19 Best memoir books like I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito

Cover of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

By: Susan Kiyo Ito

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt…

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Cover of Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott

1. Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

By: Anne Lamott

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Splinters by Leslie Jamison

2. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter

3. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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4. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

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5. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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6. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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7. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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8. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's I Must Be Dreaming book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

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

9. 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 Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston

10. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney

11. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

By: Shannon Gibney

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often sur… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Gibney's The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adoption
Cover of The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim

12. The Stone Home

By: Crystal Hana Kim

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean… read more

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Cover of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

13. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • adoption
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

14. 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

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia       Lee

15. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

By: Julia Lee

4.34

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more

Similar categories in Julia Lee's Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • asian literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin

16. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Chin's Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve by J.S. Park

17. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

By: J.S. Park

4.63

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more

Similar categories in J.S. Park's As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

Cover of A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

18. 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 Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • asian literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin

19. The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more

Similar categories in Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • asian literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin

20. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

By: Ava Chin

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more

Similar categories in Ava Chin's Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"

-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

Cover of The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir by Cory Leadbeater

21. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

By: Cory Leadbeater

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more

Similar categories in Cory Leadbeater's The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker

22. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

By: Angela Tucker

4.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more

Similar categories in Angela Tucker's "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adoption
Cover of Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption by Rebecca Christine Wellington

23. Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption

By: Rebecca Christine Wellington

4.76

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Christine Wellington's Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • adoption
Cover of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito

24. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

By: Susan Kiyo Ito

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more

Similar categories in Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • research
  • adoption
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • asian literature
Cover of When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology by Shannon Gibney

25. When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology

By: Shannon Gibney

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to f… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Gibney's When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • adoption
Cover of I Shouldn't Feel This Way: Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action by Alison Cook

26. I Shouldn't Feel This Way: Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action

By: Alison Cook

4.47

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When you're tangled up inside, it's hard to find clarity. Yet so many of us guilt-trip or gaslight … read more

Similar categories in Alison Cook's I Shouldn't Feel This Way: Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
Cover of Woman of Interest: A Memoir by Tracy O'Neill

27. Woman of Interest: A Memoir

By: Tracy O'Neill

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a compulsive… read more

Similar categories in Tracy O'Neill's Woman of Interest: A Memoir book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adoption
Cover of Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir by Zoë Bossiere

28. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

By: Zoë Bossiere

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Bossiere's Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Practically Still a Virgin: An Adoption Memoir by Monica  Hall

29. Practically Still a Virgin: An Adoption Memoir

By: Monica Hall

4.59

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Practically Still a Virgin is the riveting memoir of a fifteen-year-old adoptee’s rape —and the pre… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hall's Practically Still a Virgin: An Adoption Memoir book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • adoption
Cover of Adoption and Suicidality: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Resources for Adoptees, Families, Healthcare Professionals, and Allies (Unraveling Adoption Book Series) by Beth Syverson

30. Adoption and Suicidality: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Resources for Adoptees, Families, Healthcare Professionals, and Allies (Unraveling Adoption Book Series)

By: Beth Syverson

4.84

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is a wake-up call to those impacted by adoption and to those who interact with them. Acco… read more

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Cover of The Heirloomist: 100 Treasures and the Stories They Tell by Shana Novak

31. The Heirloomist: 100 Treasures and the Stories They Tell

By: Shana Novak

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A warm, inviting celebration of beloved keepsakes and the stories they hold. A set of old apartmen… read more

Similar categories in Shana Novak's The Heirloomist: 100 Treasures and the Stories They Tell book and Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

  • nonfiction

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Anne Lamott

3.59

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Leslie Jamison

3.86

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