There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
By: Casey Gerald
3.73
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES "Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most ur…
Want to Read $ 14.99"And the primary if not only difference between the liberals and the illiberals on this issue is that the American alt-right and France's National Front and Germany's National Democratic Party (I haven't been to England, so will leave them out of this) will try their best to kill you quickly or keep you out of the West altogether, whereas the liberals will write elaborate pamphlets about your condition while doing little to change it and even less to come in contact with it -- or with you, for that matter."-Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
"And the primary if not only difference between the liberals and the illiberals on this issue is that the American alt-right and France's National Front and Germany's National Democratic Party (I haven't been to England, so will leave them out of this) will try their best to kill you quickly or keep you out of the West altogether, whereas the liberals will write elaborate pamphlets about your condition while doing little to change it and even less to come in contact with it -- or with you, for that matter."-Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
If you liked the nonfiction plot in There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir by Casey Gerald , here is a list of 16 books like this:
1. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
By: Diane Wolkstein , Samuel Noah Kramer
4.14
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with vi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Diane Wolkstein's Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- nonfiction
"Inanna spoke: "What I tell you Let the singer weave into song. What I tell you, Let it flow from ear to mouth, Let it pass from old to young: My vulva, the horn, The Boat of Heaven, Is full of eagern…"-Diane Wolkstein, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
2. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
By: Alain de Botton
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced y… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Alain de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The great works of art have about them the quality of a reminder."-Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
"...what effacement of the individual ego, a life in science now entailed."-Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
"The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism."-Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
"We might define art as anything which pushes our thoughts in important yet neglected directions."-Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
3. Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
By: Joyce Johnson , Ann Douglas
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily ass… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Joyce Johnson's Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"There is a terrible poignancy in this room of gratifications deferred"."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
"We knew little of political realities. We had the illusion our own passions were enough. We felt that you could change everything just by being loud enough."-Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
4. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in Am… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kiese Laymon's How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- african american
- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
6. Crazy Brave
By: Joy Harjo
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Joy Harjo's Crazy Brave book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
7. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
8. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
By: Da’Shaun Harrison
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Da’Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- race
- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
9. Between Two Trailers
By: J. Dana Trent
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Kiese Laymon's Heavy book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
11. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
12. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
13. Stray City
By: Chelsey Johnson
3.78
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Chelsey Johnson's Stray City book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"All I knew that for all our art, for all our writing, for all our self-defense workshops, for all our banding together in our cities and oases, queer survival was still not guaranteed."-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"Maybe Flynn at thirty was still becoming, I realized. Maybe the Flynn I loved was on the way out. Or maybe the Flynn. I loved hadn't been around for some time now. It was easy to mistake proximity fo…"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"I seldom even thought of myself as woman or girl, just person. Just human. I only became girl or woman when men walked into the room or I walked into theirs, when that gaze hit me like a hot breath. …"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
14. No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
By: Darnell L. Moore
4.15
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought survival story of navigat… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Darnell L. Moore's No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- audiobook
- race
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- african american
- queer
15. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
By: Shane McCrae
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Shane McCrae's Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
16. Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
By: Leidy Klotz
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Blending behavioral science and design, Leidy Klotz's Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Leidy Klotz's Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
By: Casey Gerald
3.73
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES "Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most ur… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- audiobook
- race
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- queer
"And the primary if not only difference between the liberals and the illiberals on this issue is that the American alt-right and France's National Front and Germany's National Democratic Party (I have…"-Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
18. Tehrangeles
By: Porochista Khakpour
3.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- audiobook
- queer
19. Loose of Earth: A Memoir
By: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn
4.29
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family’s desperat… read more
Want to Read $ 23.81Similar categories in Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn's Loose of Earth: A Memoir book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
20. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Fred C. Trump's All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. "Still They Remember Me": Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1 (Volume 1) (Native Americans of the Northeast)
By: Carol A. Dana
4.14
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine's Penobscot Nation and was widely c… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Carol A. Dana's "Still They Remember Me": Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1 (Volume 1) (Native Americans of the Northeast) book and Casey Gerald's There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
- nonfiction
