If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
By: Jill Christman
4.43
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car …
Want to Read $ 21.95If you liked the nonfiction plot in If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives) by Jill Christman , here is a list of 18 books like this:
1. Dancing in Odessa
By: Ilya Kaminsky
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ilya Kaminsky's Dancing in Odessa book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
2. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
By: Roz Chast
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Roz Chast's Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
4. Embroideries
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
From the best-selling author of Persepoliscomes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. A Man Without a Country
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s A Man Without a Country book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
6. The Last Brother
By: Geoffrey Strachan , Nathacha Appanah
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Geoffrey Strachan's The Last Brother book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
7. After
By: Jane Hirshfield
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An investigation into incarnation, transience, and our intimate connection with all existence, by o… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jane Hirshfield's After book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
8. Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors
By: Sarah Stodola
4.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sarah Stodola's Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
9. A Gate at the Stairs
By: Lorrie Moore
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the Stairs book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
10. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
11. They Called Us Enemy
By: George Takei
4.42
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in George Takei's They Called Us Enemy book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
12. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
13. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
14. The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5)
By: Ann Cleeves
3.40
Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition
Ann Cleeves returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Mat… read more
Want to Read $ 0.99Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5) book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
15. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Ross Gay's The Book of Delights: Essays book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
16. Night Boat to Tangier
By: Kevin Barry
3.62
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Kevin Barry's Night Boat to Tangier book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
17. We Do What We Do in the Dark
By: Michelle Hart
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Michelle Hart's We Do What We Do in the Dark book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
18. I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
By: Malaka Gharib
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a t… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Malaka Gharib's I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
By: Mira Jacob
4.46
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
20. Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
By: Margot Douaihy
3.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to … read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Margot Douaihy's Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1) book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
"There is a sublime wholeness in holding one another, fitting into other bodies. We eat the body of Christ. We drink the blood. So many years later, Nina’s taste still laced my mouth—champagne, sweat,…"-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
"I loved the chase. Even Riveaux’s insane driving. Not just the velocity but the violence of it all. I liked speeding through red lights. Headfirst to the edge. Scraping enough skin to burn not bleed.…"-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
21. Have You Been Long Enough At Table
By: Leslie Sainz
4.27
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Marvelous.”―Terrance Hayes Taking its title from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea , Leslie Sain… read more
Want to Read $ 12.44Similar categories in Leslie Sainz's Have You Been Long Enough At Table book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
22. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
23. Fixer: Poems
By: Edgar Kunz
4.20
Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edg… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Edgar Kunz's Fixer: Poems book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
24. 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
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
"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
25. And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
By: Meaghan O'Connell
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of transitioning into motherhood as a fledgli… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Meaghan O'Connell's And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"I don't want to be a mother. I want to be a writer. I want to be taken seriously. I want money. I want more time. I want to lose weight. I want to be beautiful. I want a day completely to myself, tho…"-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
"I didn’t know before that when parents talked about 'checking on' their children, they meant checking to make sure they weren’t dead. And when they talked about their love for their children, maybe t…"-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
"Who wanted to be a mother, anyway? Mom called to mind a relationship with someone, not an individual...There was no mother I wanted to be. I wanted to be myself, but better...To me, this was what a m…"-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
26. If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
By: Jill Christman
4.43
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car … read more
Want to Read $ 21.95Similar categories in Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives) book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
27. Dumb: Living Without a Voice
By: Georgia Webber
3.35
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething cop… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
28. The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives
By: Kelcey Parker Ervick
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times Book Review, "[R]eaders will certainly want to linger on the beautiful dep… read more
Want to Read $ 17.99Similar categories in Kelcey Parker Ervick's The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
29. Under My Bed and Other Essays (American Lives)
By: Jody Keisner
4.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jody Keisner was raised in rural Nebraska towns by a volatile father and kind but passive mother. A… read more
Want to Read $ 21.95Similar categories in Jody Keisner's Under My Bed and Other Essays (American Lives) book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
30. Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor
By: Caleb E. Campbell
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ministering to Christian Nationalists Pastor Caleb Campbell has watched as Christian nationalism h… read more
Want to Read $ 14.81Similar categories in Caleb E. Campbell's Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
- nonfiction
31. The Sea Lion Who Saved the Boy Who Jumped from the Golden Gate
By: Jane McCafferty
4.67
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
The title poem in The Sea Lion is based on a true story, and its suggestion that there is magic in … read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Jane McCafferty's The Sea Lion Who Saved the Boy Who Jumped from the Golden Gate book and Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)
