10 Top biography memoir books like Eat the Apple: A Memoir by Matt Young

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Eat the Apple: A Memoir

By: Matt Young

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Eat the Apple is a twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age …

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1. Berserk, Vol. 3 (Berserk, #3)

By: Kentaro Miura , Jason DeAngelis

4.55

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, finishes his desperate battle with the monstrous Count, cutting a… read more

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"You're going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again...soon."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 3 (Berserk, #3)

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2. Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2)

By: Kentaro Miura , Jason DeAngelis

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to… read more

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"Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 2 (Berserk, #2)

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3. Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

By: Anthony Swofford

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Swofford's Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Every war is different. Every war is the same."

-Anthony Swofford, Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

"It occured to me that we will never be young again."

-Anthony Swofford, Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

"My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness."

-Anthony Swofford, Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

"When you fail, you disgrace yourself and others. When you succeed, be proud and others will be proud for you."

-Anthony Swofford, Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

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4. Galápagos

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Galapagostakes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly b… read more

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5. Another Brooklyn

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her … read more

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  • adult
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6. Breakfast of Champions

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more

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7. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

By: Charles R. Cross

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure a… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

By: Ben Mezrich

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An exclusive blackjack club came up with a system to take the worldUs most sophisticated casinos fo… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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9. Terminal Lance: The White Donkey

By: Maximilian Uriarte

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The surreal journey of a United States Marine to and from Iraq. Written and Illustrated by Terminal… read more

Similar categories in Maximilian Uriarte's Terminal Lance: The White Donkey book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • military fiction
  • war

10. All My Puny Sorrows

By: Miriam Toews

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poigna… read more

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  • contemporary
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11. Redeployment

By: Phil Klay

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to unde… read more

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  • military fiction
  • war

12. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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13. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

Similar categories in Paul Fussell's With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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14. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • war
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

15. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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16. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

By: Liza Mundy

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girlsis the astonishing, untol… read more

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Cover of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

17. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

Similar categories in Tom O'Neill's Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
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18. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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19. Cold People

By: Tom Rob Smith

3.52

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for… read more

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  • adult
Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

20. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie  Land

21. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s by Gary Gulman

22. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s

By: Gary Gulman

4.14

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more

Similar categories in Gary Gulman's Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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23. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cunningham's Day book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • adult
  • contemporary
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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24. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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25. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

By: Robert Kolker

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed … read more

Similar categories in Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"One of the consequenses of surviving schizophrenia for fifty years is that sooner or later, the cure becomes as damaging as the disease"

-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

"[..] Schizophrenia simply can't be imposed or inflicted on someone who is not genitically predisposed to develope the condition (D. Rosenthal)"

-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

"[They] talked a lot about the particular way Mimi hade of silencing Lindsay. She wouldn't say "Shut up." It was more like "You think you've got troubles?" She attacked Lindsay's emotions by undermini…"

-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

"[This essential question about schizophrenia - does it run in families or emerge fully formed out of nowhere? - would consume theorists and therapists and biologists and, later, geneticists, for gene…"

-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

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26. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

Similar categories in Lee Lai's Stone Fruit book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton

27. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

By: Axton Betz-Hamilton

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An identity theft expert tells the story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and… read more

Similar categories in Axton Betz-Hamilton's The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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28. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

By: C.J. Hauser

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essa… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Hauser's The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"What were you told had to happen in a story for it to feel complete?"

-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

"The Story rules are coming from inside the house. And the house always wins."

-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

"How do we talk about the loss of a thing for which their is no word? The lack of a word implies that it was never anything. It was never real."

-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

"I'm starting to think that living a dramatic, story-worthy life and happiness are, at worst, mutually exclusive, and, at best, giving each other a run for their money."

-C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

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29. The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

By: David Pilling

4.07

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live i… read more

Similar categories in David Pilling's The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
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30. Eat the Apple: A Memoir

By: Matt Young

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Eat the Apple is a twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age … read more

Similar categories in Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir book and Matt Young's Eat the Apple: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • unfinished
  • military fiction
  • war
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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31. End of Active Service

By: Matt Young

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the “inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consis… read more

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  • adult

5 Top contemporary books like Eat the Apple: A Memoir by Matt Young

All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Day

Michael Cunningham

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Stone Fruit

Lee Lai

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

C.J. Hauser

4.10

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17 Top fiction books like All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

3.75

Transform Your Habits

El cielo de la selva

Elaine Vilar Madruga

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Como bestias

Violaine Bérot

4.30

Transform Your Habits

La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

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