7 best-selling memoir books like With Open Arms: Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco by Matthew Felix

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With Open Arms: Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco

By: Matthew Felix

3.34

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

"Sometimes hilarious, sometimes horrifying, always entertaining." - T. Holland #1 Kindle Morocco…

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Cover of In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams by Tahir Shah

1. In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

By: Tahir Shah

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Tahir Shah's The Caliph's House, describing his first year in Casablanca, was hailed by critics and… read more

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  • travel
  • morocco
  • memoir
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2. The Spider's House

By: Francine Prose , Paul Bowles

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's Houseis perhaps … read more

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  • morocco
Cover of Safari des Lebens by John P. Strelecky

3. Safari des Lebens

By: John P. Strelecky

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

Die funf grossen Ziele im Leben Nach seinem Bestseller "Das Cafe am Rande der Welt" entfuhrt John S… read more

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  • travel
Cover of The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) by Elly Griffiths

4. The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth G… read more

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5. In a Sunburned Country

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more

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  • travel
  • memoir

6. I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

By: Nora Ephron

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shar… read more

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7. The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco

By: None , Barnaby Rogerson

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thou… read more

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8. A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

By: Suzanna Clarke

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated house in the Moroccan town of Fez, their f… read more

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9. The Sense of an Ending

By: Julian Barnes

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more

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10. The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca

By: Tahir Shah

4.36

Format: 524 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of A Year in Provenceand Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tah… read more

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11. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

By: Fatema Mernissi

2.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and ric… read more

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12. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

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"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

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13. The House Beyond the Dunes

By: Mary Burton

4.04

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

A tragic accident or something more sinister? A woman’s buried memories put her life at risk in a n… read more

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"Social media posts are as good as, maybe better than, any personality test."

-Mary Burton, The House Beyond the Dunes

"Nothing like being on the receiving end of evil to know what it smells and tastes like."

-Mary Burton, The House Beyond the Dunes

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14. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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15. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

By: Lynne Olson

4.26

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more

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  • travel
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

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16. The Storyteller of Casablanca

By: Fiona Valpy

4.40

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

In this evocative tale from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift, a strange new city off… read more

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  • morocco
Cover of Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

17. Five Tuesdays in Winter

By: Lily King

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King's first-ever… read more

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"It's not here anymore." He said. "What?" "What happened."

-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

"She wondered how other people adjusted to vacations. It was such an unpleasant feeling, like gunning a car in neutral."

-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

"Adults hid their pain, their fears, their failure, but adolescents hid their happiness, as if to reveal it would risk its loss."

-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

"Socially we balanced each other out. He was the guy who came into the room and everyone was relieved. I made people deeply uneasy, myself most of all."

-Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

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18. The Trail

By: Ethan Gallogly

4.31

Format: None pages, ebook

A Transformative Journey on the John Muir Trail A NEXT GEN INDIE BOOK AWARD FINALIST Set auth… read more

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  • travel
Cover of The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul   Newman

19. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

By: Paul Newman

3.89

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more

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  • memoir
Cover of The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar

20. The Secret Life of Sunflowers

By: Marta Molnar

4.13

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in… read more

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21. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

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"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

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22. The Family Chao

By: Lan Samantha Chang

3.35

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized … read more

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"Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves."

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For ev…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"In Alf's close-up, he's less than a year old, almost unrecognizably puppyish. He gazes directly at James, head slightly cocked, bat ears unfolded in typical, unceasing alertness. His small black nose…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with t…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

Cover of Fear No Evil (Alex Cross,  #29) by James  Patterson

23. Fear No Evil (Alex Cross, #29)

By: James Patterson

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Alex Cross enters the final showdown with the relentless killer who has stalked him and his family … read more

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24. Safe at the Edge of the World (The Tour #2)

By: Jean Grainger

4.19

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

A tranquil Irish vacation, music, scenery, food... but someone on this tour has a secret he's despe… read more

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  • travel
Cover of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy

25. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

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Cover of My 1001 Nights: Tales and Adventures from Morocco by Alice Morrison

26. My 1001 Nights: Tales and Adventures from Morocco

By: Alice Morrison

4.24

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

TV presenter, writer and adventurer Alice Morrison gives her own unique and personal insight into M… read more

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  • travel
  • morocco
Cover of Our Morocco: Moroccans and Expats Share Their Lives, Hopes, Dreams, and Adventures by Lucas Peters

27. Our Morocco: Moroccans and Expats Share Their Lives, Hopes, Dreams, and Adventures

By: Lucas Peters

4.00

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the terraces of Tangier's Cafe Hafa to the depths of the Marrakesh medina, Moroccans and long-… read more

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Cover of From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke

28. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

By: Tembi Locke

3.95

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New Y… read more

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  • travel
  • memoir
"Cooking is about surrender."

-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

"We had to begin at an ending and make a new beginning."

-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

"But I had learned that identity is prismatic, that belonging requires claiming."

-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

"Yet nothing about dying was easy. Not for him nor for me. It was labor, as much labor as coming into this world."

-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

29. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Kept: An American Househusband in India by Gregory E. Buford

30. Kept: An American Househusband in India

By: Gregory E. Buford

4.45

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Kept: An American Househusband in India is a hilarious, heart-warming tale of a company man turned … read more

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  • travel
  • memoir
Cover of With Open Arms: Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco by Matthew Felix

31. With Open Arms: Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco

By: Matthew Felix

3.34

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

"Sometimes hilarious, sometimes horrifying, always entertaining." - T. Holland #1 Kindle Morocco… read more

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  • morocco
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