17 Top nonfiction books like Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class by Sarah Smarsh

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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

By: Sarah Smarsh

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that establis…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class by Sarah Smarsh , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the g… read more

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2. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Jones's That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

By: Kathleen Sheppard

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt an… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Sheppard's Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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5. The History of Sound: Stories

By: Ben Shattuck

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more

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  • audiobook
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

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6. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

By: Rachelle Bergstein

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more

Similar categories in Rachelle Bergstein's The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

By: Alan Townsend

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more

Similar categories in Alan Townsend's This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • american
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

By: Chris Nashawaty

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more

Similar categories in Chris Nashawaty's The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • nonfiction
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10. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

Similar categories in Garth Greenwell's Small Rain book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • audiobook
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11. Rental House

By: Weike Wang

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as se… read more

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12. The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA

By: Jesse Katz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

TATTOOS ON THE HEART meets GHETTOSIDE in this gripping true story about a botched gang murder set i… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Katz's The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

By: Laci Mosley

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious, delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning “… read more

Similar categories in Laci Mosley's Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

14. 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

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • nonfiction
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15. Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

By: Sarah Smarsh

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that establis… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • american
  • biography
  • memoir
  • collections
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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16. Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

By: Arlie Russell Hochschild

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award f… read more

Similar categories in Arlie Russell Hochschild's Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • american
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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17. Connie: A Memoir

By: Connie Chung

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In an industry dominated by white men, Connie Chung stood alone, the first and only Asian woman to … read more

Similar categories in Connie Chung's Connie: A Memoir book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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19. First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream

By: Jessica Hoppe

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creat… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary

20. Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

By: Marty Makary

4.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Pr… read more

Similar categories in Marty Makary's Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • nonfiction
Cover of Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me by Glory Edim

21. Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

By: Glory Edim

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help … read more

Similar categories in Glory Edim's Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me book and Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

15 Best audiobook books like Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class by Sarah Smarsh

Transform Your Habits

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

Kathleen Sheppard

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The History of Sound: Stories

Ben Shattuck

4.38

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18 Top audiobook books like Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung

Transform Your Habits

You Never Know: A Memoir

Tom Selleck

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Lovely One: A Memoir

Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

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