5 must-read history books like Red Sorrow by Nanchu

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Red Sorrow

By: Nanchu

4.19

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Describes how, after her parents were tortured and jailed, the author was forced to live on the str…

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1. Stolen Innocence

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Elissa Wall

3.94

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous f… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"With no other choice, I'd submitted to the will of our prophet and had married my nineteen-year-old first cousin."

-Lisa Pulitzer, Stolen Innocence

"In the end, He's the only reason that I made it. Sometimes that's the only thing we have. Whether you call it God, or hope, or faith -whatever word you use- the fact is, I couldn't have survived if I…"

-Lisa Pulitzer, Stolen Innocence

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2. Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home

By: Laura Ling , Lisa Ling

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. Family Tree

By: Susan Wiggs

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally co… read more

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4. The Golden Age

By: Joan London

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of lif… read more

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5. To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage

By: Anhua Gao

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

To the "Edge of the Sky" is the harrowing account of a remarkable woman's life in communist China-a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • china
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6. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir

By: Molly Brodak

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so ho… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. My Name Is Mahtob: The Story that Began the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter Continues

By: Mahtob Mahmoody

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the story of an extraordinary young woman's triumph over life-crushing trauma to build a li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival

By: Steve Jackson , Carmina Salcido , Steve Jackson

3.99

Format: 380 pages,

On April 14, 1989, Mexican immigrant Ramon Salcido--the author's father--went on a violent rampage … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

9. Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

By: Eric Manheimer

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakeningsand the TV series House,Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENT… read more

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10. A Dangerous Fortune

By: Ken Follett

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious … read more

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11. Three Sisters in Black

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages,

The bizarre true case of the 'Bathtub Tragedy". It started when a beautiful young woman named Ocey … read more

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12. The Book of Negroes

By: Lawrence Hill

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freed… read more

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13. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more

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14. Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

By: Nigel Cliff

3.77

Format: 230 pages, ebook

Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Va… read more

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15. American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps

By: None

4.11

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

In 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was… read more

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16. The Maid and the Mansion (The Maid and the Mansion #1)

By: Fiona Grace

3.79

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

In post-World War II England, a clever, young woman named Mary Adams finds herself thrust into a wo… read more

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17. The Museum of Failures

By: Thrity Umrigar

4.13

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more

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"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

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18. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

By: Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. The Way Life Should Be

By: William Dameron

3.67

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Two fathers embarking on the second half of their lives together. Two families in the midst of tran… read more

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21. The Bordeaux Book Club

By: Gillian Harvey

4.03

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to Fr… read more

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22. Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case

By: Caitlin Rother

3.67

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Caitlin Rother explores the mysterious death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, who w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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23. Heart of Steel

By: Kevin D. Miller

4.12

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early morning hours of September 13, 1920, a tragic murder takes place at the Pulchalski far… read more

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24. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

By: Helen Zia

4.47

Format: 503 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china
"In a world fractured by turmoil, there's much to learn from the profound human experience shared by the uprooted and displaced."

-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

"There are many lessons to be learned from refugees and migrants that can contribute to the understanding needed to navigate the global tectonics to bring people together, not drive them into flight."

-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

"Certainly, what was true for the refugees and exiles of Shanghai remains true for people fleeing catastrophe in contemporary times. Whether these migrants are driven from Syria, Myanmar, Bosnia, Suda…"

-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

"Where America's WWII generation is often lauded as its greatest, the Chinese contemporaries of that generation deny any claims to such superlatives. Especially when China's 5,000 year history spans h…"

-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

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25. Come, My Beloved

By: Pearl S. Buck

3.98

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

An American millionaire builds a Christian seminary in India, furthering his spiritual mission—and … read more

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  • china
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26. The Life I Stole

By: Nikola Scott

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1953. England is finally starting to recover from World War Two. Shop shelves are filling, the … read more

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27. No Room for Regret

By: Janeen Ann O'Connell

4.27

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

The movement of the ship seals his fate. He could be sailing anywhere, anytime, but he’s not, he’s … read more

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28. The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By: Ji Xianlin

4.02

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

A harrowing account of a scholar’s imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, this monumental… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china
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29. Red Sorrow

By: Nanchu

4.19

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Describes how, after her parents were tortured and jailed, the author was forced to live on the str… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • china
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30. The Moonflowers

By: Abigail Rose-Marie

4.39

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

In a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generati… read more

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31. If I Had Two Lives

By: Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This luminous debut novel follows a young woman from her childhood in Vietnam to her life as an imm… read more

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4.29

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Anhua Gao

3.21

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4.54

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Rachael English

4.17

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Deborah Carr

3.93

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Gill Thompson

4.39

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Emily Gunnis

4.24

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