Full name: Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

Author: Queen Latifah Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Self help Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

Modeled after Maria Shriver's Just Who Will You Be, Queen Latifah's goal with Put On Your Crown is to help young women build a strong sense of self-esteem. A US Dept. of Justice survey found that females ages 16-24 are more vulnerable to partner violence than any other group, almost triple the national average. Cases like Chris Brown's assault on pop star Rihanna showed an ugly side of adolescent life. However, Queen Latifah has always been a shining example of a woman happy with herself and unwilling to compromise to fit into the "hollywood ideal" of what a confident beautiful woman should look like. The result: She's one of the biggest A-list celebrities in Hollywood. Similar books: Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey Scary Close by Donald Miller Everything That Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist Lessons from Madame Chic by Jennifer L. Scott Listening Below the Noise by Anne LeClaire Present Over Perfect Study Guide by Shauna Niequist Year of No Clutter by Eve Schaub Slow Love by Dominique Browning Going Gray by Anne Kreamer May I Be Happy by Cyndi Lee The Frugalista Files by Natalie McNeal Getting the Pretty Back by Molly Ringwald The Color of Water by James McBride Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown Faith in the Valley by Iyanla Vanzant Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper The Conversation by Hill Harper Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow