12 must-read memoir books like Vodka and Apple Juice by Jay Martin

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Vodka and Apple Juice

By: Jay Martin

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

When Jay’s husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the opportunity to escape her pre…

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1. Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)

By: Janet Evanovich

4.15

Format: 321 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day --… read more

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"I heard about them Rangers on TV,"

-Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)

"Remember, so swashing anyone into the trunk of your car!"

-Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)

"I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong."

-Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)

"My sex life is okay." "Yeah," Morelli said. "But sometimes it's fun to have a partner."

-Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)

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2. All You Can Ever Know

By: Nicole Chung

3.77

Format: 300 pages,

All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4)

By: Janet Evanovich

3.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is ba… read more

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4. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

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"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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6. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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7. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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8. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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9. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism book and Jay Martin's Vodka and Apple Juice

  • nonfiction
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10. Love & Virtue

By: Diana Reid

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporar… read more

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"Its feminism operated on the level of ‘Women in Medicine’ and ‘Women in Finance’ discussion panels, always conducted in a tone of revolutionary awe, as if any combination of women and profession were…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

"I just don't want to mediate my whole identity through social media.' Eve resumed the vigorous hair brushing. 'I think photos should be a stolen moment in time. Not this thing on your phone: this way…"

-Diana Reid, Love & Virtue

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11. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

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12. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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13. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

Similar categories in Niki Savva's Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise book and Jay Martin's Vodka and Apple Juice

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. Pearl

By: Siân Hughes

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more

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15. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)

By: A.J. Pearce

4.19

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more

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"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."

-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)

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16. Tastes Like War

By: Grace M. Cho

3.92

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. Psyche and Eros

By: Luna McNamara

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this utterly transporting reimagining of Greek mythology, the god of desire is cursed to fall fo… read more

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19. The Leftover Woman

By: Jean Kwok

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two ver… read more

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20. Infidelity and Other Affairs

By: Kate Legge

3.38

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you have to face up to your ow… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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22. A Chip Shop in Poznań

By: Ben Aitken

3.45

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIO Not many Brits move to Poland to … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • poland
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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23. Finding My Bella Vita: A story of family, food, fame and working out who you are

By: Pia Miranda

3.92

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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24. A Song to Drown Rivers

By: Ann Liang

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown … read more

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"Please,"

-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

"His eyes fluttered open, focused on me; it was how he had looked at me in all our time together, across the palace rivers, across the polished floors of his chambers, underneath the moonlight. no mat…"

-Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

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25. Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir

By: Charlotte Ree

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Ree's Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir book and Jay Martin's Vodka and Apple Juice

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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26. Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef

By: Julie Goodwin

4.57

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In m… read more

Similar categories in Julie Goodwin's Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef book and Jay Martin's Vodka and Apple Juice

  • biography
Cover of Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish - One Family's Riotous Year in the South of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh

27. Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish - One Family's Riotous Year in the South of France

By: Rachael Mogan McIntosh

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'b… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

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Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

29. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of In/Out: A Story of Sex and Religion by Steph Lentz

30. In/Out: A Story of Sex and Religion

By: Steph Lentz

3.72

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In January 2021, Steph Lentz was fired from her job as an English teacher at a Sydney Christian sch… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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31. Vodka and Apple Juice

By: Jay Martin

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

When Jay’s husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the opportunity to escape her pre… read more

Similar categories in Jay Martin's Vodka and Apple Juice book and Jay Martin's Vodka and Apple Juice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • poland
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

All You Can Ever Know

Nicole Chung

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

4.20

Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

Leigh Sales

3.88

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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Transform Your Habits

They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

4.23

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