7 best-selling memoir books like One Bright Moon by Andrew Kwong

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One Bright Moon

By: Andrew Kwong

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia And…

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1. Songs of a War Boy

By: Deng Thiak Adut , Ben Mckelvey

4.31

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, man of hope Deng Adut's family were… read more

Similar categories in Deng Thiak Adut's Songs of a War Boy book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • survival
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. A Year of Marvellous Ways

By: Sarah Winman

3.87

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Winman's A Year of Marvellous Ways book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • audiobook
"He dived into a bottomless pit of sleep"

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"You have to risk failure to become excellent."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

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3. Falling Leaves

By: Adeline Yen Mah

3.90

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest ch… read more

Similar categories in Adeline Yen Mah's Falling Leaves book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • asia
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china
"No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge."

-Adeline Yen Mah, Falling Leaves

"I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me."

-Adeline Yen Mah, Falling Leaves

"At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied."

-Adeline Yen Mah, Falling Leaves

"Alcenith Crawford (a divorced ophthalmologist): "We women doctors have un-happy marriages because in our minds we are the superstars of our families. Having survived the hardship of medical school we…"

-Adeline Yen Mah, Falling Leaves

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4. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

Similar categories in David Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover

5. Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

By: Tim S. Grover

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Paperback

For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats--Michael Jordan, Kobe … read more

Similar categories in Tim S. Grover's Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

6. The Definitive Book of Body Language

By: Allan Pease , Barbara Pease

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Available for the first time in the United States, this international bestseller reveals the secret… read more

Similar categories in Allan Pease's The Definitive Book of Body Language book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • nonfiction
"Smoking is an outward signal of inner turmoil or conflict and most smoking has less to do with nicotine addiction and more to do with the need for reassurance."

-Allan Pease, The Definitive Book of Body Language

Cover of The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! by M.J. DeMarco

7. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!

By: M.J. DeMarco

1.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Is the financial plan of mediocrity-a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as The Slowlane-your… read more

Similar categories in M.J. DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • nonfiction

8. The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir

By: Anh Do

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on th… read more

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9. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition

By: William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Ma… read more

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10. Working Class Boy

By: Jimmy Barnes

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

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11. Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the … read more

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12. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • audiobook
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13. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • audiobook
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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14. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • audiobook
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15. Return to Valetto

By: Dominic Smith

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting o… read more

Similar categories in Dominic Smith's Return to Valetto book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • audiobook
"Susan is the opposite,"

-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

"The bell ringer’s green walnut liqueur was famous in Valetto for its ability to strip paint and dignity."

-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

"I read aloud from my phone. “‘A cappuccino with low-quality milk … the only good things is the kindness of the bartenders…’"

-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

"Was this where my fascination for documented history came from? From a family so afraid of earthly erasure that they couldn’t discard the transcript of ordering two pounds of prosciutto on June 15, 1…"

-Dominic Smith, Return to Valetto

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16. Coconut

By: Florence Olajide

4.36

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the '50s and '60s, privately fostered by … read more

Similar categories in Florence Olajide's Coconut book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. After Story

By: Larissa Behrendt

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Yield by Tara June Winch

18. The Yield

By: Tara June Winch

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more

Similar categories in Tara June Winch's The Yield book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • audiobook
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

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19. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Accident book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • audiobook
Cover of The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert

20. The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison

By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more

Similar categories in Kylie Moore-Gilbert's The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang

21. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

By: Lydia Kang

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kang's Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal

22. Now You See Us

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a mu… read more

Similar categories in Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • asia
  • audiobook
Cover of What I Would Do to You by Georgia  Harper

23. What I Would Do to You

By: Georgia Harper

3.92

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

A near-future Australia. The death penalty is back. But if the victim’s family wants the perpetr… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of When We Were Young & Brave by Hazel Gaynor

24. When We Were Young & Brave

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.19

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . . The New York Times b… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Gaynor's When We Were Young & Brave book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • china
  • asia
  • audiobook
Cover of You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth

25. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Booth's You Called an Ambulance for What? book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth by Nick Maggiulli

26. Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth

By: Nick Maggiulli

4.13

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Everyone faces big questions when it comes to money: questions about saving, investing, and whether… read more

Similar categories in Nick Maggiulli's Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Good Wife of Bath

By: Karen Brooks

4.20

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary cla… read more

Similar categories in Karen Brooks's The Good Wife of Bath book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • audiobook
"I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion."

-Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath

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28. The Ghost Tattoo

By: Tony Bernard

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of… read more

Similar categories in Tony Bernard's The Ghost Tattoo book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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29. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

Similar categories in Alli Parker's At the Foot of the Cherry Tree book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • historical
  • audiobook
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30. We Didn't Think It Through

By: Gary Lonesborough

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the author of the award-winning The Boy from the Mish, comes a compelling coming-of-age YA nov… read more

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Cover of One Bright Moon by Andrew Kwong

31. One Bright Moon

By: Andrew Kwong

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia And… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon book and Andrew Kwong's One Bright Moon

  • survival
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • historical
  • asia
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook

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Deng Thiak Adut , Ben Mckelvey

4.31

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Sarah Winman

3.87

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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4.07

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