11 must-read history books like Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex Wagner

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Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

By: Alex Wagner

3.41

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A journalist travels the globe searching for answers to the mystery of her own ancestry, along the …

If you liked the history plot in Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex Wagner , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Mastodonia

By: Clifford D. Simak

3.71

Format: 233 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Italian-language edition of Simak's sci-fi classic "Mastodonia." # 762 in Mondadori's "Urania le An… read more

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2. A House for Mr Biswas

By: V.S. Naipaul

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more

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3. Lady Oracle

By: Margaret Atwood

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new s… read more

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4. Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

By: Manal Al-Sharif

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Hardcover

A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the… read more

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5. Dear Mr. You

By: Mary-Louise Parker

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An e… read more

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Cover of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

6. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly

7. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

By: Mary Louise Kelly

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"

-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

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8. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • audiobook
Cover of The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle    Tometich

9. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) by Laura Dern

10. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

By: Laura Dern

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As actors, Dern and Ladd have spent decades peeling back layers to re… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Worthy

By: Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

12. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.60

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Cover of ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD by Penn Holderness

13. ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

By: Penn Holderness

4.32

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Hi, friend! Welcome to the ADHD club. You're here because, like me, you've been diagnosed with a… read more

Similar categories in Penn Holderness's ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Thicker than Water: A Memoir by Kerry Washington

14. Thicker than Water: A Memoir

By: Kerry Washington

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Lost Wife

By: Susanna Moore

3.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Drawn partly from a true story, a searing, totally immersive novel about a devastating Native Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Susanna Moore's The Lost Wife book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • audiobook
Cover of Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman

16. Monkey Boy

By: Francisco Goldman

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of… read more

Similar categories in Francisco Goldman's Monkey Boy book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • race
  • audiobook
Cover of Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg

17. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

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18. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

By: Will Schwalbe

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

19. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

By: Anand Giridharadas

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

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20. 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 Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

21. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

22. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Cover of Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper

23. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

Cover of The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegel

25. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

By: Matt Siegel

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love. Is Italia… read more

Similar categories in Matt Siegel's The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

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

26. 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

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  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin

27. 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

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) by Tina  Nguyen

28. The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out)

By: Tina Nguyen

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, first-person account of the alt-right from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

29. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex  Wagner

30. Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

By: Alex Wagner

3.41

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A journalist travels the globe searching for answers to the mystery of her own ancestry, along the … read more

Similar categories in Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging book and Alex Wagner's Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  • audiobook
  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

31. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

Mary Louise Kelly

3.86

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The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

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4.30

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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