7 Best memoir books like Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey by Hermann Hesse

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Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey

By: Hermann Hesse

3.73

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Hermann Hesse's voyage to the East Indies, recorded in journal entries and other writings translate…

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1. One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander, #7)

By: Henning Mankell , Ebba Segerberg

4.11

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

It is Midsummer's Eve, three young friends gather in a wood. In the still-sunlit, Scandanavian dusk… read more

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"I can’t deal with angry people until after I’ve had my morning coffee."

-Henning Mankell, One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander, #7)

"Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence."

-Henning Mankell, One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander, #7)

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2. The Pearl Thief

By: Elizabeth Wein

3.73

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Before Verity…there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospi… read more

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"If you're scared, do something."

-Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

"How do you ever hold on to anybody?"

-Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

"I seem to be good at asking for trouble."

-Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

"Driving like a man is one of her few foibles."

-Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

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3. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays

4. Regarde les lumières mon amour

By: Annie Ernaux

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays

5. The Great Railway Bazaar

By: Paul Theroux

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

6. In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

By: Robert D. Kaplan

2.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global… read more

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7. Out of Africa

By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Out of Africais Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand… read more

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8. In Patagonia

By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare

3.67

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"

-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

9. The Garden of Evening Mists

By: Tan Twan Eng

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war… read more

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10. They Were Counted

By: Miklós Bánffy , Kathy Bánffy-Jelen , Patrick Thursfield

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Painting an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, this story is told throu… read more

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11. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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13. Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more

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  • travel
"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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14. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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15. 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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  • travel
  • 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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16. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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17. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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18. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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19. On Earth as It Is on Television

By: Emily Jane

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane’s novel of the sudde… read more

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20. On Java Road

By: Lawrence Osborne

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more

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21. Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey

By: Hermann Hesse

3.73

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Hermann Hesse's voyage to the East Indies, recorded in journal entries and other writings translate… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays

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