11 best-selling memoir books like My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes

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My Broken Language

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age aga…

"God is the opiate of the masses."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"God is the opiate of the masses."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"She was made of exclamation points."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"She was made of exclamation points."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

If you liked the memoir plot in My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir

By: Daisy Hernández

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Hernández's A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

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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 Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • family
  • 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. 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 Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • family
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • 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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5. 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 Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • audiobook
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6. 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 Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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8. Las Madres

By: Esmeralda Santiago

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more

Similar categories in Esmeralda Santiago's Las Madres book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • race
  • audiobook
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9. My Broken Language

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes tells her lyrical story of coming of age aga… read more

Similar categories in Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • language
  • coming of age
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"God is the opiate of the masses."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"She was made of exclamation points."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"Maybe midnight was the hour of answers."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

"Writing's a muscle... it gets stronger."

-Quiara Alegría Hudes, My Broken Language

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10. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

By: Héctor Tobar

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more

Similar categories in Héctor Tobar's Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. House of Sticks

By: Ly Tran

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T… read more

Similar categories in Ly Tran's House of Sticks book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • race
  • audiobook
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13. Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America

By: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

4.39

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Essential reading from an expert voice our country Luis Miranda’s personal and political memoir re… read more

Similar categories in Luis A. Miranda Jr.'s Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • memoir
  • family
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14. Daughters of the Stone

By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

4.15

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The 10th Anniversary Trade Paperback edition of Daughters of the Stone, includes a special note fro… read more

Similar categories in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's Daughters of the Stone book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

"We all have stories. Sometimes the pain lies so heavily inside us that it can only be whispered. Sometimes it can't be spoken out loud at all. So you think you're different? There are many silences. …"

-Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone

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15. Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

By: Eddie Ahn

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving … read more

Similar categories in Eddie Ahn's Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. In the Heights: Finding Home

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda

4.45

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

In 2008, In the Heights, a new musical from up-and-coming young artists, electrified Broadway. The … read more

Similar categories in Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights: Finding Home book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • coming of age
  • audiobook
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19. God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

By: Joseph Earl Thomas

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, unsparing debut novel about black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intima… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Earl Thomas's God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • race
  • audiobook
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20. Velorio

By: Xavier Navarro Aquino

3.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featured on NPR's WEEKEND EDITION Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino's un… read more

Similar categories in Xavier Navarro Aquino's Velorio book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • audiobook
"Everyone now links hands and sways from side to side like the waves kissing the shore."

-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

"I am naked, and the moon is me and I am it since no one is there with us, we're married and the same"."

-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

"When we returned to memoria, the clouds were still thick overhead, pregnant with rain but unwilling to release"."

-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

"It is time for you to return to God, goliflón. It is time we send you off because you are a puppet stuffed and made to guard, that is your use"."

-Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

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21. Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere

By: Robert Lopez

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no… read more

Similar categories in Robert Lopez's Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's My Broken Language

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

16 best-selling audiobook books like My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Transform Your Habits

Olga Dies Dreaming

Xóchitl González

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Family Lore

Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Solito

Javier Zamora

4.48

Transform Your Habits

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Julia Alvarez

3.68

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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

Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

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3.53

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