8 must-read nonfiction books like How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma Qureshi

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How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

By: Huma Qureshi

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"This beautiful, romantic memoir grabs you from the first page and won't let you go. Told with hear…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma Qureshi , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. The Blue Between Sky and Water

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of… read more

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2. Jaded

By: Ela Lee

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more

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  • adult
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"

-Ela Lee, Jaded

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3. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

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  • adult
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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4. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • adult
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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5. Conversations on Love

By: Natasha Lunn

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Lunn's Conversations on Love book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • relationships
  • love
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

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6. Walking on the Ceiling

By: Aysegül Savas

3.50

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

"[Savaş] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation … read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's Walking on the Ceiling book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • cultural
"There are many ways of hurting without words. It is silence that shapes us."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"I don't think you should try and teach anyone how to talk about their family," I said. "It's arrogant."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"Stories are reckless things, blind to everything but their own shape. When you tell a story, you set out to leave so much behind."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"Perhaps I'd felt all along, even when I lived with him, that I was passing the time, that my life hinged on the single moment when I'd learn that my mother was dying. Then I would set everything asid…"

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

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7. The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more

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  • adult
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8. Talking at Night

By: Claire Daverley

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more

Similar categories in Claire Daverley's Talking at Night book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • adult
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9. Good Intentions

By: Kasim Ali

3.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Big Sick meets Nick Hornby in Kasim Ali's debut Good Intentions, a novel about a young man who … read more

Similar categories in Kasim Ali's Good Intentions book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • adult
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10. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

By: Michiko Aoyama

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more

Similar categories in Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • adult
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11. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

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"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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12. Meeting Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم

By: Omar Suleiman

4.85

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Through 30 beautifully detailed chapters with narrations from companions, take a journey from only … read more

Similar categories in Omar Suleiman's Meeting Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • islam
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13. Are You Enjoying?

By: Mira Sethi

3.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original sto… read more

Similar categories in Mira Sethi's Are You Enjoying? book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • cultural
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14. Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5)

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, t… read more

Similar categories in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5) book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • adult
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15. Sunny

By: Sukh Ojla

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for... Sunny is the queen of l… read more

Similar categories in Sukh Ojla's Sunny book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • relationships
  • adult
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16. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • adult
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17. Oh, Sister

By: Jodie Chapman

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Meet Isobel, Jen and Zelda.Three women whose bodies and minds are not their own.They belong to the … read more

Similar categories in Jodie Chapman's Oh, Sister book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • religion
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18. The Family Tree

By: Sairish Hussain

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Your roots can always lead you home…Amjad cradles his baby daughter in the middle of the night. He … read more

Similar categories in Sairish Hussain's The Family Tree book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • cultural
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19. Yesterday I Was the Moon

By: Noor Unnahar

3.88

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

yesterday i was the moon is a collection of poetry by noor unnahar - it explores courage, self-love… read more

Similar categories in Noor Unnahar's Yesterday I Was the Moon book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • love
"Dreams live as long as the dreamers do"

-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

"Words; they are powerlessly powerful so use yours well."

-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

"in pieces yet at peace i am a building in a post war city"

-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

"Nothing teaches better than this trio the fears, the tears, the years."

-Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

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20. Experienced

By: Kate Young

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“A fizzing, lip-chewing, collar-bone biting, palm-sweating roller-coaster of a rom-com that is both… read more

Similar categories in Kate Young's Experienced book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • adult
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21. The Things We Left Unsaid

By: Emma Kennedy

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A LIFETIME OF SECRETS. A SUMMER OF NEW BEGINNINGS. _____________________ "So tender and thoughtful.… read more

Similar categories in Emma Kennedy's The Things We Left Unsaid book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
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22. Lucky: Learning to live again

By: Louise Thompson

4.39

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you learn to live again when you've danced with death?Louise’s road to having a baby was far… read more

Similar categories in Louise Thompson's Lucky: Learning to live again book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. White on White

By: Aysegül Savas

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and riveting novel about a woman who has come undone. A student mov… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's White on White book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • adult
"It wasn't often, she went on, that we could present ourselves to others, like a self-portrait. More often, we made portraits of the people around us, guessing at their features from occasional glimps…"

-Aysegül Savas, White on White

"Among the strongest memories of her past, she went on, was watching her mother in the kitchen. Agnes had tried revisiting this place in her painting - that blue kitchen of her childhood and adolescen…"

-Aysegül Savas, White on White

"The cousin was both real and fictional to her - an embodiment of all that Agnes wanted to be, fashioned from the particular details of her cousins tangible self. "We form ourselves through our double…"

-Aysegül Savas, White on White

"Perhaps she was just old-fashioned, Agnes said, but it seemed to her that severe introspection was a sure way to get lost in the smallest issues, to reduce one's life to a list of grievances. For her…"

-Aysegül Savas, White on White

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24. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
Cover of Sisi Tergelap Surga by Brian Khrisna

25. Sisi Tergelap Surga

By: Brian Khrisna

4.54

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Jakarta kerap menjadi pelabuhan bagi mereka yang datang membawa sekoper harapan. Mereka yang siap b… read more

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26. Broken. Not a halal love story

By: Fatima Bala

4.19

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

In this heartwrenching new novel from Award-winning author and poet, Fatima Bala, a connection send… read more

Similar categories in Fatima Bala's Broken. Not a halal love story book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • love
"Broken into fragments, Heartbeats - counted, limited. Yet, I’d give all the beats I have left to hear my name escape your lips again. Ours is a togetherness that honors the beauty of our solitude."

-Fatima Bala, Broken. Not a halal love story

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27. My Past Is a Foreign Country

By: Zeba Talkhani

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'A brave new voice that reaches out to us all' Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 27-ye… read more

Similar categories in Zeba Talkhani's My Past Is a Foreign Country book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • cultural
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. The Power of Du'a

By: Aliyah Umm Raiyaan

4.76

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

None read more

Similar categories in Aliyah Umm Raiyaan's The Power of Du'a book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • nonfiction
  • islam
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29. Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature

By: Durre Shahwar

4.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK in writing about their relationsh… read more

Similar categories in Durre Shahwar's Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • nonfiction
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30. How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

By: Huma Qureshi

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"This beautiful, romantic memoir grabs you from the first page and won't let you go. Told with hear… read more

Similar categories in Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • cultural
  • relationships
  • islam
  • memoir
  • love
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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31. Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

By: Marianne Cronin

4.62

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with … read more

Similar categories in Marianne Cronin's Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love book and Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

  • romance
  • adult

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