15 must-read memoir books like Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage by Kay Bratt

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Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

By: Kay Bratt

3.42

Format: None pages,

When her family relocated to rural China in 2003, Kay Bratt was thrust into a new world, one where …

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1. Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

By: Kay Bratt

3.42

Format: None pages,

When her family relocated to rural China in 2003, Kay Bratt was thrust into a new world, one where … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • adoption
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china

2. Lula Mae

By: None

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

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3. Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

By: Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Riveting true story about the power of family and the majesty of the wilderness Marty Ohlhaut lo… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Had I known just how memorable our trip was about to be, we never would have left the house."

-Marty Ohlhaut, Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

"It was that melancholy time of afternoon, when spirits seem suspended between the day’s activities and the night’s reminiscence."

-Marty Ohlhaut, Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

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4. Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

By: Teresa Van Woy

4.56

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Abducted by her mentally unstable mother, one girl forages her way to the top. "A gripping account… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Displaced: A Memoir by Esther Wiebe

5. Displaced: A Memoir

By: Esther Wiebe

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Displaced is a gripping true story of a young girl and her young siblings’ escape from a conservat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. A Storm of Infinite Beauty

By: Julianne MacLean

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s … read more

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7. No Place Like Home: A Novel

By: Barbara O'Neal

4.51

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

An enriching and deeply moving novel about love and loss, the bonds of family and friends, and comi… read more

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8. The Bootlegger's Daughter

By: Nadine Nettmann

4.13

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

In Prohibition-era Los Angeles, two women on opposite sides of the law must take control of their l… read more

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9. Closer than you think (Mags Munroe #4)

By: Jean Grainger

4.70

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Mags Munroe is juggling a lot. A Gen Z new Garda recruit who lectures everyone on political correct… read more

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10. Coconut

By: Florence Olajide

4.36

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the '50s and '60s, privately fostered by … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

By: Lonormi Manuel

4.47

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more

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"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."

-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel

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12. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

Similar categories in J. Thomas Grant's The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine book and Kay Bratt's Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. Mockingbird Summer

By: Lynda Rutledge

4.25

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s… read more

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14. The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

By: Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

4.06

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional and sweeping memoir of love and survival—and of a committed and desperate family uproo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Hate is not from God. People who use religion to hate can't love God. It is impossible."

-Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller, The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

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15. Quilly

By: Jan Strickland

4.55

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

What was it like to be biracial in the early 1900’s in a small white southern town where the divisi… read more

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16. Shackled to my Family

By: Samina Younis

3.94

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

10th ANNIVERSARY The improved 2022 edition includes a short interview with the author bringing her… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Lost Diary

By: Rose Alexander

4.51

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

A wartime secret. A heartbreaking choice. A promise that cost her everything… German-occupied te… read more

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18. The Orphan's Mother

By: Marion Kummerow

4.54

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

1945, the German-Polish border: With Nazis on one side and Soviet forces approaching on the other, … read more

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19. When the World Goes Quiet

By: Gian Sardar

4.32

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a po… read more

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20. To the Bridge

By: Nancy Rommelmann

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Rommelmann's To the Bridge book and Kay Bratt's Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. After All...

By: Maria Trautman

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

She grew up thinking she deserved neglect. Can a young girl escape a loveless home to seize elusive… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity. by Julia Walker

22. Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity.

By: Julia Walker

4.35

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Hazel Lamb…Lindsey, but my momma called me Fireball. I am 84 years old. I only had one y… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of A Brighter Flame by Christine Nolfi

23. A Brighter Flame

By: Christine Nolfi

4.16

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

She’s always wanted a sense of belonging. The last place she expects to find it is home. Vale Light… read more

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24. Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

By: Tanya Marquardt

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Brutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself. After gro… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"When I left, I took everything with me...I reached under my bed where there were two leather-bound journals that had gold lettering on the front covers and that fastened with a flimsy lock. I read th…"

-Tanya Marquardt, Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

"We were magical and alive - we cared about music and conversation, sex and spit and blood, holding on tight to the space between youth and adulthood. When I look back at that time, my nostalgia can b…"

-Tanya Marquardt, Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

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25. Anger Is My Middle Name: A Memoir

By: Lisbeth Zornig Andersen

4.12

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkn… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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26. The River

By: Kevin Weadock

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The impact of alcoholism on a New York family is described through the eyes of a young boy. The boy… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Greetings from Lavender Valley (Sisters of the Heart, #1) by Tammy L. Grace

27. Greetings from Lavender Valley (Sisters of the Heart, #1)

By: Tammy L. Grace

4.14

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

Jewel Austin is a foster mother to dozens, but forms a special bond with five foster girls she welc… read more

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Cover of Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World by Christina Rickardsson

28. Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

By: Christina Rickardsson

3.97

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary memoir of one woman’s fight to find her true self between the life into which she … read more

Similar categories in Christina Rickardsson's Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World book and Kay Bratt's Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adoption
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I've never felt the need to find out who I am, where I come from, or why I was abandoned. I know who I am, where I come from; most of all I know that I wasn't abandoned. Kidnapping might be too stron…"

-Christina Rickardsson, Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

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29. Third Party

By: Brandi Reeds

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it murder? Is someone playing mind games? Or is it both? The chilling answers are in this twisti… read more

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30. Charlie's Secret: Inspired by a True Story (Samantha Mallon, #1)

By: C.L. Heckman

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

After years of torture, a mentally and physically abused daughter finally stands up to her abusers,… read more

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

31. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

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