13 must-read nonfiction books like The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels With Albie: An American Journey by Peter Zheutlin

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The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels With Albie: An American Journey

By: Peter Zheutlin

3.46

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Road embarks on a cross-country journey to take the…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels With Albie: An American Journey by Peter Zheutlin , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

By: Jarvis Jay Masters

3.91

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. Yellow Crocus

By: Laila Ibrahim

3.69

Format: 384 pages,

Mattie was never truly mine. That knowledge must have filled me as quickly and surely as the milk f… read more

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3. Those Who Save Us

By: Jenna Blum

3.12

Format: None pages,

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. … read more

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4. Flight of the Sparrow

By: Amy Belding Brown

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilde… read more

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5. The One-in-a-Million Boy

By: Monica Wood

4.06

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help he… read more

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6. Band of Sisters

By: Cathy Gohlke

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maureen O'Reilly and her younger sister flee Ireland in hope of claiming the life promised to their… read more

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7. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

By: Jennifer Ryan

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we ne… read more

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8. I, Eliza Hamilton

By: Susan Holloway Scott

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written novel of historical fiction, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott te… read more

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9. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

By: Liza Mundy

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girlsis the astonishing, untol… read more

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10. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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11. The Children's Blizzard

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife reveals a little-known story of courage… read more

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"The Great Plains were immense enough to inspire the grandest, most foolish of dreams - but they were also vast enough that no one could ever explore every corner."

-Melanie Benjamin, The Children's Blizzard

"The blizzard, created when an enormous trough of cold air rushing in from the Arctic had met up with an equally enormous influx of warm, wet air from the gulf, gobbled up everything in its path. The …"

-Melanie Benjamin, The Children's Blizzard

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12. Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

4.31

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. 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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14. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

By: Kim Michele Richardson

4.22

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for ISBN 978-1492671527 can be found here. In 1936, tucked deep into … read more

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"What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing."

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

"Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain't much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There's the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, …"

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

"There's nothing wrong with your color, being you," he said firmly. "Nothing wrong with what the good Lord gives us in His world, Cussy Mary." He didn't know, couldn't know, the load I'd carried as a …"

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

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15. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

By: Rebekah Taussig

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"

-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

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16. Grimoires and Gingerbread (Sugar Shack Witch Mysteries #1.5)

By: Danielle Garrett

3.92

Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition

Christmas in Winterspell means ice skating, hot cocoa by the barrel, and frosted gingerbread houses… read more

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17. The Kitchen Front

By: Jennifer Ryan

3.97

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In a new World War II-set story from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, four wom… read more

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18. Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie

By: Carly Simon

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller - Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by People magazineA… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Things in Jars

By: Jess Kidd

3.70

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Bridie Devine, female detective extraordinaire, is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: th… read more

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"Stories, particularly the bad ones, are told in their own time."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"The raven turns in her element and the world turns too, confirming what she already knew: she is the centre of everything."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"For this is their parting: as sudden and slow, surprising and foreseen as any parting. Between together and apart: an eyeblink and all of eternity."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"Sir Edmund is a collector, an insatiable, relentless collector, with an interest in anomalies and mutations, aberrations and malformations of life in or around the realm of water. If it swims or padd…"

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

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20. My Daughter’s Keeper (World War II Brave Women Fiction)

By: Adiva Geffen

4.52

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Would you entrust the most important thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you? Poland,… read more

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21. We All Want Impossible Things

By: Catherine Newman

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more

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"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."

-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

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22. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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23. The Moth and the Mountain

By: Ed Caesar

3.79

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary true story about one man’s attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own sou… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. The Forgotten Home Child

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caugh… read more

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Cover of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben

25. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

By: Bill McKibben

4.19

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. Women of the Post

By: Joshunda Sanders

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An emotional story, based on true events, about the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps w… read more

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"Support units are the spine of the war effort. Because we do a job that is invisible and does not take place on the battlefield does not mean what we do isn't difficult or dangerous."

-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post

"It is the fight of his life - of our lives - to defend our country and maybe it will show white people that we can also belong to and defend this place. We built it too, after all. It is as much our …"

-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post

"We all found ways to mirror her contributions to America, even when our country never gave us back all that we gave it. It's a shame that it takes going to other places to help us see how to transfor…"

-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post

"The most important thing is those letters... They keep soldiers connected to the most significant people in their lives. Their families, their children, their wives and mothers. That keeps them motiv…"

-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post

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27. Thomas Jefferson's Education

By: Alan Taylor

3.66

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great u… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

28. 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
  • memoir
Cover of Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry

29. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

By: Spencer Henry

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Based on the popular podcast, The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American cul… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels With Albie: An American Journey by Peter Zheutlin

30. The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels With Albie: An American Journey

By: Peter Zheutlin

3.46

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Road embarks on a cross-country journey to take the… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • dogs
Cover of Three Wild Dogs (and the truth): A Memoir by Markus Zusak

31. Three Wild Dogs (and the truth): A Memoir

By: Markus Zusak

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant, funny, and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world’s most beloved storyteller… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • dogs

11 Best memoir books like The Dog Went Over the Mountain: Travels With Albie: An American Journey by Peter Zheutlin

Transform Your Habits

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

Jarvis Jay Masters

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

Henry Winkler

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Enough

Cassidy Hutchinson

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

4.45

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The Parisian Dancer (World War II Brave Women Fiction)

Doron Darmon

4.41

Transform Your Habits

My Name Is Vittoria

Dafna Vitale Ben Bassat

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Polish Nurse: A WW2 Historical Fiction Novel (World War II Brave Women Fiction Book 1)

Leah Moyes

4.48

Transform Your Habits

The Secret They Hid (Margot's Secret #1)

Roberta Kagan

4.36

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