8 must-read nonfiction books like Wounds by Razel Jones

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Wounds

By: Razel Jones

4.23

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Wounds: A Collaborative Memoir in Stories is about the triumphs and the pains experienced in Razel …

"Give me my brother. You can keep your friends."

-Razel Jones, Wounds

"We were beautifully different, and that was okay."

-Razel Jones, Wounds

"Accountability is the only real beginning to change."

-Razel Jones, Wounds

"Our world is not colorless. It is colorful, and we're better for it."

-Razel Jones, Wounds

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Wounds by Razel Jones , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Caleb's Crossing

By: Geraldine Brooks

3.85

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. … read more

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"I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me."

-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

"I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved."

-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

"This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet."

-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

"You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb"

-Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

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2. August Snow (August Snow #1)

By: Stephen Mack Jones

3.86

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of a… read more

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3. American Salvage

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

"These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is … read more

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4. Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

A multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner's powerful saga of survival and destiny in a near-future dy… read more

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5. Immortal in Death (In Death, #3)

By: J.D. Robb

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

When Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a top model, she is putting her career… read more

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6. When I Found You

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

While duck hunting one morning, childless, middle-aged Nathan McCann finds a newborn abandoned in t… read more

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7. 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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8. The Peacekeeper (The Good Lands, #1)

By: B.L. Blanchard

3.87

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an em… read more

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9. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

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10. 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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11. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

By: Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following  New York Times  bestselling author and ac… read more

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12. A Day Like This

By: Kelley McNeil

4.20

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

What if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared? Ann… read more

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"Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment. To celebrate the here and now. No life is perfect, I've learned. But if you're lucky, it can come pretty close."

-Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

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13. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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14. French Braid

By: Anne Tyler

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more

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15. A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on… read more

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"Yet the alternative he had suggested smacked of privilege, and wasn't privilege always bolstered by a discrimination of sorts?"

-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

"...places leave their mark in the same way that a human being can touch us. We have to make our peace with place, with the locations where we have spent time. We consider how we've been affected by b…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

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16. The Puma Years

By: Laura Coleman

4.34

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating jour… read more

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"The jungle really seems to listen to everything. I've never felt so vulnerable. It won't stop listening, and I don't know how to tell it that I hate it."

-Laura Coleman, The Puma Years

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17. The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)

By: Kim Michele Richardson

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Mi… read more

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"Though Mama and I were the last of the Blues, the very last of our kind, and different from others, the books united every one of us."

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman's Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #2)

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18. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

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"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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19. The Pull of the Stars

By: Emma Donoghue

3.96

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more

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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

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20. Unidentified

By: Douglas E. Richards

4.14

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

It's now clear that UFOs are real. When Jason Ramsey discovers their shocking agenda, his actions w… read more

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21. Damnation Spring

By: Ash Davidson

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will… read more

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22. Lost & Found: A Memoir

By: Kathryn Schulz

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more

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"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

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23. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. 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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25. Firekeeper’s Daughter

By: Angeline Boulley

4.33

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, Daunis Fontaine has never qui… read more

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"Good things end how they start"

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

"Who does not move forward recedes"

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

"Honor your spirit. Love yourself."

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

"Failure to plan means planning to fall."

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

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26. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

By: Miles Harvey

3.69

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Once We Were Here

By: Christopher Cosmos

4.19

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

As World War II intrudes upon their home, three young friends risk everything for freedom, love, an… read more

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28. The Dockporter: A Mackinac Island Novel (Mackinac Island Series #1)

By: Dave McVeigh

4.03

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the summer of 1989. Jack McGuinn is a dockporter, transporting tourists' luggage, piled high i… read more

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29. You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids (Made in Michigan Writer Series)

By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

4.13

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of a messy divorce, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang writes in the hope of beginning to build … read more

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30. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Wounds

By: Razel Jones

4.23

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Wounds: A Collaborative Memoir in Stories is about the triumphs and the pains experienced in Razel … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Give me my brother. You can keep your friends."

-Razel Jones, Wounds

"We were beautifully different, and that was okay."

-Razel Jones, Wounds

"Accountability is the only real beginning to change."

-Razel Jones, Wounds

"Our world is not colorless. It is colorful, and we're better for it."

-Razel Jones, Wounds

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