21 Best audiobook books like If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America by Vicki Sokolik

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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

By: Vicki Sokolik

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman …

If you liked the audiobook plot in If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America by Vicki Sokolik , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

Similar categories in Rob Henderson's Troubled book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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2. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
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3. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

Similar categories in Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • audiobook
Cover of The Wives: A Memoir by Simone Gorrindo

4. The Wives: A Memoir

By: Simone Gorrindo

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more

Similar categories in Simone Gorrindo's The Wives: A Memoir book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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5. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

By: Shannon Reed

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Reed's Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"Life is so much better with books than without."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

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7. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

Similar categories in Uché Blackstock's Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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10. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

By: Earl Swift

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more

Similar categories in Earl Swift's Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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12. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America

By: Kevin F. Adler

4.26

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Think about the last time you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did … read more

Similar categories in Kevin F. Adler's When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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14. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

Similar categories in Nancy French's Ghosted: An American Story book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. A Fire So Wild

By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional echoes of  Little Fires Everywhere  and the lush atmosphere of  Disappearing Ear… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • audiobook
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16. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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17. Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family

By: Mark Daley

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A candid, unforgettable, and often hilarious memoir of two dads daunting quest for fatherhood. A… read more

Similar categories in Mark Daley's Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

By: Vicki Sokolik

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman … read more

Similar categories in Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • biography
  • memoir
  • social work
  • mental health
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • education
  • audiobook
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19. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • social issues
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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20. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

By: Jim Morris

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more

Similar categories in Jim Morris's The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

By: Rachelle Bergstein

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more

Similar categories in Rachelle Bergstein's The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us book and Vicki Sokolik's If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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3.79

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Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

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Kirsten Miller

4.19

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