24 Best nonfiction books like Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground by Uli Beutter Cohen

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Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

By: Uli Beutter Cohen

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed creator of Subway Book Review , Between the Lines gloriously takes to the underg…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground by Uli Beutter Cohen , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Chronic City

By: Jonathan Lethem

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with t… read more

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  • new york
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2. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Cover of Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger

3. 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 Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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  • books about books
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5. 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

Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"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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6. 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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7. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jessica Bruder

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here. From the beet fields of Nort… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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8. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

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  • new york
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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9. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

By: Nir Eyal

3.75

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interru… read more

Similar categories in Nir Eyal's Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
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10. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

By: Laura Dern

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As actors, Dern and Ladd have spent decades peeling back layers to re… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dern's Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Terminal Boredom: Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more

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"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."

-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

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12. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

By: Kyleigh Leddy

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more

Similar categories in Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says 'I once meant something to somebody."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

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13. Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

ECPA Christian Book of the YearChristianity Today Book of the YearForeword INDIES Book of the Year … read more

Similar categories in Tish Harrison Warren's Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
"Voor christenen is slaap een belichaamde manier om te belijden dat we erop vertrouwen dat het werk van God niet van ons afhangt."

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Bescherm wie blij zijn. In dit gebed erkennen we de kwetsbaarheid van vreugde. We vragen God om mensen die blij zijn te beschermen, om dat deel in ons te beschermen dat moedig genoeg is om te geloven…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Hoewel de statistieken laten zien dat hier in het Westen met name jonge mensen afdwalen naar ongeloof, deels vanwege het probleem van het kwaad, lijkt onze welvaart veel meer twijfel te veroorzaken d…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Het profetisch getuigenis van de kerk in een woedecultuur is om mensen te zijn die weten hoe we samen moeten huilen over de pijn en onrechtvaardigheid in de wereld en over de realiteit van onze eigen…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

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14. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

By: Sara Petersen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more

Similar categories in Sara Petersen's Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
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15. Token Black Girl

By: Danielle Prescod

3.92

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Racial identity, pop culture, and delusions of perfection collide in an eye-opening and refreshingl… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Prescod's Token Black Girl book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It’s the media’s job to accurately reflect the world we live in, not distort it."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"How much pain you can withstand should not be the barometer of how successful you can become."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"Women are taught that our bodies must be fixed and that, if given the power to do so, we should use it."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

"I was convinced I had to work for and earn affection… I would have to put in the time and effort to be loved."

-Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

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16. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

By: Maggie Smith

3.89

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

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17. Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more

Similar categories in Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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18. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

By: Delia Ephron

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more

Similar categories in Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • new york
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

By: Nell McShane Wulfhart

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The empowering true story of a group of spirited stewardesses who "stood up to huge corporations an… read more

Similar categories in Nell McShane Wulfhart's The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of I Feel Awful, Thanks by Lara Pickle

20. I Feel Awful, Thanks

By: Lara Pickle

4.04

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A lushly illustrated debut graphic novel that explores the hardfought journey of self-acceptance in… read more

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21. Cost of Living: Essays

By: Emily Maloney

3.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exa… read more

Similar categories in Emily Maloney's Cost of Living: Essays book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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22. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

By: Prachi Gupta

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more

Similar categories in Prachi Gupta's They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"

-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

Cover of One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank

23. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

By: Michael Frank

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

One of Wall Street Journal ’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Award… read more

Similar categories in Michael Frank's One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I do believe that as we travel through life we become a different person in every situation, or context, or phase."

-Michael Frank, One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

Cover of The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel de Visé

24. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

Similar categories in Daniel de Visé's The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
Cover of Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman

25. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided

By: Scott Eyman

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from … read more

Similar categories in Scott Eyman's Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Intimate City: Walking New York by Michael Kimmelman

26. The Intimate City: Walking New York

By: Michael Kimmelman

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“‘ The Intimate City ’ is a joyful miscellany of people seeing things in the urban landscape, the s… read more

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  • new york
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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27. When We Fell Apart

By: Soon Wiley

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together--or break them apart--as a … read more

Similar categories in Soon Wiley's When We Fell Apart book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

"The more I got to know here, the more impressed I was with her imperishable desire for something else. Never satisfied with how things were or how others thought they should be, she was always intere…"

-Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart

"The more I got to know her, the more impressed I was with her imperishable desire for something else. Never satisfied with how things were or how others thought they should be, she was always interes…"

-Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart

Cover of Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

28. Imagination: A Manifesto

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of strug… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Imagination: A Manifesto book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
Cover of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour

29. We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance

By: Linda Sarsour

4.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour shares her intimate coming-of-age story of how growing up Mus… read more

Similar categories in Linda Sarsour's We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead by Lisa Selin Davis

30. Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

By: Lisa Selin Davis

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Rules of Womanhood, the Lies We’re Told, and the Choices We Have   The notion of “housewife” ev… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Selin Davis's Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • nonfiction
Cover of Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground by Uli Beutter Cohen

31. Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

By: Uli Beutter Cohen

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed creator of Subway Book Review , Between the Lines gloriously takes to the underg… read more

Similar categories in Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground book and Uli Beutter Cohen's Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground

  • new york
  • memoir
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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • books about books

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Maggie Smith

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Crying in the Bathroom

Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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Emily Maloney

3.59

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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Third University Is Possible (Forerunners: Ideas First)

La Paperson

4.39

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Bettina L. Love

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Kelly Hayes

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