10 Top memoir books like Reena: A Father's Story by Manjit Virk

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Reena: A Father's Story

By: Manjit Virk

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2009 George Ryga Award. This is the story of an average family that has ne…

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1. High on Arrival

By: Mackenzie Phillips

3.82

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

The eldest daughter of John Phillips and stepdaughter of Michelle Phillips, both lead singers of th… read more

Similar categories in Mackenzie Phillips's High on Arrival book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. Wonderful Tonight

By: Penny Junor , Pattie Boyd

3.16

Format: 288 pages,

A Q&A with Pattie Boyd, Author of Wonderful Tonight Why are you writing the book now? I have been a… read more

Similar categories in Penny Junor's Wonderful Tonight book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. A Long Way Home

By: Saroo Brierley

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made gl… read more

Similar categories in Saroo Brierley's A Long Way Home book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

5. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

By: Carole Radziwill

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

"What Remains" is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an… read more

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6. I'll See You Again

By: Janice Kaplan , None

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

In a powerful and intimate memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despai… read more

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7. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
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8. Brat: An '80s Story

By: Andrew McCarthy

3.61

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew McCarthy's Brat: An '80s Story book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Under the Bridge

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

*Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!* “A swift,… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Godfrey's Under the Bridge book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • canada
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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. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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12. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

By: Anna Malaika Tubbs

4.09

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates … read more

Similar categories in Anna Malaika Tubbs's The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
"Bertis, Louise, and Alberta, grew from children, to teenagers, to young women at a time when the birth of a nation characterized black men as scoundrels intent on brutalizing white women. When the pi…"

-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

"Their military experience made them more of a threat. Their pride was seen as something in need of control. Once again irrational white supremacist fears turned into extreme forms of brutality. Accor…"

-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

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13. Edge of Collapse (Edge of Collapse, #1)

By: Kyla Stone

4.17

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dead of winter, an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid. No electricity. No cars or phon… read more

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14. The Children on the Hill

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.86

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, which brilliantly e… read more

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15. Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom

By: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

3.54

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard discovered that her whole life was a lie. After eight-and-a-half years of inca… read more

Similar categories in Gypsy-Rose Blanchard's Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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16. No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System

By: Pete Earley

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deeply disturbing and human look at the American prison system’s practice of lifelong solitary co… read more

Similar categories in Pete Earley's No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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17. The Weight of Beautiful

By: Jackie Goldschneider

4.30

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey , bravely chronicles her decades-lo… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Goldschneider's The Weight of Beautiful book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Stolen

By: Rebecca Petty

4.48

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

“Andi’s missing,” said the frantic caller. A call that changed the trajectory of many lives.May 15,… read more

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19. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
Cover of Reena: A Father's Story by Manjit Virk

20. Reena: A Father's Story

By: Manjit Virk

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2009 George Ryga Award. This is the story of an average family that has ne… read more

Similar categories in Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • true crime
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21. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley

4.56

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Marie Presley's From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir book and Manjit Virk's Reena: A Father's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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