9 Best nonfiction books like Going Back by Munjed Al Muderis

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Going Back

By: Munjed Al Muderis

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In Munjed Al Muderis's bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fl…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Going Back by Munjed Al Muderis , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. Infidel

By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into interna… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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3. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

By: Henry Marsh

3.69

Format: 192 pages,

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. A Stolen Life

By: Jaycee Dugard

3.44

Format: 198 pages,

On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

By: Holly Ringland

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more

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6. A Long Way Home

By: Saroo Brierley

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made gl… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

7. We Were the Lucky Ones

By: Georgia Hunter

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separ… read more

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8. Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)

By: Lee Child

3.50

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Jack Reacher returns in Lee Child's new "rip-roaring thriller" ("Denver Rocky Mountain News"). This… read more

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9. The Murder Rule

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.67

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter s… read more

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"Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up."

-Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule

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10. Still Life

By: Sarah Winman

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more

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"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

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11. All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)

By: John Boyne

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for dec… read more

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12. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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13. Before You Knew My Name

By: Jacqueline Bublitz

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more

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"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

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14. Miss Benson's Beetle

By: Rachel Joyce

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more

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"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

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15. Lisa

By: Lisa Curry

4.25

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. The Last Of The Bonegilla Girls

By: Victoria Purman

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Unknown Binding

For readers of The Woolgrower's Companion and The Three Miss Allens… Their friendship transcends na… read more

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17. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

By: Erin Litteken

4.46

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Beekeeper of Aleppo. In the 1930s, Stalin… read more

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18. Sidelines

By: Karen Viggers

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A teenage sports game descends into a brawl after a controversial line call in a fast-paced contemp… read more

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19. The Land Before Avocado

By: Richard Glover

3.91

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Austral… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This

By: Lisa Wilkinson

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited autobiography from one of Australia's most popular, much-loved and enduring media … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. Going Back

By: Munjed Al Muderis

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In Munjed Al Muderis's bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fl… read more

Similar categories in Munjed Al Muderis's Going Back book and Munjed Al Muderis's Going Back

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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Sarah Krasnostein

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3.84

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3.69

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Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

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Ellen Marie Wiseman

4.24

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Diane C. McPhail

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