9 Best memoir books like Take The Long Way Home by Jon Claytor

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Take The Long Way Home

By: Jon Claytor

4.05

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A classic road trip memoir about love, family, and surprisingly conversational wildlife. In 2019…

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1. Wage slaves: En memoar av en prekär migrantarbetare

By: Daria Bogdańska

3.98

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Daria flyttar till Sverige och behöver starta om sitt liv, hon börjar med att söka arbete och får s… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Over Easy

By: Mimi Pond

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s. Over Easyis a brilliant … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. A Complicated Kindness

By: Miriam Toews

3.68

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voic… read more

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  • canada
"But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief."

-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

"He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using."

-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

"...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?"

-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

"One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey."

-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

4. The End of the Alphabet

By: C.S. Richardson

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ambrose Zephyr is a contented man. He shares a book-laden Victorian house with his loving wife, Zip… read more

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5. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

6. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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7. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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8. Keeping Two

By: Jordan Crane

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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9. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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  • graphic novels
Cover of Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

10. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • canada
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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11. Peau d'Homme

By: Hubert

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Sans contrefaçon, je suis un garçon ! Dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, Bianca, demoiselle de bonne… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

12. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

By: Kristen Radtke

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Cover of Are You Willing to Die for the Cause by Chris Oliveros

13. Are You Willing to Die for the Cause

By: Chris Oliveros

4.09

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history―the rise of a militant separ… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

14. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Time Zone J

By: Julie Doucet

3.34

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A wormhole into a fleeting romance told in a mind-bending first-person chorus Time Zone J is Julie… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image

By: Siobhan Gallagher

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journe… read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

17. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Cover of A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick

18. A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings

By: Will Betke-Brunswick

4.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

During Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagno… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60 by Alison McCreesh

19. Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60

By: Alison McCreesh

4.05

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

"The tension between free-spirited off-grid living and prosaic adult responsibility runs through Al… read more

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  • graphic novels
Cover of Take The Long Way Home by Jon Claytor

20. Take The Long Way Home

By: Jon Claytor

4.05

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A classic road trip memoir about love, family, and surprisingly conversational wildlife. In 2019… read more

Similar categories in Jon Claytor's Take The Long Way Home book and Jon Claytor's Take The Long Way Home

  • memoir
  • canada
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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21. Old Caves

By: Tyler Landry

3.41

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

A retiree dedicates his days to combing a dense, snow-covered forest in pursuit of the unknown, and… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

11 Top nonfiction books like Take The Long Way Home by Jon Claytor

Transform Your Habits

Wage slaves: En memoar av en prekär migrantarbetare

Daria Bogdańska

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Over Easy

Mimi Pond

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Kristen Radtke

4.01

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16 Best adult books like Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

Transform Your Habits

In.

Will McPhail

4.38

Transform Your Habits

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

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