10 Top biography books like The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Cover of The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

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…

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Cover of If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

1. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • family
  • audiobook
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

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2. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

By: Robert Samuels

4.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more

Similar categories in Robert Samuels's His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

3. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • historical
  • audiobook
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4. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • historical
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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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 Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • audiobook
Cover of Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones

6. Easy Beauty

By: Chloé Cooper Jones

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more

Similar categories in Chloé Cooper Jones's Easy Beauty book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."

-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

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7. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

Similar categories in Hua Hsu's Stay True book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

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8. 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 Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • magical realism
  • family
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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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10. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

Similar categories in Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • magical realism
  • audiobook
Cover of Crying in the Bathroom by Erika L. Sánchez

11. 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 Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

12. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

Similar categories in Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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13. 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 Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • 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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14. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Night of the Living Rez book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • audiobook
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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15. When We Were Sisters

By: Fatimah Asghar

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more

Similar categories in Fatimah Asghar's When We Were Sisters book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

16. 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 Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • magic
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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17. The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more

Similar categories in Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

18. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

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

19. 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 Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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20. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

Similar categories in Marcela Fuentes's Malas book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • historical
  • audiobook
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21. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

By: Zoë Bossiere

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Bossiere's Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir book and Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

21 Top audiobook books like The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Transform Your Habits

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Transform Your Habits

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels

4.52

Transform Your Habits

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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21 Top audiobook books like Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

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