14 must-read nonfiction books like A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor by Rena Lipiner Katz

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A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

By: Rena Lipiner Katz

4.28

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Rena Lipiner Katz grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust believing that the price of her parents’ s…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor by Rena Lipiner Katz , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Daughters of Zion: A Family's Conversion to Polygamy

By: Kim Taylor

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A memoir of misguided faith, unholy violence, and spiritual awakening. An odyssey of mayhem, murder… read more

Similar categories in Kim Taylor's Daughters of Zion: A Family's Conversion to Polygamy book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Mother

By: Maxim Gorky

3.97

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayis… read more

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"in music one can hear everything."

-Maxim Gorky, Mother

"Başımıza ne geliyorsa, korktuğumuz için geliyor,"

-Maxim Gorky, Mother

"ى يصبح لدينا أمهات يرسلن أبناءهن إلى الموت وهن يبتسمن؟"

-Maxim Gorky, Mother

"قد خلق الإنسان على صورة الله و مثاله و إليكم ما يفعلون به"

-Maxim Gorky, Mother

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3. After Auschwitz

By: Eva Schloss

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depende… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • holocaust

4. Lusia's Long Journey Home: A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust

By: None

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The summer of 1939 was the last summer in Lucy Lipiner's childhood. On September 1, when she was ju… read more

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5. The Woman Beyond the Sea

By: Sarit Yishai-Levi

3.98

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

A mesmerizing novel about three generations of women who have lost each other—and the quest to weav… read more

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  • jewish
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6. 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 Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

Similar categories in Anne Berest's The Postcard book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • holocaust
  • jewish
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

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8. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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9. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

By: Kati Marton

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"

-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

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10. Remote Control

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.85

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

The new book by Nebula and Hugo Award-winner, Nnedi Okorafor."She’s the adopted daughter of the Ang… read more

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11. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

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"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

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12. Woke Up Like This

By: Amy Lea

4.03

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

For two high school seniors, it’s seventeen going on thirty—overnight—in a magical romantic comedy … read more

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13. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Graver's Kantika book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • jewish
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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14. Only the Brave

By: Danielle Steel

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Steel's Only the Brave book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • holocaust
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15. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training

By: Adam Stern

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more

Similar categories in Adam Stern's Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. A Feather on the Water

By: Lindsay Jayne Ashford

4.35

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

For three women in postwar Germany, 1945 is a time of hope—lost and found—in this powerful novel by… read more

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  • holocaust
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17. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Dead Witch on a Bridge (Sonoma Witches, #1)

By: Gretchen Galway

4.17

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a new paranormal mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Gretchen Galway. Is… read more

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19. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

By: Mira Jacob

4.46

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more

Similar categories in Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

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20. The Thread Collectors

By: Shaunna J. Edwards

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroid… read more

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  • jewish
"As everyone around her knew, there were so many ways to not be free."

-Shaunna J. Edwards, The Thread Collectors

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21. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

By: Judy Batalion

4.07

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major… read more

Similar categories in Judy Batalion's The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos book and Rena Lipiner Katz's A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • jewish
"The Nazis were particularly brutal with children, who represented the Jewish future. Boys and girls who were not useful for slave labor were some of the first Jews to be killed."

-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

"An old Jewish joke went - A man asks whether his town is now in Soviet or Polish territory. He's told, "This year we're in Poland." "Thank goodness!", the man exclaims. "I simply could not take anoth…"

-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

Cover of I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham

22. I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

By: Stephanie Grisham

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. The Bird Hotel

By: Joyce Maynard

4.30

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.   After… read more

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"A person can start off fresh in this place,"

-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

"I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of th…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

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24. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • holocaust
  • jewish
Cover of Gossip Ghost (Undertown Paranormal Mysteries, #1) by Tabatha Gray

25. Gossip Ghost (Undertown Paranormal Mysteries, #1)

By: Tabatha Gray

4.32

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Emma Day does NOT believe in ghosts. She does NOT have mystic powers. And she does NOT chase killer… read more

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26. The Prison Minyan

By: Jonathan Stone

4.31

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatt… read more

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  • jewish
Cover of Inside the Robe: A Judge's Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America by Katherine Mader

27. Inside the Robe: A Judge's Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America

By: Katherine Mader

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wondered what a judge is really thinking? To most people, judges are mysterious creat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. The Silent Ones (Chrissy Livingston, #3)

By: Linda Coles

4.09

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

An abandoned child. A missing couple. A village full of secrets. When a couple holidaying in the… read more

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29. A Life Inherited: Unraveling the Trauma of a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor

By: Rena Lipiner Katz

4.28

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Rena Lipiner Katz grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust believing that the price of her parents’ s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • holocaust
  • jewish
Cover of Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump

30. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

By: Mary L. Trump

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. The Life of Mikey

By: Michael K. Willis

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Michael “Mikey” K. Willis spent his most impressionable years in southern Appalachia. In his eye-op… read more

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3.77

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