6 Top autobiography books like Crying in the Bathroom by Erika L. Sánchez

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Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or…

If you liked the autobiography plot in Crying in the Bathroom by Erika L. Sánchez , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Big Chicas Don't Cry

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.22

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year i… read more

Similar categories in Annette Chavez Macias's Big Chicas Don't Cry book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Olga Dies Dreaming

By: Xóchitl González

3.98

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Olga Dies Dreaming book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"

-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

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3. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America

By: Margarita Longoria

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors… read more

Similar categories in Margarita Longoria's Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • essays
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5. Too Soon for Adiós

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional… read more

Similar categories in Annette Chavez Macias's Too Soon for Adiós book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Family Lore

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Solito

By: Javier Zamora

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more

Similar categories in Javier Zamora's Solito book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

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8. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

By: Julissa Arce

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more

Similar categories in Julissa Arce's You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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9. Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more

Similar categories in Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

3.90

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more

Similar categories in Angie Cruz's How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • feminism
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

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11. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

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12. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • adult
  • audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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13. First Gen: A Memoir

By: Alejandra Campoverdi

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching memoir about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina — offering both a rive… read more

Similar categories in Alejandra Campoverdi's First Gen: A Memoir book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Man Who Could Move Clouds

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passiona… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Illegally Yours: A Memoir

By: Rafael Agustin

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin ( Jane The Virgin ) a… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Agustin's Illegally Yours: A Memoir book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Why Didn't You Tell Me?

By: Carmen Rita Wong

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her ident… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Rita Wong's Why Didn't You Tell Me? book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

By: Saraciea J. Fennell

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx co… read more

Similar categories in Saraciea J. Fennell's Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • essays
  • audiobook
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18. For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The founder of Latina Rebels’ “electrifying debut” ( LA Times ) arms women of color with the tools … read more

Similar categories in Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The white people I met were well-meaning, well-read liberal folks who happened to know all the ins and outs of racism and colonialism, but somehow positioned these problems outside of themselves rath…"

-Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

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19. Orgullo prieto

By: Tenoch Huerta

4.47

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

México es un país racista que niega serlo. Con argumentos como "No es racismo, sino clasismo", "Ac… read more

Similar categories in Tenoch Huerta's Orgullo prieto book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Self-Care for Latinas: 100+ Ways to Prioritize & Rejuvenate Your Mind, Body, & Spirit

By: Raquel Reichard

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Prioritize your well-being with more than 100 exercises designed specifically to help Latinas revit… read more

Similar categories in Raquel Reichard's Self-Care for Latinas: 100+ Ways to Prioritize & Rejuvenate Your Mind, Body, & Spirit book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • nonfiction
Cover of Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice by Alma Zaragoza-Petty

21. Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

By: Alma Zaragoza-Petty

4.10

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you've got. To heal the … read more

Similar categories in Alma Zaragoza-Petty's Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice book and Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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Big Chicas Don't Cry

Annette Chavez Macias

4.22

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Olga Dies Dreaming

Xóchitl González

3.98

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Too Soon for Adiós

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4.26

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Family Lore

Elizabeth Acevedo

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

4.46

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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

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