10 best-selling history books like After Henry by Joan Didion

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After Henry

By: Joan Didion

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Ange…

If you liked the history plot in After Henry by Joan Didion , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary V. Dearborn

1. Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

By: Mary V. Dearborn

3.67

Format: 230 pages,

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Similar categories in Mary V. Dearborn's Ernest Hemingway: A Biography book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Sharks in the Rivers book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
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3. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

By: Ezra F. Vogel

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no sc… read more

Similar categories in Ezra F. Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Eve's Hollywood

By: Eve Babitz

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Eve's Hollywood book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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5. Ex-wife

By: Ursula Parrott

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more

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6. The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure

By: Jack Handey

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Deep Thoughtsand New Yorkerhumorist Jack Handey is back with his very first novel-a h… read more

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7. No Name in the Street

By: James Baldwin

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seve… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's No Name in the Street book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • essays
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8. White Girls

By: Hilton Als

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Womenfourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker… read more

Similar categories in Hilton Als's White Girls book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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9. After Henry

By: Joan Didion

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Ange… read more

Similar categories in Joan Didion's After Henry book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 20th century
  • journalism
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10. The Tolkien Reader

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Peter S. Beagle

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

An invitation to Tolkien's world. This rich treasury includes Tolkien's most beloved short fiction … read more

Similar categories in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Tolkien Reader book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • essays

11. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

By: Tracy Daugherty

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

In New York Timesbestselling The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author o… read more

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12. Steal This Book

By: Abbie Hoffman

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation … read more

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13. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By: Mike Davis

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more

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14. Speedboat

By: Renata Adler

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more

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15. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

By: Barbara Comyns

3.40

Format: None pages,

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16. When Angels Speak of Love

By: bell hooks

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This collection of 50 poems illuminates our experiences of love - tracing the links between seducti… read more

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17. The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy

By: Hillary Huber , Masha Gessen

3.29

Format: None pages, Audio CD

An important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the night… read more

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18. L.A. Woman

By: Eve Babitz

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

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19. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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20. The Last Stone

By: Mark Bowden

3.71

Format: 352 pages, None

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shoppin… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bowden's The Last Stone book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • history
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21. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • 20th century
  • essays
"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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22. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By: Alexandra Lange

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Lange's Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • history
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Cover of Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik

23. Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

By: Lili Anolik

3.58

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music … read more

Similar categories in Lili Anolik's Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

24. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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25. I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

By: Eve Babitz

4.15

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

An NYRB Classics Original With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books th… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • 20th century
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"As far as I'm concerned, you can't have fun in a high neckline - I don't care how witty you are."

-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

"I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weigh 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone."

-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

"When I weigh 130, my friends think I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weight 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she…"

-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

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26. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

By: Ai Weiwei

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more

Similar categories in Ai Weiwei's Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. The World According to Joan Didion

By: Evelyn McDonnell

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential w… read more

Similar categories in Evelyn McDonnell's The World According to Joan Didion book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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28. Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

By: Melville House

4.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conver… read more

Similar categories in Melville House's Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike  Davis

29. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

By: Mike Davis

4.38

Format: 1051 pages, Kindle Edition

A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesHistories of the US Six… read more

Similar categories in Mike Davis's Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

By: John McPhee

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. … read more

Similar categories in John McPhee's Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 book and Joan Didion's After Henry

  • journalism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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31. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)

By: Terrance Hayes

4.17

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more

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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

Mary V. Dearborn

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Ezra F. Vogel

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Eve's Hollywood

Eve Babitz

3.44

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Where I Was From

Joan Didion

3.87

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Sarah Vowell

3.84

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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C.L.R. James

4.55

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Vincent Bevins

4.28

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