13 Top memoir books like Gentrifier: A Memoir by Anne Elizabeth Moore

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Gentrifier: A Memoir

By: Anne Elizabeth Moore

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black cit…

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1. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

By: Rachel Cusk

3.66

Format: 153 pages, Hardcover

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that follo… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"[I]t has struck me that along with all other losses, I might lose friendship, too. I am not equal anymore to the people that I know, and what is friendship but a celebration of equality?"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison."

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"In marriage you go away from other people, but at the end of marriage they come out to welcome you back. This is civilisation, she says. The worst thing that happened to you has brought out the best …"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

"What I lived as feminism were in fact the male values my parents, among others, well-meaningly bequeathed me—the cross-dressing values of my father, and the anti-feminine values of my mother. So I am…"

-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

2. The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

By: Sarah Schulman

4.04

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebel… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Schulman's The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir

3. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

By: Ewuare X. Osayande , Robert L. Allen , None , Paul Kivel , Andrea Smith , Dylan Rodríguez , Incite! Women of Color Against Violence , Ruth Wilson Gilmore , None , None , None , Alisa Bierria , None , None , Eric Tang , None , None , None , None , Tiffany Lethabo King , None

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

A $1.3 trillion industry, the US nonprofit sector is the world's seventh largest economy. From art … 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

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • essays
"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. 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

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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7. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Dearborn

By: Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more

Similar categories in Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • race
  • essays
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9. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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10. 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 Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
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11. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

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12. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

By: Priya Fielding-Singh

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healt… read more

Similar categories in Priya Fielding-Singh's How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Orange World and Other Stories

By: Karen Russell

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swampl… read more

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"People talk about heredity as if it’s linear and vertical. Dead people pass things “down"

-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

"March 1. DEAR BABY: I like the way you turn in half circles on the mattress, like a senile clock."

-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

"How true can this sensation of unity really be if you need to leave everyone you care about to get it."

-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

"I needed a darkness that would have killed the others. And they needed me to keep it a secret from them."

-Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

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14. Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

By: M. Nolan Gray

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing… read more

Similar categories in M. Nolan Gray's Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • politics
  • urban planning
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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16. Black Friend: Essays

By: Ziwe

4.30

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more

Similar categories in Ziwe's Black Friend: Essays book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."

-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays

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17. Erosion: Essays of Undoing

By: Terry Tempest Williams

4.24

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist … read more

Similar categories in Terry Tempest Williams's Erosion: Essays of Undoing book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Rather than anchoring our hope beyond the struggle, always projecting ahead, perhaps locating joy within the struggle through our full presence can be our essential gesture at this moment in time. To…"

-Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing

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18. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

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19. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

By: Jose Antonio Vargas

4.30

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more

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  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Home is not something I should have to earn."

-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."

-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."

-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"

-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

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20. 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 Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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21. The English Experience

By: Julie Schumacher

3.91

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he’s the only professor… read more

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22. The Loneliest Americans

By: Jay Caspian Kang

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The… read more

Similar categories in Jay Caspian Kang's The Loneliest Americans book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"These cultural generalizations, perhaps correctly, reduce the history of immigration to a binary. When immigrants come into this country, whether they join the labor force, like the Irish, Mexicans, …"

-Jay Caspian Kang, The Loneliest Americans

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23. Feminist City: A Field Guide

By: Leslie Kern

3.92

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Kern's Feminist City: A Field Guide book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • feminism
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

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24. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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25. Win Me Something

By: Kyle Lucia Wu

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post , Shondaland , NPR Books, … read more

Similar categories in Kyle Lucia Wu's Win Me Something book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • race
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26. On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

By: Daisy Pitkin

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Riveting and intimate. It is hard to imagine a more humanizing portrait of the American labor move… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Pitkin's On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Anger is powerful, it’s true, but care for one another is, too. And care for one another, unlike anger (or unlike anger for me), is continually renewable — it becomes both an engine for the fight and…"

-Daisy Pitkin, On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union

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27. Negative Space

By: Gillian Linden

3.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, an… read more

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28. Gentrifier: A Memoir

By: Anne Elizabeth Moore

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black cit… read more

Similar categories in Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • race
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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29. Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire

By: Tracy Clark-Flory

3.84

Format: None pages, None

A prominent sex journalist shares the confusing, funny, and sometimes painful moments that shaped h… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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30. Something About Her

By: Clementine Taylor

3.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and delicately crafted debut novel about two young women who become entangled in one an… read more

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31. The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate

By: Amy Brady

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflect… read more

Similar categories in Amy Brady's The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate book and Anne Elizabeth Moore's Gentrifier: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • essays

9 must-read history books like Gentrifier: A Memoir by Anne Elizabeth Moore

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Sarah Schulman

4.04

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Olivia Laing

4.07

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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

4.47

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

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Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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Suzette Mayr

3.46

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