7 Top memoir books like Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior's South Shore by Sue Leaf

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Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior's South Shore

By: Sue Leaf

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A personal journey through the ever-changing natural and cultural history of Lake Superior’s South …

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1. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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2. Hoot

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Unfortunately, Roy's first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then agai… read more

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3. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highwaysis an unforgettable journey along … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

5. Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

4.09

Format: 315 pages,

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more

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6. Know the Mother

By: Desiree Cooper

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector-at the center of each mother is… read more

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7. Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the he… read more

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8. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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9. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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10. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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11. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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12. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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13. Dearborn

By: Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more

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14. The Book of Fire

By: Christy Lefteri

3.83

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches ch… read more

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15. Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic

By: Natalie Warren

3.95

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
"When in doubt, don't think too much, and walk around the block in your hiking boots."

-Natalie Warren, Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic

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16. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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17. Symphony of Secrets

By: Brendan Slocumb

4.27

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous Ameri… read more

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18. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Sarah Ogilvie

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"

-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

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19. The Waters

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

3.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more

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  • nature
"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."

-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

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20. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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21. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

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  • nature
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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22. Tin Camp Road

By: Ellen Airgood

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a wise, big hearted novel in which … read more

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23. Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 1)

By: Jeff Nania

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A shattered career. A crooked lawyer. An unsolved murder. Seeking peace in the Northwoods is fraugh… read more

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24. Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

By: Marie Yovanovitch

4.50

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Just as in the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine conspiracy, we saw a ruthless, single-minded obsession with staying in power; a manifest lack of moral values, shame, and civility; and a stunning disregard of a…"

-Marie Yovanovitch, Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

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25. 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
  • nature
"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

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26. Braving the Thin Places: Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space for Grace

By: Julianne Stanz

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

2023 Illumination Book Awards Gold Medalist, Spirituality 2023 Independent Press Awards Winner, Spi… read more

Similar categories in Julianne Stanz's Braving the Thin Places: Celtic Wisdom to Create a Space for Grace book and Sue Leaf's Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior's South Shore

  • nonfiction
Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

27. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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28. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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  • nature
Cover of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

29. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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31. Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior's South Shore

By: Sue Leaf

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A personal journey through the ever-changing natural and cultural history of Lake Superior’s South … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature

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2.43

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4.00

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3.20

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