5 best-selling memoir books like Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff

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Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

By: Sofka Zinovieff

3.73

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

From a privileged childhood in Tsarist St Petersburg to dedicated member of the British Communist P…

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1. The Girl Before

By: J.P. Delaney

3.70

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune and another wom… read more

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"Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived."

-J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

"«(...) é narcisista acreditar que podemos mudar a natureza intrínseca a outra pessoa.»"

-J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

"I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy."

-J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

"We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything."

-J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

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2. The House of Special Purpose

By: John Boyne

4.18

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the… read more

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  • russia
"A man was standing at the end of the hallway, just outside an open door, from where a great light shone, illuminating him almost as a god."

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of powe…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It's enough to make me laugh. I close the door behind me and sit down again, considering this, and truly, I find it so funny that I laugh until I cry. And when the tears come I think aah... So this i…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

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3. The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1)

By: Boris Akunin , Andrew Bromfield

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself … read more

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  • russia
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4. An Unsuitable Attachment

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages,

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5. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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6. Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By: Laura Thompson

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir

7. Tulip Fever

By: Deborah Moggach

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze wi… read more

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8. The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin , None

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more

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9. Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on … read more

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10. Eye of the Red Tsar (Inspector Pekkala, #1)

By: Sam Eastland

3.44

Format: 330 pages,

One July, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the bas… read more

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11. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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12. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

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13. Hildur (Hildur, #1)

By: Satu Rämö

3.58

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Satu Rämö vie lukijansa Islannin vuonojen hämärään - eikä ruumiilta vältytä. Hildur aloittaa Isl… read more

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14. Silver Tears (Faye's Revenge, #2)

By: Camilla Läckberg

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spine-tingling novel of revenge, betrayal, and sisterhood from the internationally celebrated aut… read more

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15. 36 uurnaa : väärässä olemisen historia

By: Sirpa Kähkönen

3.59

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Kirjailija Sirpa Kähkösen äiti Riitta (s. 1941) kuoli maaliskuussa 2022 pitkään sairastettuaan. Elä… read more

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16. The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)

By: Kate Mosse

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The Ci… read more

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  • france
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17. Pimeät kuut

By: Tommi Kinnunen

3.75

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Jäänkirkasta valoa hohtava romaani naisesta, joka luuli tietävänsä kuka on. ”Ei tästä elämästä k… read more

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18. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

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20. The Golden Cage (Faye's Revenge, #1)

By: Camilla Läckberg

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating new novel from a global superstar--a sexy, over-the-top psychological thriller that… read more

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"Every cell in our body gets renewed, replaced. The same ought to be true of memories."

-Camilla Läckberg, The Golden Cage (Faye's Revenge, #1)

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21. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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22. The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793

By: Niklas Natt och Dag

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Best Debut, The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2017 The year is 1793, Stockholm. King G… read more

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23. Pandora

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

3.67

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

London, 1799. Dora Blake, an aspiring jewelry artist, lives with her odious uncle atop her late par… read more

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"but since when did gratitude mean the acceptance of rage?"

-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora

"It amazes him how much money rich people seem happy to waste on entertainment for one mere evening."

-Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora

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24. Code Name Hélène

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.41

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code… read more

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  • france
"I am the same but different, and I greet this new reflection with a nod of acceptance. There is metal in my spine and there are fractures in my soul. I resemble Garrow now. I have been changed by war."

-Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

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25. Huvituksen kartanon tytöt

By: Jaana Skyttä

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Pahamaineisen tyttökodin vaiettu tarina. Yläneellä sijainnut tyttökoti, Huvitus, oli tarkoitettu… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Luutnantti Ströbelin istumajärjestys

By: Roope Lipasti

3.85

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Kolmekymmenvuotisen sodan laineet lyövät Turkuun historiallisessa romaanissa. Käsipuoli Påval-or… read more

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27. Tyttö maissipellossa : Anna Jokisen mysteerikuolema

By: Jenni Stammeier

3.50

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Anna Jokinen katosi tanssi-illan jälkeen Torontossa joulukuussa 1913. Keuruulaispiika löytyi henkit… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Punapakolaiset : suomalaisnaisten elämä ja kohtalo Neuvosto-Karjalassa

By: Maria Lähteenmäki

3.74

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

Suomen raskaan sisällissodan jälkimainingeissa kaoottiselle Neuvosto-Venäjälle rynnisti tuhansia po… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff

29. Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

By: Sofka Zinovieff

3.73

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

From a privileged childhood in Tsarist St Petersburg to dedicated member of the British Communist P… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • ukraine
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
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30. Kuolemankauppiaat (Undertaker 6)

By: Marko Kilpi

3.28

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Taktisen ydinpommin räjähdys pääkaupungin keskustassa paljastaa kansainvälisen rikollisen Jarmo Kiv… read more

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Survival in Auschwitz

Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Transform Your Habits

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3.70

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4.34

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Jaana Skyttä

3.54

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Gill Hornby

3.69

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Heather Fawcett

4.02

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Elodie Harper

4.39

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Elodie Harper

4.22

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