11 must-read biography books like They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents by Neda Toloui-Semnani

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They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

By: Neda Toloui-Semnani

3.79

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In They Said They Wanted Revolution, Neda Semnani tells the story of her parent —their love, the re…

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1. The Taste of Ginger

By: Mansi Shah

3.99

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

In Mansi Shah’s stunning debut novel, a family tragedy beckons a first-generation immigrant to the … read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
"Had I lost my culture? I felt like I was constantly reminded that I was Indian—at work, at a store, when talking to white friends—some part of me was always aware that I wasn’t like the other people …"

-Mansi Shah, The Taste of Ginger

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2. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape

By: Manchán Magan

4.27

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them – a field of corn-grassTuar – a fiel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

By: Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more

Similar categories in Farah Naz Rishi's Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir book and Neda Toloui-Semnani's They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Vanishing Triangle

By: Claire McGowan

3.42

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of What You Did comes a true-crime investigation that cast a dark shado… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Indifference can be fatal. Until we treat every case, every unsolved murder and every suspicious disappearance as equally important, we can’t hope to build up a true picture of what killers are doing…"

-Claire McGowan, The Vanishing Triangle

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5. Where Waters Meet

By: Zhang Ling

3.86

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother’s secret life in an emotional and … read more

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6. North to Paradise

By: Ousman Umar

4.27

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. The Betrayal: The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers

By: Robert Mazur

3.93

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

From Robert Mazur, undercover agent and bestselling author of The Infiltrator, comes the riveting t… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Scarlet Carnation

By: Laila Ibrahim

4.14

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two wo… read more

Similar categories in Laila Ibrahim's Scarlet Carnation book and Neda Toloui-Semnani's They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

  • race
  • audiobook
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9. Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold

By: Umar Turaki

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

An inexplicable sickness. A small town cut off from the world. An unexpected community of survivors… read more

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10. Half in Shadow

By: Gemma Liviero

4.31

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of In a Field of Blue comes an unforgettable novel about courage, love,… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

By: Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

4.06

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional and sweeping memoir of love and survival—and of a committed and desperate family uproo… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Hate is not from God. People who use religion to hate can't love God. It is impossible."

-Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller, The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

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12. This Way Out

By: Tufayel Ahmed

4.03

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you’re getting married (and gay)… read more

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  • religion
"Love is a gift. Mariam's words stick with me. People are more concerned by what two men or two women do in bed than about love. Love is companionship, feeling content and safe in the arms of another …"

-Tufayel Ahmed, This Way Out

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13. Two Spies in Caracas

By: Moisés Naím

3.85

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Power comes an edge-of-your-seat political… read more

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14. Pesos: The Rise and Fall of a Border Family

By: Pietro La Greca Jr.

4.00

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

A true multigenerational story of how one family had and lost it all along the US-Mexican border. … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. War and Me

By: Faleeha Hassan

3.87

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq’s seemingly… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Train to Moscow

By: Elena Gorokhova

3.99

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in th… read more

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17. They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

By: Neda Toloui-Semnani

3.79

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In They Said They Wanted Revolution, Neda Semnani tells the story of her parent —their love, the re… read more

Similar categories in Neda Toloui-Semnani's They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents book and Neda Toloui-Semnani's They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents

  • race
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • iran
  • audiobook
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18. The Community

By: N. Jamiyla Chisholm

3.63

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. American Seoul

By: Helena Rho

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho w… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. This Time for Me

By: Alexandra Billings

4.11

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

By: Diana Marcum

4.05

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the na… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

13 must-read audiobook books like They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents by Neda Toloui-Semnani

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The Taste of Ginger

Mansi Shah

3.99

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Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

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The Vanishing Triangle

Claire McGowan

3.42

Transform Your Habits

The Betrayal: The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers

Robert Mazur

3.93

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11 Best nonfiction books like The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

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On Two Feet and Wings

Abbas Kazerooni

4.22

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Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

Kay Bratt

3.42

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The Puma Years

Laura Coleman

4.34

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North to Paradise

Ousman Umar

4.27

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