9 Top nonfiction books like Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year by Jennifer Miller

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Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year

By: Jennifer Miller

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Making it through the first year of college is tough. What makes it even tougher is being the first…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year by Jennifer Miller , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

1. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

By: Sherman Alexie

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestsel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. Only This Beautiful Moment

By: Abdi Nazemian

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three genera… read more

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3. Northranger

By: Rey Terciero

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this swoony and spooky teen summer romance graphic novel set on a Texas ranch, sixteen-year-old … read more

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"You weren't wrong about me being a killer. But the only person I've ever tried to kill is myself."

-Rey Terciero, Northranger

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4. Thieves' Gambit (Thieves' Gambit, #1)

By: Kayvion Lewis

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat compe… read more

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5. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

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6. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

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7. Where You See Yourself

By: Claire Forrest

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and mu… read more

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8. The Faint of Heart

By: Kerilynn Wilson

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What would you do if you were the only person left with a heart? The only person left who felt anyt… read more

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"Ama duygulara karşı hissizleştirmek, kalbi zayıflatıyor."

-Kerilynn Wilson, The Faint of Heart

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9. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

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10. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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11. The Getaway List

By: Emma Lord

3.58

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last … read more

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"The longer I'm in New York, the more I get the impression that it isn't the shiny new universe I expected it to be. It's just the home of 100,000 little universes... that all exist rubbing up against…"

-Emma Lord, The Getaway List

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12. An Improbable Season (An Improbable Season, #1)

By: Rosalyn Eves

3.65

Format: None pages, ebook

When Thalia, Kalliope, and Charis set off to Regency London for their first Season, they know exact… read more

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13. Brooms

By: Jasmine Walls

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more

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14. First Gen: A Memoir

By: Alejandra Campoverdi

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An unflinching memoir about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina — offering both a rive… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • education
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15. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

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"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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16. Give Me a Sign

By: Anna Sortino

4.11

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when… read more

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17. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. The Chaperone

By: M. Hendrix

3.75

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Like every young woman in New America, Stella knows the rules: Deflect attention. Abstain from… read more

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19. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory by Ruta Sepetys

20. You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory

By: Ruta Sepetys

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Life is story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi

21. A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars

By: Hakeem Oluseyi

4.48

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverishe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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22. The Blood Years

By: Elana K. Arnold

4.32

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke T… read more

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23. The Reunion

By: Kit Frick

3.39

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous secrets culmina… read more

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24. Six Truths and a Lie

By: Ream Shukairy

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Six Muslim teens are falsely accused of a deadly attack in this timely and harrowing examination of… read more

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25. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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26. An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America

By: Jonathan Kozol

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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27. Dark Testament: Blackout Poems

By: Crystal Simone Smith

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In this extraordinary collection, the award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith gives voice to the mo… read more

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28. The Queens of New York

By: E.L. Shen

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian America… read more

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"Freudian slips happen to the breast of us"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"Once you've bowed your head and burned the incense, the grief locks inside the coffin, shrouded underneath new grass and fertile soil. But I don't think Ariel has any grass at all."

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"I inhale with the waves flooding the shore. They are easy. They are mine. I can feel my heartbeat slowing. Bea may be in Queens underground, but for now, she is here. We are little girls again, on th…"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

"When I got my official acceptance letter in the mail, Umma immediately pinned it to the fridge. She took down my old tests to make room. This letter deserved the entire metal canvas. It was the culmi…"

-E.L. Shen, The Queens of New York

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29. House Party

By: Justin A. Reynolds

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that … read more

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30. Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year

By: Jennifer Miller

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Making it through the first year of college is tough. What makes it even tougher is being the first… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Miller's Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year book and Jennifer Miller's Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year

  • nonfiction
  • college
  • biography
  • education
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31. Love You a Latke

By: Amanda Elliot

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Love comes home for the challah-days in this sparkling romance. Snow is falling, holiday lights are… read more

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4.35

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