7 Top memoir books like The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families by Steven R. Hoffbeck

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The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

By: Steven R. Hoffbeck

3.73

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the Red River Heritage Award!The Haymakers is an epic—the hi…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families by Steven R. Hoffbeck , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Hercule Poirot, #38)

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser , David Suchet

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Audio CD

The unabridged tales in this Mystery Mastersaudiobook include all the ones in the print book first … read more

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2. The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

By: Andy Andrews

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A new story of common wisdom from the bestselling author of The Traveler's Gift. Orange Beach, Alab… read more

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3. Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)

By: Homer Hickam

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over … read more

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4. Blood Hollow (Cork O'Connor, #4)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after he… read more

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5. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

By: Katarina Bivald , Alice Menzies

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Once you let a book into your life, the most unexpected things can happen... Broken Wheel, Iowa, ha… read more

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6. The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd

By: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

3.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Capta… read more

Similar categories in Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos's The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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8. A Calamity of Souls

By: David Baldacci

4.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo … read more

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9. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

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10. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

By: J. Ryan Stradal

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more

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"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

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11. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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12. Desolation Mountain (Cork O'Connor, #17)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.14

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another “punch-to-the-gut blend… read more

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13. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

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14. The Lager Queen of Minnesota

By: J. Ryan Stradal

4.01

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.… read more

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"Young man"

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"Her mother told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them,"

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"Money allows people to survive their mistakes, she knew from having observed that phenomenon from a distance, and people like her were fucked."

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"She held the bottle to her lips and tilted, slightly. It tasted the like how she'd imagine dirt would taste if someone burned it on the grill. Nope she said, and handed the bottle back."

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

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15. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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16. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

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"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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17. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. The Long March Home

By: Marcus Brotherton

4.56

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best frien… read more

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19. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

By: James Rebanks

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more

Similar categories in James Rebanks's Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

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20. Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont

By: Robert Bilott

4.50

Format: 400 pages, ebook

“For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist.” —The New York Times Book Review … read more

Similar categories in Robert Bilott's Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

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"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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22. The Good Little Mermaid's Guide to Bedtime

By: Eija Sumner

4.09

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This little mermaid is too FIERCE and SCARY and FEROCIOUS to follow The Good Little Mermaid's Guide… read more

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23. About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son

By: Peggy Rowe

4.33

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before … read more

Similar categories in Peggy Rowe's About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. All the Glimmering Stars

By: Mark T. Sullivan

4.66

Format: 475 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in … read more

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25. Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home

By: Lauren Kessler

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

95 percent of the millions of American men and women who go to prison eventually get out. What happ… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Kessler's Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees

By: Meredith May

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling… read more

Similar categories in Meredith May's The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"On a deep level, the bees were teaching me the importance of taking care of myself. I could see, with my very own eyes, that defeat was not a natural way to be, even for insects."

-Meredith May, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees

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27. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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28. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

By: Steve Benen

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

None read more

Similar categories in Steve Benen's Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families by Steven R. Hoffbeck

29. The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

By: Steven R. Hoffbeck

3.73

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the Red River Heritage Award!The Haymakers is an epic—the hi… read more

Similar categories in Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families book and Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis by Hudda Ibrahim

30. From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis

By: Hudda Ibrahim

3.76

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis gives readers an invaluable insi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation

By: Brenda J. Child

3.93

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

9 Top history books like The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families by Steven R. Hoffbeck

Transform Your Habits

The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

3.29

Transform Your Habits

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

James Rebanks

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont

Robert Bilott

4.50

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8 Best fantasy books like The Good Little Mermaid's Guide to Bedtime by Eija Sumner

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Pretty Ugly

David Sedaris

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn

Shawn Harris

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Good Little Mermaid's Guide to Bedtime

Eija Sumner

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Spider in the Well

Jess Hannigan

4.09

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