5 Top memoir books like The Story Game by Shze-Hui Tjoa

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The Story Game

By: Shze-Hui Tjoa

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cos…

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1. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

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2. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

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3. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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4. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

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5. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

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6. Green Fuse Burning

By: Tiffany Morris

3.88

Format: 107 pages, ebook

The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars. After the death … read more

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7. The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more

Similar categories in Jami Nakamura Lin's The Night Parade book and Shze-Hui Tjoa's The Story Game

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

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9. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. The Skunks

By: Fiona Warnick

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the… read more

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11. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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12. The Volcano Daughters

By: Gina María Balibrera

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more

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13. The House of Being

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.47

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer P… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"To have dominion over oneself, to be the sovereign of the nation of the self, one must be the writer of the story."

-Natasha Trethewey, The House of Being

"Writing is a way of creating order out of chaos, of taking charge of one's own story, being the sovereign of the self by pushing back against received knowledge and guarding the sanctity of the dwell…"

-Natasha Trethewey, The House of Being

"The act of writing is a way to create another world in language, a dwelling place for the psyche wherein the chaos of the external world is transformed, shaped into a made thing, and ordered. It is a…"

-Natasha Trethewey, The House of Being

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14. The Story Game

By: Shze-Hui Tjoa

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cos… read more

Similar categories in Shze-Hui Tjoa's The Story Game book and Shze-Hui Tjoa's The Story Game

  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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15. 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

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16. 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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17. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

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18. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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19. Passiontide

By: Monique Roffey

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deat… read more

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20. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

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21. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Shze-Hui Tjoa's The Story Game

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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The Night Parade

Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

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First Love: Essays on Friendship

Lilly Dancyger

4.07

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Natasha Trethewey

4.47

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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Julia Phillips

3.38

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