15 must-read nonfiction books like But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World by Claudia Marseille

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But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

By: Claudia Marseille

4.22

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing …

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Cover of Shouting Won't Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You by Katherine Bouton

1. Shouting Won't Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You

By: Katherine Bouton

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Bouton's Shouting Won't Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You book and Claudia Marseille's But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin

2. The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

By: Yuval Levin

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a … read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Cover of Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

4. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa L. Sevigny's Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon book and Claudia Marseille's But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

  • nonfiction
Cover of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

5. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Tree. Table. Book. by Lois Lowry

6. Tree. Table. Book.

By: Lois Lowry

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more

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Cover of Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston

7. 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

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Claudia Marseille's But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

8. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight by Shawn Cohen

9. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

By: Shawn Cohen

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more

Similar categories in Shawn Cohen's College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight book and Claudia Marseille's But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts by Mary Claire Haver

10. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

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Cover of Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky

12. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

By: Katie Ledecky

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more

Similar categories in Katie Ledecky's Just Add Water: My Swimming Life book and Claudia Marseille's But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa

13. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

Cover of What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11) by Alan Bradley

14. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)

By: Alan Bradley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more

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15. The History of Sound: Stories

By: Ben Shattuck

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more

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"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

16. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump

17. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

By: Fred C. Trump

4.07

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more

Similar categories in Fred C. Trump's All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way book and Claudia Marseille's But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir by Zoë Bossiere

18. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

By: Zoë Bossiere

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World by Claudia Marseille

19. But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

By: Claudia Marseille

4.22

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing … read more

Similar categories in Claudia Marseille's But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World book and Claudia Marseille's But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole by Marian Schembari

20. A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole

By: Marian Schembari

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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4.23

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4.14

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4.02

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