13 Top nonfiction books like On the Roof: New York in Quarantine by Josh Katz

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On the Roof: New York in Quarantine

By: Josh Katz

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

This view of a life-altering moment in our history―captured from one photographer’s Brooklyn roofto…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in On the Roof: New York in Quarantine by Josh Katz , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

By: Gary John Bishop

3.84

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever felt like a hamster on a wheel, furiously churning your way through life but somehow … read more

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  • nonfiction
"You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing."

-Gary John Bishop, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

"There aren't any roadsigns when you're trekking through uncharted territory. It's all discovery and exploration."

-Gary John Bishop, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

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2. Dear Miss Sweetie

By: Stacey Lee

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Putnam has bought a YA historical novel from Stacey Lee. Dear Miss Sweetie focuses on a Chinese tee… read more

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3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)

By: Robin Sloan

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and… read more

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4. The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more

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"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

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5. Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two socce… read more

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"Lesbian is important to me," Phoebe says. "The world likes to act like it's a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn't. I want other girls like me to know it's a beauti…"

-Meryl Wilsner, Cleat Cute

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6. The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.84

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming … read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Run: Book One

By: John Lewis

4.31

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award–winning team behind March comes the f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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9. Ain't Burned All the Bright

By: Jason Reynolds

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more

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"What is life in a house underwater?"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

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10. Mooncakes

By: Suzanne Walker

3.83

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your a… read more

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11. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

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12. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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13. Lore Olympus: Volume Three (Lore Olympus, #3)

By: Rachel Smythe

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Witness what the gods do after dark in the third volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining o… read more

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14. Small Game

By: Blair Braverman

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers s… read more

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15. Chef's Kiss

By: Jarrett Melendez

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something... anything... related to his pa… read more

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16. Everything Is OK

By: Debbie Tung

4.31

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant col… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Fiancée Farce

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a s… read more

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18. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

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19. Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

By: Nathan W. Pyle

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and pr… read more

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"Where is your pain? In my emotions. I don't understand. No one ever does."

-Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

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20. Some Girls Do

By: Jennifer Dugan

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In this YA contemporary queer romance from the author of Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star fal… read more

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"You're just really full of surprises." And yeah. I kind of like the sound of that"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy."

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

"[...] but activism isn't something that happens in just one way or in just one place. There will always be more battles, and beating yourself up about not being able to do it all, all at once, doesn'…"

-Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

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21. Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women

By: Sarah Bargiela

3.82

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Autism in women and girls is still not widely understood, and is often misrepresented or even overl… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

By: Sanjay Gupta

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind fr… read more

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"For example, what should you do when the person seems stuck on repeating a word, activity, or sentence over and over again? Repetition is common in the disease's later stages. The person is searching…"

-Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

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23. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Shiver

By: Allie Reynolds

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

They don't know what I did. And I intend to keep it that way. How far would you go to win? Hyper… read more

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"...he hasn't spent his whole life playing catch-up. He was born in the lead. I don't have that luxury. I swallow hard. "You wouldn't get it. You're the older one."

-Allie Reynolds, Shiver

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25. Things Past Telling

By: Sheila Williams

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Erne… read more

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26. Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition

By: Julia Kaye

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A highly personal collection documenting the early months of artist Julia Kaye’s gender transition.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Digital Photography For Dummies

By: Julie Adair King

3.68

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Isn't that digital camera so cool? There must be a hundred things it will do that you haven't reall… read more

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  • photography
  • nonfiction
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28. On the Roof: New York in Quarantine

By: Josh Katz

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

This view of a life-altering moment in our history―captured from one photographer’s Brooklyn roofto… read more

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  • photography
  • nonfiction

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