6 must-read nonfiction books like A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi

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A Dutiful Boy

By: Mohsin Zaidi

4.57

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Like Educated with a mo…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Dutiful Boy by Mohsin Zaidi , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Missing, Presumed (DS Manon, #1) by Susie Steiner

1. Missing, Presumed (DS Manon, #1)

By: Susie Steiner

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to… read more

Similar categories in Susie Steiner's Missing, Presumed (DS Manon, #1) book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook

2. The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

By: Sathnam Sanghera

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

SOON TO BE A BBC DRAMA The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampto… read more

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3. Persons Unknown (DS Manon, #2)

By: Susie Steiner

5.00

Format: 120 pages,

The sequel to Susie Steiner's bestselling MISSING, PRESUMED Manon has settled back into life in Cam… read more

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4. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
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5. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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6. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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7. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)

By: Helene Tursten

3.76

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 Content: - An elderly lady has accommodation prob… read more

Similar categories in Helene Tursten's An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1) book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
"Maud placed two small cartons of rollmops in the basket of her wheeled walker, followed by a larger pack of herring salad. They were soon joined by a Stilton cheese in a blue porcelain pot, a mature …"

-Helene Tursten, An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)

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8. Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By: Malorie Blackman

4.53

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more

Similar categories in Malorie Blackman's Just Sayin': My Life In Words book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."

-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words

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9. In Defence of the Act

By: Effie Black

4.12

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more

Similar categories in Effie Black's In Defence of the Act book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

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10. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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11. Let the Light Pour In

By: Lemn Sissay

3.67

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G… read more

Similar categories in Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Family Politics

By: John O'Farrell

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more

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13. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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14. A Dutiful Boy

By: Mohsin Zaidi

4.57

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household. Like Educated with a mo… read more

Similar categories in Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. The Kellerby Code

By: Jonny Sweet

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more

Similar categories in Jonny Sweet's The Kellerby Code book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
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16. Remain Silent (DS Manon Bradshaw, #3)

By: Susie Steiner

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An immigrant's mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth--a gripping crime novel from… read more

Similar categories in Susie Steiner's Remain Silent (DS Manon Bradshaw, #3) book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
"I hate positive thinking. Just a way of bullying people, making them feel the bad stuff is their fault."

-Susie Steiner, Remain Silent (DS Manon Bradshaw, #3)

"Her [journalist] father always told his trainees: If one side says it's raining and the other says it's dry, it's not your job to quote both. It's your job to look out of the window and find out the …"

-Susie Steiner, Remain Silent (DS Manon Bradshaw, #3)

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17. That Peckham Boy

By: Kenny Imafidon

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of  Poverty Safari  and  Skint Estate ,  That Peckham Boy  is a reallife manifesto calling… read more

Similar categories in Kenny Imafidon's That Peckham Boy book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. A Trace of Sun

By: Pam Williams

3.73

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more

Similar categories in Pam Williams's A Trace of Sun book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
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19. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's My Family: The Memoir book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A Life Reimagined: My Journey of Hope in the Midst of Loss by Jill Halfpenny

20. A Life Reimagined: My Journey of Hope in the Midst of Loss

By: Jill Halfpenny

3.90

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Heartfelt and honest, A Life Reimagined is a touching memoir of love, loss and life after tragedy f… read more

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21. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

By: Sofie Hagen

4.05

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Will I Ever Have Sex Again? book and Mohsin Zaidi's A Dutiful Boy

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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4.44

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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David Nicholls

4.08

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3.96

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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