13 Top memoir books like Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor by Anna Qu

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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

By: Anna Qu

3.85

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerf…

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1. All You Can Ever Know

By: Nicole Chung

3.77

Format: 300 pages,

All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's All You Can Ever Know book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Wide Circumference of Love

By: Marita Golden

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning author, a moving story of acceptance, adaptation, and unconditional love in t… read more

Similar categories in Marita Golden's The Wide Circumference of Love book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • family

3. The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army

By: Stephan Talty

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"Gripping . . . a compelling story of personal hubris and humbling defeat." --Jack Weatherford,auth… read more

Similar categories in Stephan Talty's The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

4. Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength

By: Liz Pryor

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A vivid portrait of a secret teenage pregnancy, in 1979, that would change the author's life foreve… read more

Similar categories in Liz Pryor's Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

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5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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6. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

4.47

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” ―Ta-Nehisi Co… read more

Similar categories in Mehrsa Baradaran's The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with b…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

"The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. The panic would not have affected the bank if i…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

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7. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

Similar categories in Emi Nietfeld's Acceptance: A Memoir book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

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8. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Chin's Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

By: Anna Qu

3.85

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerf… read more

Similar categories in Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • china
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Deceit and Other Possibilities

By: Vanessa Hua

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this powerful debut collection, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new A… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Hua's Deceit and Other Possibilities book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • asia
  • audiobook
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12. The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans

By: Laura Trethewey

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and… read more

Similar categories in Laura Trethewey's The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Legitimate Kid: A Memoir

By: Aida Rodríguez

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and moving memoir-in-essays from stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez on the power of overco… read more

Similar categories in Aida Rodríguez's Legitimate Kid: A Memoir book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang

14. Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods

By: Amelia Pang

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap… read more

Similar categories in Amelia Pang's Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • history
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
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15. Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

By: Kat Chow

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander, an intimate and haunting portrait of grief … read more

Similar categories in Kat Chow's Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Our time with our mother was a past life—some version of ourselves from which we’d become estranged."

-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

"But, Mommy, grief is a container of contradictions. I want to expel something, though I do not know what. I want to rid myself of this heaviness, just as much as I want to keep your ghosts."

-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

"I often tell myself, I am young, my body is strong, and I delay making appointment after appointment, physical after physical, until I think about my mother, and I schedule something for the next wee…"

-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

"My father often talks of survival - do whatever is necessary to succeed - but where in this idea does satisfaction factor? Mommy, I am asking about your happiness - and yet, I am only able to reach a…"

-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

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16. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

By: Elizabeth Miki Brina

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to unde… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Miki Brina's Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It’s not. It dictates everything. Because even…"

-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It's not. It dictates everything. Because even…"

-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

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17. Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family

By: Erika Hayasaki

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, eac… read more

Similar categories in Erika Hayasaki's Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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18. Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History)

By: Catherine Ceniza Choy

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ceniza Choy's Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History) book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. The Bright Side: Twelve Months, Three Heartbreaks, and One (Maybe) Miracle

By: Cathrin Bradbury

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Anyone who has had their life completely gutted and rewired will adore this family story. Bradbury'… read more

Similar categories in Cathrin Bradbury's The Bright Side: Twelve Months, Three Heartbreaks, and One (Maybe) Miracle book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of My Dead Parents: A Memoir by Anya Yurchyshyn

20. My Dead Parents: A Memoir

By: Anya Yurchyshyn

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“In this beautifully written, poignant, honest, and unflinching work, the author takes readers with… read more

Similar categories in Anya Yurchyshyn's My Dead Parents: A Memoir book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Handsome

By: Holly Lorka

4.10

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

As a horny little kid, Holly Lorka had no idea why God had put her in the wrong body and made her w… read more

Similar categories in Holly Lorka's Handsome book and Anna Qu's Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Acceptance: A Memoir

Emi Nietfeld

4.21

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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

Curtis Chin

3.80

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House of Sticks

Ly Tran

4.38

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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