5 Best essays books like Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays by Daniel Saldaña París

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Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays

By: Daniel Saldaña París

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection explor…

"Tengo, más bien, una biblioteca fantasma: el recuerdo de los libros que podrían pertenecerme si los hubiera conservado."

-Daniel Saldaña París, Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays

"Tengo, más bien, una biblioteca fantasma: el recuerdo de los libros que podrían pertenecerme si los hubiera conservado."

-Daniel Saldaña París, Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays

If you liked the essays plot in Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays by Daniel Saldaña París , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Literatura infantil

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.25

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more

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  • essays
"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

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2. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

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"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

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3. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

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4. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

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5. 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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6. Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio

By: Andrea Chapela

4.26

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

En los futuros donde suceden estos diez relatos, una colección de dispositivos como pings, ansibles… read more

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"El silencio alrededor de ellas se quiebra. Se inundan, el agua empuja desde el vientre de la Ciudad, borbotea llenando todos los edificios, cubriendo las calles, colmando cada resquicio. ¿Puede Tlálo…"

-Andrea Chapela, Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio

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7. Cauterio

By: Lucía Lijtmaer

3.64

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Una novela redonda sobre la huida del dolor como forma de supervivencia y la rebelión ante los role… read more

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8. Optic Nerve

By: María Gainza

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life i… read more

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"el estilo es un medio para insistir sobre algo."

-María Gainza, Optic Nerve

"Mal administrada, la historia del arte puede ser letal como la estricnina."

-María Gainza, Optic Nerve

"Nos llamábamos igual, mi prima y yo. Recién ahora me doy cuenta de que nuestro nombre contiene al mar como un llamado, como una premonición."

-María Gainza, Optic Nerve

"Some details are lost to time, and in fact it’s for the best. To ever feel that you understand anything only means that your mind has turned rigid."

-María Gainza, Optic Nerve

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9. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

By: Annalee Newitz

3.99

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling Best-… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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12. Season of the Swamp

By: Yuri Herrera

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of… read more

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13. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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14. Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays

By: Daniel Saldaña París

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection explor… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Saldaña París's Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays book and Daniel Saldaña París's Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Tengo, más bien, una biblioteca fantasma: el recuerdo de los libros que podrían pertenecerme si los hubiera conservado."

-Daniel Saldaña París, Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays

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15. She Who Knows (She Who Knows #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

4.13

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Part science fiction, part fantasy, and entirely infused with West African culture and spirituality… read more

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16. Clean

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more

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"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean

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17. The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

By: Cynthia Gómez

4.22

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophob… read more

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18. Forest of Noise: Poems

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.73

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winn… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life

By: Sofia Samatar

4.41

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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21. Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America

By: Paola Ramos

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political traum… read more

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8 must-read nonfiction books like Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays by Daniel Saldaña París

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Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

Annalee Newitz

3.99

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Daniel Saldaña París

3.54

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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

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Rachel Cusk

3.70

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