14 Top memoir books like Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant by Michael Vatikiotis

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Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By: Michael Vatikiotis

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebear…

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1. Birthday Letters

By: Ted Hughes

3.90

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"What happened casually remains -"

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"What happens in the heart simply happens."

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?"

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"Like a newer or much older religion In me alone, to be carried Everywhere with me -- deeper catacombs, And with a stronger God."

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

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2. Mayhem: A Memoir

By: Sigrid Rausing

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. In the summer of 2012 a wom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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4. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

By: Eugene Rogan

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nati… read more

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5. A Realm Divided: England in 1215

By: Dan Jones

3.93

Format: 300 pages,

1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more

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6. Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

By: Nigel Slater

3.69

Format: 496 pages,

'My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance acr… read more

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7. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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8. Love in a Cold Climate

By: Nancy Mitford

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more

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9. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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10. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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11. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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13. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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14. Ready For Absolutely Nothing

By: Susannah Constantine

3.91

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

'A rollicking ride . . . What a life' SUNDAY TIMESEssential reading for anyone who secretly just wa… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Constantine's Ready For Absolutely Nothing book and Michael Vatikiotis's Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Tomb of Sand

By: Geetanjali Shree

3.70

Format: 739 pages, Paperback

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more

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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

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16. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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18. Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews

4.04

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more

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"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"

-Miriam Toews, Fight Night

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19. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

By: Hadley Freeman

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"

-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

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20. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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22. The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

By: Richard Fidler

4.11

Format: 448 pages, ebook

A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7) by Marian Keyes

23. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

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24. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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25. Høyt: En reise i Himalaya

By: Erika Fatland

4.34

Format: 634 pages, Hardcover

Bestselgende forfatter Erika Fatland med ny, storslått reiseskildring: fra Himalaya. Erika Fatl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen by Erika Fatland

26. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen

By: Erika Fatland

4.40

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more

Similar categories in Erika Fatland's Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen book and Michael Vatikiotis's Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer

27. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

By: Marc David Baer

3.95

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond by John Lyons

29. Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond

By: John Lyons

4.34

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Lyons explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences - his son's school, his wife'… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War by Giles Milton

30. The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War

By: Giles Milton

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By: Michael Vatikiotis

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebear… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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