22 Top memoir books like The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton

Cover of The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton

The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

By: Lisa M. Hamilton

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, a deeply reported drama ranging from the mist-c…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of Last House by Jessica Shattuck

1. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Shattuck's Last House book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • war
  • audiobook
Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

2. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller

3. Travel Light, Move Fast

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Travel Light, Move Fast book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump

4. The New Naturals

By: Gabriel Bump

2.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don't Belong, a touching, timely n… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Bump's The New Naturals book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • audiobook
Cover of The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle    Tometich

5. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

Similar categories in Annabelle Tometich's The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Absolution by Alice McDermott

6. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • asia
  • war
  • audiobook
Cover of Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong by Michael Wejchert

7. Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong

By: Michael Wejchert

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible res… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wejchert's Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

8. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil

9. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

By: Tahir Hamut Izgil

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more

Similar categories in Tahir Hamut Izgil's Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."

-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Cover of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

10. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh

11. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Side of the River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

12. 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 Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

13. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

Similar categories in Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

14. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa

15. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender: A Memoir book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

Cover of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton

16. 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 Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller

17. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Cover of A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham

18. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

By: Lauren Markham

4.08

Format: 263 pages, ebook

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story (Random House Large Print) by Tom Brokaw

19. Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story (Random House Large Print)

By: Tom Brokaw

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles t… read more

Similar categories in Tom Brokaw's Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story (Random House Large Print) book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance by Azam Ahmed

20. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance

By: Azam Ahmed

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her … read more

Similar categories in Azam Ahmed's Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles

21. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

By: Tiya Miles

3.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became… read more

Similar categories in Tiya Miles's Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster

22. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

Similar categories in Simon Shuster's The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

23. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

Similar categories in Viet Thanh Nguyen's A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • asia
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them by Tove Danovich

24. Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them

By: Tove Danovich

4.21

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accid… read more

Similar categories in Tove Danovich's Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life by Matt       Hay

25. Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life

By: Matt Hay

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Hay's Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

26. 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 Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton

27. The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

By: Lisa M. Hamilton

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, a deeply reported drama ranging from the mist-c… read more

Similar categories in Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Omega Farm: A Memoir by Martha McPhee

28. Omega Farm: A Memoir

By: Martha McPhee

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist—a candid, riveting account of her complicated,… read more

Similar categories in Martha McPhee's Omega Farm: A Memoir book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins by Jennet Conant

29. Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins

By: Jennet Conant

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight t… read more

Similar categories in Jennet Conant's Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors by Banning Lyon

30. The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors

By: Banning Lyon

4.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incredible memoir about one man’s journey to heal from trauma through chosen family, friendship,… read more

Similar categories in Banning Lyon's The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors book and Lisa M. Hamilton's The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Jessica Shattuck

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4.45

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Gabriel Bump

2.88

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4.30

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Tommy Orange

3.89

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Rachel Khong

4.04

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