Books by Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon
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	The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.28 avg rating — 752,119 ratings — published 1982 — 385 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heavy by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 45,020 ratings — published 2018 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Narrator), The New York Times (Contributor), Caitlin Roper (Editor/Narrator), Ilena Silverman (Editor/Narrator) 4.61 avg rating — 24,288 ratings — published 2019 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.14 avg rating — 8,455 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke (Editor)(Narrator), Brené Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor)(Narrator), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Imani Perry (Contributor)(Narrator) 4.52 avg rating — 7,477 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Division by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 8,521 ratings — published 2013 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 5,971 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison (Goodreads Author) (Author, Narrator), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 2,743 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator), Corey Snow (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Rebecca Solnit (Contributor) 3.77 avg rating — 1,691 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin (Goodreads Author), Janina Edwards (Narrator), Brad Sanders (Narrator) 4.24 avg rating — 576 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South by Cinelle Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Jaswinder Bolina (Contributor), Regina N. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jennifer Hope Choi (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You’ve Got a Place Here, Too by Ebony LaDelle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Farrah Rochon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City Summer, Country Summer by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author), Alexis Franklin (illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 182 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McSweeney's Issue 49: Cover Stories (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, #49) by Dave Eggers (Editor), Emily Raboteau (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Megan Mayhew Bergman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Anthony Marra (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.77 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	(H)afrocentric Comics: Volumes 1–4 by Juliana "Jewels" Smith, Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Mike Hampton (Illustrator), Ronald Nelson (Illustrator) 3.22 avg rating — 134 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oliver Stone Experience by Matt Zoller Seitz, Ramin Bahrani (Foreword), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.39 avg rating — 64 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Life: 10 Writers on Love, Fear, and Hope in the Age of Disasters by Garrett M. Graff (Goodreads Author), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author), Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author), Bill McKibben 3.19 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion by Zeke Caligiuri (Editor), Eula Biss, Michael Torres, Alice Paige 4.41 avg rating — 49 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South: A Photographic Road Trip by Kate Medley, Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing by Doug Paul Case (Editor), Kaveh Akbar (Contributor), Dason Anderson (Contributor), Noah Baldino (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Yearbook [Portraits and Stories] by Adraint Bereal, Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Name Is City by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And So On by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversations with Kiese Laymon (Literary Conversations Series) by Constance Bailey (Editor), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration by Jessica Bell Brown (Editor), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jessica Lynne (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	# 2 by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hey Mama by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Soft Fence by Gioncarlo Valentine, Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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