24 Top nonfiction books like Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead

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Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

By: Rebecca Mead

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure…

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1. The Glimpses of the Moon

By: Edith Wharton , Regina Barreca

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Set in the 1920s, Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy … read more

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"Сюзи Бранч по мужски относилась к данному слову..."

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"О, благословенная нравственная свобода, которую дарует богатство!"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"...её... память не соответствовала широте её интересов. (О миссис Хикс)"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"...жить, как живут рабочие, в двух комнатах, без прислуги... (Сюзи Бранч - Стреффорду)"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

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2. Living Well Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

By: Ruth Soukup

3.67

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Living Well, Spending Less is Ruth Soukup's first book, following her wildly successful blog of the… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Seating Arrangements

By: Maggie Shipstead

3.00

Format: 1118 pages, Hardcover

Winn Van Meter is heading for his family's retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. N… read more

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4. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • british literature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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6. Ready For Absolutely Nothing

By: Susannah Constantine

3.91

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

'A rollicking ride . . . What a life' SUNDAY TIMESEssential reading for anyone who secretly just wa… read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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7. The Librarian

By: Salley Vickers

3.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Clea… read more

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  • british literature
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8. The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more

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  • biography memoir
"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

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9. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

By: Hadley Freeman

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"

-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

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10. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

Similar categories in Henry Dimbleby's Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape book and Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

  • nonfiction
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11. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

  • nonfiction
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12. 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

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

By: Kimberly Harrington

3.69

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour , Kimberl… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. In general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about …"

-Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

"He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. I’m general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about…"

-Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

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14. Whenever You're Ready

By: Trish Bolton

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An unexpected death finds Lizzie, Alice and Margot at various crossroads in their lives, torn betwe… read more

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"Lizzie understood too well the focus on the task. The bottom to be washed, the bed to be changed, human attentions lost to overwork and time management. What must it be like to work in such a place t…"

-Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

"It always felt strange that life outside went on, thought Lizzie, after saying goodbye to her mother, there was so much sorrow within those four walls, she wondered how it could possibly be contained…"

-Trish Bolton, Whenever You're Ready

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15. 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 Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...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

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16. I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

By: Jami Attenberg

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and e… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home book and Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. Crow Talk

By: Eileen Garvin

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more

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18. 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

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  • new york
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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19. Translating Myself and Others

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary transla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"To translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

"To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

"Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mi…"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

"We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose ex…"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

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20. The Instant

By: Amy Liptrot

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more

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  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."

-Amy Liptrot, The Instant

"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."

-Amy Liptrot, The Instant

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21. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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22. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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23. A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

By: Frances Mayes

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author … read more

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  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Much about home is imagining home"

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"I will translate myself into a new language."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"The first thing to know about living in an old house: The walls are alive."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"As much as you own an old house and garden, it owns you. There's a continuum in progress."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

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24. The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

By: Tina Brown

3.75

Format: 17 pages, Audio CD

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief o… read more

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  • new york
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Writing doesn't improve by not doing it."

-Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

"Deadlines are a great antidote to insecurity."

-Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

"To maintain momentum, you must rejoice in risk."

-Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

"A magazine—a relevant one—should be a sound, not an echo."

-Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

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25. The Reluctant Carer: Dispatches from the Edge of Life

By: The Reluctant Carer

3.95

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

An irresistibly moving, funny and urgent memoir about the reality of caring for your parents, when … read more

Similar categories in The Reluctant Carer's The Reluctant Carer: Dispatches from the Edge of Life book and Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru by Hugh Bonneville

26. Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru

By: Hugh Bonneville

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A The Times (UK) and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one o… read more

Similar categories in Hugh Bonneville's Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru book and Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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27. The Right Sort of Girl

By: Anita Rani

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Anita's debut novel Baby Does a Runner is available to pre-order now - coming July 2023! Fizzing w… read more

Similar categories in Anita Rani's The Right Sort of Girl book and Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

By: Rebecca Mead

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return book and Rebecca Mead's Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

  • new york
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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29. The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

By: Ben Aitken

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Charming, touching and very very funny" — Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling authorONE HOUSE… read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I ask what inscription she'd have on her headstone. She gives it some thought, then says, 'Was meant to be enjoying herself but polished the doorknob instead."

-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

"She says there's been a few drops of snow in Yorkshire so the BBC are calling it a White Christmas. I say that's like calling me a vegetarian because I eat peas twice a week."

-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

"Over dinner, we mostly talk about Henry being gone a year. I tell her what someone told me in Italy: that grief is fruitful because it gives perspective and a sense of scale. Winnie says that's bollo…"

-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

"She takes a cautious approach to toasting bread. She does it by degrees, nervous of burning it. But the trouble is, by popping it up and down five times to check on its progress, she provides herself…"

-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

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30. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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21 Top memoir books like Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead

Transform Your Habits

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Ready For Absolutely Nothing

Susannah Constantine

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

Hadley Freeman

3.92

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9 Top audiobook books like Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri

Transform Your Habits

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Trick

Domenico Starnone

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Tremor

Teju Cole

3.69

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