15 Entertainment Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame edited by by Jennifer Adese & Robert Alexander Innes
• The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
• Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle
• Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang by Lamont U-God Hawkins
• Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks
• Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric by Madison Moore
• Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama
• Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
• Everything’s Trash But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
• Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano
• The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed by Shea Serrano
• This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
• I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone by Nina Simone
• Iwao Takamoto: My Life With A Thousand Characters by Iwao Takamoto
• EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted