5 must-read education books like Soundbite: The Admissions Secret that Gets You Into College and Beyond by Sara Harberson

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Soundbite: The Admissions Secret that Gets You Into College and Beyond

By: Sara Harberson

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Crack the code to college admissions and help students craft the ultimate statement of self-identit…

If you liked the education plot in Soundbite: The Admissions Secret that Gets You Into College and Beyond by Sara Harberson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys

By: Billy Crystal

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns … read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi

By: Yotam Ottolenghi

4.50

Format: 182 pages,

Yotam Ottolenghi's Plentychanged the way people cook and eat. Its focus on vegetable dishes, with t… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Nothing

By: Janne Teller , Martin Aitken

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

When Pierre-Anthon realizes there is no meaning to life, the seventh-grader leaves his classroom, c… read more

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4. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By: Irin Carmon , Shana Knizhnik

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

You can't spell truth without Ruth. Only Ruth Bader Ginsburg can judge me. The Ruth will set you fr… read more

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5. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By: Loung Ung

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more

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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

6. People of the Book

By: Geraldine Brooks

3.00

Format: 96 pages,

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript throu… read more

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7. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Frank Bruni

3.51

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more

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8. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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9. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Gingerbread

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.05

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns… read more

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"She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside."

-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

"Handmade and heartfelt; Harriet wanted everything she did to be like this."

-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

"He was drinking Harriet's favourite, cold tea... not iced tea, but hot tea that had cooled. They liked him so much. They liked the way he talked when he talked and they liked his quiet when he was qu…"

-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

"More than friends, eh? More than friends... You know, my mother once told me that half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in this mistaken belief that there's any human relationsh…"

-Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

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11. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

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12. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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13. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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14. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

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15. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

By: Noah Whiteman

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. What Are You Going Through

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.74

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more

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"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

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17. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • education
Cover of The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make by Ron Lieber

18. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

By: Ron Lieber

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Revi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey J. Selingo

19. Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

By: Jeffrey J. Selingo

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Seling… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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20. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

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21. The Lindbergh Nanny

By: Mariah Fredericks

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Mariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notoriou… read more

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22. Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more

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"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

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23. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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24. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

By: Lisa Damour

4.47

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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25. Internment

By: Samira Ahmed

3.87

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old … read more

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"I wonder if all moms do this—try to make the terrifying seem mundane."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"In the quiet of the night, the heart knows the lies you told to survive."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"When you appease a man's conscience, you can take his freedom and he will thank you for it."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"It's not about danger. It's about fear. People are willing to trade their freedom, even for a false sense of protection."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

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26. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

By: Laura van den Berg

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Th… read more

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"She was always telling people to shut the fuck up . It was a term of endearment."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"...this is the problem with translating experience into fiction, the way certain truths read like lies."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"I was an attentive child; the world seemed like a bewildering place and I wanted all the knowledge I could come by."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

"Margot has always wanted to be the kind of person who can become too distraught to eat, but the truth is funerals make her hungry."

-Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

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27. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

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"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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28. The God of Endings

By: Jacqueline Holland

3.80

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more

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29. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

3.49

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more

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"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

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30. Soundbite: The Admissions Secret that Gets You Into College and Beyond

By: Sara Harberson

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Crack the code to college admissions and help students craft the ultimate statement of self-identit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
  • education
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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12 Best nonfiction books like Soundbite: The Admissions Secret that Gets You Into College and Beyond by Sara Harberson

Transform Your Habits

Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys

Billy Crystal

4.50

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Yotam Ottolenghi

4.50

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Loung Ung

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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The Golden Doves

Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

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The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel

4.25

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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The First Ladies

Marie Benedict

4.04

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