11 Top memoir books like Sara Berman's Closet by Maira Kalman

Cover of Sara Berman's Closet by Maira Kalman

Sara Berman's Closet

By: Maira Kalman

4.53

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

2018 National Jewish Book Award Finalist Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles…

If you liked the memoir plot in Sara Berman's Closet by Maira Kalman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

By: David Sedaris , Ian Falconer

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed anim… read more

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2. 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
  • memoir

3. The Diary of a Nobody

By: George Grossmith , Weedon Grossmith

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and … read more

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4. You Are Having a Good Time

By: Amie Barrodale

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In You Are Having a Good Time, Amie Barrodale's collection of highly compressed and charged tales, … read more

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5. Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations

By: Maira Kalman , Claudia Gould , Ingrid Schaffner , None , None , None

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

From children's books to Germanyer covers, fashion to philosophical musings, this first retrospecti… read more

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6. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life

By: Samantha Irby

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in R… read more

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7. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By: Gertrude Stein

4.15

Format: None pages,

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklaswas written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobi… read more

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8. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • graphic novels
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9. Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson

4.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In thi… read more

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  • art
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10. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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11. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

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"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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12. Girl Juice

By: Benji Nate

3.95

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century Welcome to the Girl Juice … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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13. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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14. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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15. 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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16. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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17. Inciting Joy: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

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18. The Electricity of Every Living Thing

By: Katherine May

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."

-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing

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19. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

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20. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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21. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

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22. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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23. Julián Is a Mermaid

By: Jessica Love

4.51

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and… read more

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24. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

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25. Mall Goth

By: Kate Leth

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"

-Kate Leth, Mall Goth

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26. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image

By: Siobhan Gallagher

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journe… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun

27. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

By: Ada Calhoun

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

Cover of Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces by Jenny Erpenbeck

28. Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.94

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renow… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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29. American Utopia

By: David Byrne

3.48

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling aut… read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sara Berman's Closet by Maira Kalman

30. Sara Berman's Closet

By: Maira Kalman

4.53

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

2018 National Jewish Book Award Finalist Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles… read more

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  • new york
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • museums
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • fashion

13 Best nonfiction books like Sara Berman's Closet by Maira Kalman

Transform Your Habits

Upstream: Selected Essays

Mary Oliver

2.43

Transform Your Habits

I Must Be Dreaming

Roz Chast

3.65

Transform Your Habits

A Book of Days

Patti Smith

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Inciting Joy: Essays

Ross Gay

4.16

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14 Best nonfiction books like American Utopia by David Byrne

Transform Your Habits

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Lisa Darms , Johanna Fateman , Kathleen Hanna

4.38

Transform Your Habits

My Favorite Things

Maira Kalman

3.24

Transform Your Habits

The Principles of Uncertainty

Maira Kalman

4.25

Transform Your Habits

I Must Be Dreaming

Roz Chast

3.65

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