13 Best biography memoir books like Orphan Bachelors by Fae Myenne Ng

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Orphan Bachelors

By: Fae Myenne Ng

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s…

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1. Wild Mountain Thyme

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.90

Format: 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more

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"I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover."

-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

"For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand."

-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

"I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent."

-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

"He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will."

-Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

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2. Sleeping Tiger

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the h… read more

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3. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

By: Kao Kalia Yang

3.84

Format: 352 pages,

In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn j… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

5. Eat A Bowl Of Tea

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A compelling story of life in the Chinese-American community of New York City. The pages of this no… read more

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6. Where the Line Bleeds

By: Jesmyn Ward

2.88

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

Set in a rural town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Where the Line Bleedstells the story of fraterna… read more

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7. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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8. Mecca

By: Susan Straight

3.86

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwi… read more

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9. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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10. Afterparties

By: Anthony Veasna So

3.95

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more

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"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

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11. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

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12. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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13. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Philip Gefter

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbrea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

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16. My Remarkable Journey

By: Katherine G. Johnson

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Time After Time

By: Lisa Grunwald

3.74

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, s… read more

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"Infatuation was weather - love was climate."

-Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures."

-Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

"Manhattanhenge was a reminder that there was power, order, and beauty in the natural world as well."

-Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

"But patience, real patience, meant more than simply waiting. Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did."

-Lisa Grunwald, Time After Time

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18. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

By: Calvin Trillin

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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22. Through the Groves: A Memoir

By: Anne Hull

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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23. All the World Beside

By: Garrard Conley

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England … read more

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24. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

By: Ava Chin

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"

-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

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26. My Name Is Iris

By: Brando Skyhorse

3.37

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more

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27. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

By: Jane Wong

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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28. Orphan Bachelors

By: Fae Myenne Ng

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china
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29. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

By: Fred C. Trump

4.07

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

By: Amorina Kingdon

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

By: William J. Barber II

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An explosive work with far-ranging historical implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the… read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.01

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