannah Lipscomb
Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Suzannah Lipscomb
Since 1996, the Women’s Prize has been awarded the best new novels by female writers. This year, for the very first time, an equivalent prize has been established for female nonfiction writers—whose books receive less coverage and lower advances than those of their male counterparts. Suzannah Lipscomb, historian and chair of the inaugural judging panel, introduces us to the six books that made the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction shortlist.
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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
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Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
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Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
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Story of a Poem: A Memoir
by Matthew Zapruder
The Best Memoirs: The 2024 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist, recommended by May-lee Chai
The Best Memoirs: The 2024 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist, recommended by May-lee Chai
It's been a “phenomenal” year for autobiographical writing, says May-lee Chai—the award-winning author and chair of the judges for this year's National Book Critics Circle prize for autobiography. Here she offers us a tour of the five memoirs that made their 2024 shortlist.
