10 best-selling memoir books like Quiet Street: On American Privilege by Nick McDonell

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Quiet Street: On American Privilege

By: Nick McDonell

3.08

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the r…

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1. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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2. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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3. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

Similar categories in Max Marshall's Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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4. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

Similar categories in Vinson Cunningham's Great Expectations book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • politics
  • audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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5. Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

By: David Frum

3.96

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Trumpocracy poses the essential question facing America to… read more

Similar categories in David Frum's Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We want things to return to normal, back to a world in which we do not have to waste time rebutting demented conspiracy theories and fact-checking farcical lies every single day. We want a government…"

-David Frum, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

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6. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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7. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more

Similar categories in Shahnaz Habib's Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."

-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

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8. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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9. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Herold's Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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10. Private Equity: A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Sun's Private Equity: A Memoir book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."

-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir

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11. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

Similar categories in Wesley Lowery's American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • american history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

12. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

Similar categories in József Debreczeni's Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

13. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay , a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Through the Groves: A Memoir

By: Anne Hull

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer… read more

Similar categories in Anne Hull's Through the Groves: A Memoir book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

Similar categories in Brian Stelter's Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • politics
  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Deadline

By: Jill Lepore

4.30

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

TIME • 10 Best Books of August 2023 A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is th… read more

Similar categories in Jill Lepore's The Deadline book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • american history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Dey's Daughter book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • audiobook
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18. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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19. Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude

By: Nicole Avant

3.61

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A spirit-lifting memoir on how to turn pain into purpose, how to live always in gratitude, and how … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Avant's Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Quiet Street: On American Privilege by Nick McDonell

20. Quiet Street: On American Privilege

By: Nick McDonell

3.08

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the r… read more

Similar categories in Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege book and Nick McDonell's Quiet Street: On American Privilege

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • class
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook

20 Top audiobook books like Quiet Street: On American Privilege by Nick McDonell

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Great Expectations

Vinson Cunningham

3.35

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20 Top audiobook books like Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

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