10 Top biography memoir books like Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson

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Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

By: Jeffrey H. Jackson

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken b…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)

By: Donna Leon

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Death in a Strange CountryCommissario Guido Brunetti confronts a grisly sight when the body of a… read more

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2. A Test of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #1)

By: Charles Todd

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1919, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge remains haunted by World War I, where he was forced t… read more

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3. R is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone, #18)

By: Sue Grafton

3.40

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was a… read more

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4. The Diplomat's Daughter

By: Karin Tanabe

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kat… read more

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5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

By: Anita Loos

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lor… read more

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6. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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7. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • historical
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8. The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

By: N.D. Stevenson

4.02

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From N.D. Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivati… read more

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  • biography
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Ï'm learning to put away the diamond exterior and let people get close again. To be good up close instead of from a distance. I'm letting myself be happy."

-N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

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9. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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  • art
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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10. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • nonfiction
  • history
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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11. The Heavens

By: Sandra Newman

3.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York, 2000. Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, … read more

Similar categories in Sandra Newman's The Heavens book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • historical
"It was as if they had never been apart."

-Sandra Newman, The Heavens

"She could hide in this small, dull life."

-Sandra Newman, The Heavens

"But this was reality, occluded and delicate."

-Sandra Newman, The Heavens

"It was a white pandemonium with the wrong past."

-Sandra Newman, The Heavens

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12. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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13. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

By: Mallory O'Meara

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first… read more

Similar categories in Mallory O'Meara's The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Having a new tattoo really sucks,"

-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

"To the privileged, equality feels like oppression"

-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

"One hundred percent of the top American films of 1954, the year Creature from the Black Lagoon was released, were directed by men. Ninety-six percent of the top American films for 2016, the year I st…"

-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

"Milicent Patrick’s final resting place is in every single Creature from the Black Lagoon T-shirt, every Metaluna Mutant toy, every VHS tape of Fantasia, every DVD of The Shape of Water. It’s on the d…"

-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

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14. The Sound of Light

By: Sarah Sundin

4.34

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Sundin's The Sound of Light book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • world war ii
  • historical
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15. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

By: Virginia Woolf

4.46

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I miss you even more than I could have believed ;and I was prepared to miss you a good deal"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in …"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into wo…"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

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17. Mother Daughter Traitor Spy

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A mother and daughter find the courage to go undercover after stumbling upon a Nazi cell in Los Ang… read more

Similar categories in Susan Elia MacNeal's Mother Daughter Traitor Spy book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
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18. Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History

By: Cody Cassidy

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented… read more

Similar categories in Cody Cassidy's Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Cradles of the Reich

By: Jennifer Coburn

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called mast… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Coburn's Cradles of the Reich book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
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20. The House of Lincoln

By: Nancy Horan

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with The Ho… read more

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  • historical
"Some day she [Ana Ferreira Evans] would write what she had learned about love in her widowhood. Love needs a place to go. Your heart doesn't stop making it when you lose the single adored person of y…"

-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln

"She [Ana Ferreira Evans] remembered a remark [Mrs.] Alsop had once made. Some people are willfully ignorant. They aren't stupid--they simply choose to be oblivious. That way they aren't responsible f…"

-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln

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21. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

Similar categories in Emily Howes's The Painter's Daughters book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • art
  • historical
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22. The Paris Seamstress

By: Natasha Lester

4.10

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

How much will a young Parisian seamstress sacrifice to make her mark in the male-dominated world of… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
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23. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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24. The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

By: Elizabeth White

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions"

-Elizabeth White, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

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25. The Perfume Thief

By: Timothy Schaffert

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A Gentleman in Moscow meets Moulin Rouge in this stylish, sexy page-turner about Clementine, a quee… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • lgbt
"I like to imagine the war will end soon, and people who've lost their homes will return to Paris, to stroll through Greenspoon's. This one, they'll say, touching the black scar on the piano lid from …"

-Timothy Schaffert, The Perfume Thief

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26. The Princess Spy

By: Larry Loftis

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she woul… read more

Similar categories in Larry Loftis's The Princess Spy book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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27. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

By: Gwen Strauss

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine… read more

Similar categories in Gwen Strauss's The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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28. American Seoul

By: Helena Rho

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho w… read more

Similar categories in Helena Rho's American Seoul book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma by Ingrid Clayton

29. Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma

By: Ingrid Clayton

4.70

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

I didn't have bruises. She never left him. He didn't actually rape me. Maybe I wasn't worth b… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Clayton's Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp by Simon  Parkin

30. The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp

By: Simon Parkin

3.95

Format: 432 pages, ebook

The remarkable untold story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arreste… read more

Similar categories in Simon Parkin's The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson

31. Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

By: Jeffrey H. Jackson

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken b… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis book and Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer

12 Top history books like Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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Joy Harjo

4.28

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Mallory O'Meara

3.98

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4.57

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Antonia Hylton

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Uché Blackstock

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