Her book title says it all: Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo is serving “best life ever” realness with her new memoir, Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much, out this month. In its pages, the Wicked star shares many lessons she has gleaned from her personal experience to help us craft a life in which we reach our full potential.

She’s not the only one dropping gems. South Carolina congressman Jim Clyburn schools us on other Black men who dedicated their lives to public service. And Lauretta Malloy Noble unveils the horrific accounts of an attack on the flourishing Black town of Laurinburg, North Carolina, in the late 1800s. Check out these and other must-read books by Black authors, out this November.

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