12 Best nonfiction books like A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham

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A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

By: Lauren Markham

4.08

Format: 263 pages, ebook

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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2. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook
Cover of City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter

3. City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more

Similar categories in Temim Fruchter's City of Laughter book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook
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4. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ko's Memory Piece book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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5. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

6. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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7. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

Similar categories in Caoilinn Hughes's The Alternatives book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook
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8. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Tomlinson's Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham

9. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

By: Lauren Markham

4.08

Format: 263 pages, ebook

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • greece
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10. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.91

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more

Similar categories in Kōhei Saitō's Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

12. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Get What You Pay For: Essays by Morgan  Parker

13. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily  Raboteau

14. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

By: Emily Raboteau

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more

Similar categories in Emily Raboteau's Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

15. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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16. School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

By: Laura Pappano

3.91

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

An on-the-ground look at the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public… read more

Similar categories in Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more

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18. Broughtupsy

By: Christina Cooke

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican wo… read more

Similar categories in Christina Cooke's Broughtupsy book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook
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19. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook
Cover of Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir by Priyanka Mattoo

20. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir

By: Priyanka Mattoo

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman's peripatetic search for home, … read more

Similar categories in Priyanka Mattoo's Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

  • audiobook

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Jennifer Croft

3.26

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Miranda July

3.81

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