Drifts
By: Natasha Burge
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Natasha Burge was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her family lived for more than half a cen…
Want to Read $ 12.95If you liked the nonfiction plot in Drifts by Natasha Burge , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- nonfiction
2. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
3. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
4. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
By: Olivia Laing
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Olivia Laing's The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
5. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
6. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Suzie Miller's Prima Facie book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
7. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
8. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- nonfiction
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
9. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Chloe Michelle Howarth's Sunburn book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
10. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Motherhood book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
11. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
12. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.52
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
13. The Adventures of China Iron
By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's The Adventures of China Iron book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
14. Milk Teeth
By: Jessica Andrews
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
15. Stim: An Autistic Anthology
By: Lizzie Huxley-Jones
4.14
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Around one in one hundred people in the UK are autistic, yet there remains a fundamental misunderst… read more
Want to Read $ 6.15Similar categories in Lizzie Huxley-Jones's Stim: An Autistic Anthology book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
16. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
17. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Hanako Footman's Mongrel book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
18. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
By: Maddie Mortimer
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Maddie Mortimer's Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
20. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
By: Chloé Hayden
4.34
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Chloé Hayden's Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- nonfiction
- autistic spectrum disorder
- biography
- memoir
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
21. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
By: Nick Walker
4.37
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on h… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Nick Walker's Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
"If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs mo…"-Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
22. Crudo
By: Olivia Laing
3.19
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acc… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Olivia Laing's Crudo book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"What a waste, what a crime, to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"He read last, and when he got to a line about an entire bowl she gasped. Every word came out clean. We're a monstrous pair of crows, devoted to a single being."-Olivia Laing, Crudo
"40, not a bad run in the history of human existence but she’d really rather it all kept going, water in the taps, whales in the oceans, fruit and duvets, the whole sumptuous parade, she was into it t…"-Olivia Laing, Crudo
23. What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
By: Annie Kotowicz
4.40
Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition
In this intimate and insightful mix of memoir and manifesto, Annie Kotowicz invites you inside the … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"There are billions of us -- humans everywhere, with access to our own minds and no one else's, tossing one another songs and sentences to bridge the gap."-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
"I’ve noticed a communication pattern among autistics, myself included—we often try to express solidarity through similarity. “I’ve been through something like that"-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
24. UNMASKED
By: Ellie Middleton
4.24
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ellie Middleton's UNMASKED book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
25. Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism
By: Joanne Limburg
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me … read more
Want to Read $ 8.49Similar categories in Joanne Limburg's Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- nonfiction
- autistic spectrum disorder
- biography
- memoir
"Guilt attaches to an act, but shame attaches to a person."-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism
"We are, all of us, striving constantly to pass those normality exams, to take our raw and boundless selves and squash them into the forms of neater and nicer girls."-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism
26. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
27. Some Like It Cold
By: Elle McNicoll
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A big-hearted small-town romance from bestselling, award-winning author Elle McNicoll, Some Like it… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Some Like It Cold book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- autistic spectrum disorder
28. Drifts
By: Natasha Burge
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Natasha Burge was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her family lived for more than half a cen… read more
Want to Read $ 12.95Similar categories in Natasha Burge's Drifts book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- biography
- memoir
- autistic spectrum disorder
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. Strong Female Character
By: Hanna Flint
3.85
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
Leading film critic of her generation offers an unflinchingly honest and humorous account of her mi… read more
Want to Read $ 12.95Similar categories in Hanna Flint's Strong Female Character book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- nonfiction
30. Sanatorium
By: Abi Palmer
4.08
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Abi Palmer's Sanatorium book and Natasha Burge's Drifts
- nonfiction
- memoir
