7 Top biography memoir books like Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase

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Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

By: Marilyn Chase

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.This is the…

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1. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. Arctic Dreams

By: Barry Lopez

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more

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3. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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4. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa L. Sevigny's Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • feminism
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • historical
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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6. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • historical
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7. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

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  • historical
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8. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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9. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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10. Musical Tables: Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • nonfiction
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11. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

Similar categories in Bianca Bosker's Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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12. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

Similar categories in Ramani Durvasula's It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • nonfiction
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

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13. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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14. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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15. The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem

By: Julie Phillips

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An NPR Best Book of 2022 An insightful, provocative, and witty exploration of the relationship bet… read more

Similar categories in Julie Phillips's The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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16. Fruiting Bodies: Stories

By: Kathryn Harlan

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more

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17. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

By: Mary Gabriel

4.52

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more

Similar categories in Mary Gabriel's Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. The Stonewall Reader

By: New York Public Library

4.36

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more

Similar categories in New York Public Library's The Stonewall Reader book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Defend the fairies!"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"This place was the “ART"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"I just want you all to know,"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

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19. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

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  • historical
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20. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

Similar categories in Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • nonfiction
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21. Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

By: Marilyn Chase

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.This is the… read more

Similar categories in Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa book and Marilyn Chase's Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • art and photography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • japan

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4.07

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4.16

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4.15

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