5 Top biography memoir books like Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes by Anthony Veasna So

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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

By: Anthony Veasna So

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub By the New…

"We're minorities within minorities, I'd often repeat to my friend, in an attempt to subdue his frustration with the compounding obstacles of his life."

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

"You can only keep up the precarious act of sustaining this fantasy of a better world for so long when not much has actually changed in our favor. But as long as there's something new in our queue, after binging on a season or two, we can move on, forestalling a confrontation with the shallow, messy world we ultimately inhabit."

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

"But—please, hear me out—don't you think difference breathes in the expanses that lie amid your monotonous thoughts? Even as you see in the future only suicide, your mind fosters so many novel meanings that are essential, rabbit holes leading to unknown hours and possibilities, and maybe if you wait, for just a bit longer, these meanings will bleed into your being, restructuring the reserves of your spirit, and maybe then, after a serious exploration of all that is true, you, my dear friend, will feel something akin to new."

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes by Anthony Veasna So , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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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3. 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 Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • literary fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Family Meal book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • literary fiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

Similar categories in Jhumpa Lahiri's Roman Stories book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"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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7. 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 Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • 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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8. 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 Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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9. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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10. Tomb Sweeping

By: Alexandra Chang

3.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Chang's Tomb Sweeping book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

Similar categories in Juli Min's Shanghailanders book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

Similar categories in Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • short stories
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

13. 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 Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Eyeliner: A Cultural History

By: Zahra Hankir

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersecti… read more

Similar categories in Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. All the World Beside

By: Garrard Conley

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more

Similar categories in Garrard Conley's All the World Beside book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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16. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

Similar categories in Viet Thanh Nguyen's A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

By: Anthony Veasna So

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub By the New… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • queer
"We're minorities within minorities, I'd often repeat to my friend, in an attempt to subdue his frustration with the compounding obstacles of his life."

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

"You can only keep up the precarious act of sustaining this fantasy of a better world for so long when not much has actually changed in our favor. But as long as there's something new in our queue, af…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

"But—please, hear me out—don't you think difference breathes in the expanses that lie amid your monotonous thoughts? Even as you see in the future only suicide, your mind fosters so many novel meaning…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

Cover of Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon

18. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more

Similar categories in Chantha Nguon's Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

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19. The Fox Maidens

By: Robin Ha

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic new graphic novel fantasy—a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korea… read more

Similar categories in Robin Ha's The Fox Maidens book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • lgbt
  • queer
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20. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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21. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Anthony Veasna So's Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

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4.15

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