11 Best nonfiction books like Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy

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Skid Dogs

By: Emelia Symington-Fedy

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." Ani Difranco "I fell hard …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

1. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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2. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee

3. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • audiobook
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4. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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5. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

Cover of And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

6. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

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  • canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

Cover of Landbridge: life in fragments by Y-Dang Troeung

7. Landbridge: life in fragments

By: Y-Dang Troeung

4.56

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Can… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • audiobook
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8. On the Ravine

By: Vincent Lam

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exqui… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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9. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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10. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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11. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan

12. We Meant Well

By: Erum Shazia Hasan

4.05

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who de… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

13. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and Emelia Symington-Fedy's Skid Dogs

  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell

14. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

By: Brett Popplewell

4.31

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Into the Wild  meets  Born to Run  meets  The Stranger in the Woods  in a fascinating true story of… read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin  Chong

16. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir by Brianna Madia

17. Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

By: Brianna Madia

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Ver… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

By: Brandi Morin

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy

19. Skid Dogs

By: Emelia Symington-Fedy

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." Ani Difranco "I fell hard … read more

Similar categories in Emelia Symington-Fedy's Skid Dogs book and Emelia Symington-Fedy's Skid Dogs

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt

20. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

By: Angela Sterritt

4.51

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
  • canada
Cover of Missing from Me by Heather Shtuka

21. Missing from Me

By: Heather Shtuka

4.02

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Recounting the case of her son Ryan's disappearance in an idyllic Canadian ski town, Heather Shtuka… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

18 must-read audiobook books like Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

Rick Mercer

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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16 Top audiobook books like The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . by Rick Mercer

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

Chris Hadfield

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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