6 Best biography memoir books like Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men by Audrey Murray

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Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men

By: Audrey Murray

3.84

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, …

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1. The Dud Avocado

By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more

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2. 8-Bit Christmas

By: None

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

It's 1980-something and all nine-year-old Jake Doyle wants for Christmas is a Nintendo Entertainmen… read more

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3. Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more

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4. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures)

By: Robyn Davidson

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 m… read more

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5. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

By: Erika Fatland

4.28

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more

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  • russia
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

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6. In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

By: Tom Vitale

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction** Anthony Bourdain's long time director and … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

By: Rebecca Renner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

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  • humor
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10. The Library Book

By: Susan Orlean

3.89

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

Cover of Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews Edwards

11. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

By: Julie Andrews Edwards

3.88

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"All my life I have struggled with making decisions—which I blame on being a true Libra—"

-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

"I know that I am—all that I am. And all that I am is full and ripe. All that I am is standing still, waiting and watching and bursting with life. Holding the straining seams of my skin, my passion an…"

-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

"Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After …"

-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

"Dancers can look at a mirror, a writer can look at a page, and a painter can look at a canvas and see their work reflected back at them. But singers can only hear and feel what they are doing. After …"

-Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

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12. Borrow My Heart

By: Kasie West

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friend for being catfished, she jumps… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

By: Gracie Gold

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard

By: Natasha Lester

4.12

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

Three generations. One chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty fin… read more

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  • audiobook
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16. Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road

By: Kate Harris

3.88

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps y… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I’m not sure where I go when I spin wheels for hours on end like that, except into the rapture of doing nothing deeply—although ‘nothing,’ in this case, involves a tantrum of pedal strokes on a burde…"

-Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road

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17. A Guide to Midwestern Conversation

By: Taylor Kay Phillips

3.77

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn (and love) the language of the landlocked in this bitingly funny illustrated guide to the com… read more

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  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang

18. Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods

By: Amelia Pang

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bella Figura: How to Live, Love, and Eat the Italian Way by Kamin Mohammadi

19. Bella Figura: How to Live, Love, and Eat the Italian Way

By: Kamin Mohammadi

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One woman's story of finding beauty, and herself--and a practical guide to living a better life, th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men by Audrey Murray

20. Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men

By: Audrey Murray

3.84

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, … read more

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  • russia
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • ukraine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Flirting with Disaster: True Travel Tales of Fear, Failure, and Faith by Angie Orth

21. Flirting with Disaster: True Travel Tales of Fear, Failure, and Faith

By: Angie Orth

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Join travel blogger Angie Orth on a journey of self-discovery as she empowers readers to buck expec… read more

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  • travel
  • memoir

15 must-read audiobook books like Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men by Audrey Murray

Transform Your Habits

Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

Erika Fatland

4.28

Transform Your Habits

In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

Tom Vitale

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Rebecca Renner

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

Chris Broad

4.18

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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

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

Annabelle Tometich

4.30

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