21 Best biography books like Holler Rat: A Memoir by Anya Liftig

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Holler Rat: A Memoir

By: Anya Liftig

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a critically acclaimed performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking memoir…

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1. Even This I Get to Experience

By: Norman Lear

4.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written... An absolute treasure." --Book… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

2. Someone

By: Alice McDermott

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary life - its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confus… read more

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3. A Gift of Magic

By: Lois Duncan

3.00

Format: 112 pages,

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4. 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

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. 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

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more

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8. American Girls

By: Jessica Roy

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, deeply reported narrative about religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of … read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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10. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

By: Julia Lee

4.34

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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15. The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America

By: Vicki Sokolik

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Book of V.

By: Anna Solomon

3.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Anna Solomon's kaleidoscopic novel intertwines the lives of a Brooklyn mother in 2016, a senator’s … read more

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19. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

By: Shane McCrae

3.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"

-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

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20. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

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21. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir by Sara Glass

22. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. The House of Being

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.47

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer P… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"To have dominion over oneself, to be the sovereign of the nation of the self, one must be the writer of the story."

-Natasha Trethewey, The House of Being

"Writing is a way of creating order out of chaos, of taking charge of one's own story, being the sovereign of the self by pushing back against received knowledge and guarding the sanctity of the dwell…"

-Natasha Trethewey, The House of Being

"The act of writing is a way to create another world in language, a dwelling place for the psyche wherein the chaos of the external world is transformed, shaped into a made thing, and ordered. It is a…"

-Natasha Trethewey, The House of Being

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24. The Story Game

By: Shze-Hui Tjoa

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. Holler Rat: A Memoir

By: Anya Liftig

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a critically acclaimed performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking memoir… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir by Zoë Bossiere

27. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

By: Zoë Bossiere

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country

By: Rosie Schaap

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist, and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun:… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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29. Connie: A Memoir

By: Connie Chung

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In an industry dominated by white men, Connie Chung stood alone, the first and only Asian woman to … read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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30. When We Were Widows: A Novel

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.24

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

In this heartfelt story about finding love in loss, three widows are forced under the same roof, wh… read more

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4.28

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3.62

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4.10

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4.64

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