5 best-selling biography books like The Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin

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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…

If you liked the biography plot in The Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing

By: Margot Livesey

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

"Read everything that is good for the good of your soul. Then learn to read as a writer, to search … read more

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2. Brutalities: A Love Story

By: Margo Steines

4.16

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more

Similar categories in Margo Steines's Brutalities: A Love Story book and Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"

-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story

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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

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  • audiobook
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4. 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

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  • audiobook
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5. People Collide

By: Isle McElroy

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat J… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. The Liberators

By: E.J. Koh

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Koh's The Liberators book and Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade

  • asian literature
  • audiobook
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7. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

By: Matthew Salesses

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practica… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Salesses's Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping book and Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Workshops operate on the golden-rule policy: do for others as you want for yourself. Your fellow classmates will see from your comments what kind of feedback to give no matter how much of a push the …"

-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

"You should ask macro questions and point out macro opportunities. Which means, for example, you might state your understanding (or not) of the story, list observations that seem especially juicy, ask…"

-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

"When you are workshopped, it is important to remember that you will not connect with everything that is said. You shouldn’t! Don’t listen to everything; don’t take every suggestion—trust your instinc…"

-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

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8. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

By: Tessa Hulls

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
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9. 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

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  • asian literature
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10. The Sorrows of Others

By: Ada Zhang

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i… read more

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  • asian literature
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11. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

By: Athena Dixon

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

I am overwhelmingly lonely. And I cannot believe that doesn’t matter and I will not believe there a… read more

Similar categories in Athena Dixon's The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays book and Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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14. Mood Swings

By: Frankie Barnet

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more

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16. Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

By: Walela Nehanda

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racis… read more

Similar categories in Walela Nehanda's Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir book and Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

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19. 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

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  • audiobook
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20. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

By: Sarah Gerard

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gerard's Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable book and Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

By: Alana Saab

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world marks the arr… read more

Similar categories in Alana Saab's Please Stop Trying to Leave Me book and Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade

  • mental health
"Today, if someone asked me what, if not a bird, if not fire, is love to me, I would most likely say, surrender."

-Alana Saab, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

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4.16

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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3.78

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People Collide

Isle McElroy

3.55

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Lisa Ko

3.22

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3.89

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