18 Top memoir books like Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind by Julie Metz

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Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

By: Julie Metz

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this unforgettable and “essential feminist memoir of women’s lives” (Sarah Wildman, author of Pa…

If you liked the memoir plot in Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind by Julie Metz , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Tennis Partner

By: Abraham Verghese

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New Y… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Tennis Partner book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

2. Out to Canaan (Mitford Years, #4)

By: Jan Karon

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his talented and vivacious wife, Cynthia, are pondering the m… read more

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3. These High, Green Hills (Mitford Years, #3)

By: Jan Karon

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

For years, Mitford's sixtysomething rector has been happily married to his parish. Now he's also ma… read more

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4. A Light in the Window (Mitford Years, #2)

By: Jan Karon

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

- Readers will enjoy a story from the popular series-packaged bestseller! - Includes new Reader's G… read more

Similar categories in Jan Karon's A Light in the Window (Mitford Years, #2) book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

5. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope

By: None

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of t… read more

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6. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

By: Keri Blakinger

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more

Similar categories in Keri Blakinger's Corrections in Ink: A Memoir book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

4.25

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more

Similar categories in Oscar Hokeah's Calling for a Blanket Dance book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • audiobook
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

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10. We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration

By: Rachael Cerrotti

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2022 Maine Literary Award for Memoir ''Cerrotti brings her podcast of the same name t… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Cerrotti's We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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11. Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

By: Amanda Oliver

3.25

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Who are libraries for, how have they evolved, and why do they fill so many roles in our society tod… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Oliver's Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

By: Eva Jurczyk

3.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who p… read more

Similar categories in Eva Jurczyk's The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • audiobook
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13. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

Similar categories in Michael Finkel's The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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14. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Guest Book

By: Sarah Blake

3.61

Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition

An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout gener… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Blake's The Guest Book book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • audiobook
"And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child."

-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

"The morning had started. Someone else was out there, threading the day into cloth."

-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

"Ghost stories belong to the middle-aged, thought it's always the young who play the dramas."

-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

"Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks between."

-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

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17. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

Similar categories in Monica Potts's The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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18. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Zaleski's Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

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19. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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20. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

By: Mayukh Sen

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from a… read more

Similar categories in Mayukh Sen's Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Searching for Sylvie Lee

By: Jean Kwok

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sister… read more

Similar categories in Jean Kwok's Searching for Sylvie Lee book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • audiobook
"While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."

-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee

"Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth."

-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee

"Once you loved him, everything in your life fell into a before and after. Nothing would ever be the same."

-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee

"Helena's eyes glittered with naked intensity. I could not tell if they were filled with greed or a desperate need to be loved. I was not even sure if it made a difference: it came down to hunger. Per…"

-Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee

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23. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's A Very Private School: A Memoir book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Life is Messy

By: Matthew Kelly

3.77

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Life is messy. It isn't a color-within-the-lines exercise. It's a wild and outrageous invitation … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Kelly's Life is Messy book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • nonfiction
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25. 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

Similar categories in Susan Lieu's The Manicurist's Daughter book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Talented Mr. Varg (Detective Varg, #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.81

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a… read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's The Talented Mr. Varg (Detective Varg, #2) book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • audiobook
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27. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

By: Julie Klam

3.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her gran… read more

Similar categories in Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

Similar categories in Viet Thanh Nguyen's A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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29. Dont Touch My Hair

By: Emma Dabiri

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Guardian contributor BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes an essay collection exploring th… read more

Similar categories in Emma Dabiri's Dont Touch My Hair book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"The words we use to describe Afro hair do not relate to its texture and, judged by another's metric, it will always come up lacking. But we do not possess a list of words that reflect the qualities o…"

-Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair

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30. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

By: Kyo Maclear

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more

Similar categories in Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

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31. Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

By: Julie Metz

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this unforgettable and “essential feminist memoir of women’s lives” (Sarah Wildman, author of Pa… read more

Similar categories in Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind book and Julie Metz's Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook

24 Top audiobook books like Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind by Julie Metz

Transform Your Habits

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Keri Blakinger

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Stephanie Land

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Calling for a Blanket Dance

Oscar Hokeah

4.25

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21 Best fiction books like The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk

Transform Your Habits

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

Shauna Robinson

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

Hester Fox

3.36

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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