8 best-selling war books like Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West by Damien Lewis, Zoya Phan

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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West

By: Damien Lewis , Zoya Phan

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma to the Karen tribe, which for decades has been re…

If you liked the war plot in Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West by Damien Lewis, Zoya Phan , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

By: Sandra Uwiringiyimana , Abigail Pesta

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful memoir, Sandra Uwiringyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, te… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"It's okay to express yourself. It doesn't mean you're weak"

-Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

"I knew the sounds of war before I knew how to do a cartwheel."

-Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

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2. The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma

By: Thant Myint-U

3.77

Format: None pages,

For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in… read more

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  • asia
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. Desperation

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desp… read more

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4. The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

By: John Boyne

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatri… read more

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  • war
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5. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

By: Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

"A gripping tale of secrets and self-discovery." --People The Foundlingtells the incredible and ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West

By: Damien Lewis , Zoya Phan

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma to the Karen tribe, which for decades has been re… read more

Similar categories in Damien Lewis's Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West book and Damien Lewis's Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • war
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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7. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

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  • war

8. From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By: Pascal Khoo Thwe

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2002 Kiriyama Prize in Nonfiction The astonishing story of a young man's upbringing i… read more

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9. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

By: Anne Fadiman

3.91

Format: 2 pages,

Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more

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10. Genghis: Birth of an Empire (Conqueror, #1)

By: Conn Iggulden

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the author of the bestselling "The Dangerous Book for Boys" He was born Temujin, the son of a … read more

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11. Miss Burma

By: Charmaine Craig

4.04

Format: None pages,

A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world h… read more

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12. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

By: Jonas Jonasson , Rachel Willson-Broyles

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes a picaresq… read more

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13. Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

By: Alan Brennert

4.12

Format: 309 pages, ebook

This companion tale to Moloka'i tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantine… read more

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  • war
"We are together, all else can be endured."

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"Let the things of long ago drift away on the water"

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"Her grief was a storm, a driving rain falling too fast to be absorbed"

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain."

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

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14. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

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"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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15. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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16. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

By: Nadia Murad

4.47

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Is… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man…"

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

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17. Kaleidoscope

By: Brian Selznick

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the s… read more

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"And then the wind turned into a hurricane inside my mind"

-Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

"Nothing makes living people feel more powerless than Death"

-Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

"Life isn't organized. Why should my library be any diffrent?"

-Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

"Maybe time is uncontrollable, and endless, and ... dangerous."

-Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

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18. Squire

By: Nadia Shammas

4.06

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more

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19. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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  • asia
  • war
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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20. The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

By: Thant Myint-U

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natu… read more

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  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Refugee 87

By: Ele Fountain

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A young refugee embarks on a dangerous journey in this timeless and award-winning novel of survival… read more

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  • war

5 must-read history books like Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West by Damien Lewis, Zoya Phan

Transform Your Habits

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Sandra Uwiringiyimana , Abigail Pesta

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma

Thant Myint-U

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West

Damien Lewis , Zoya Phan

2.33

Transform Your Habits

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

Nadia Murad

4.47

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14 Best fiction books like The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

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Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

4.75

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

Hilary Mantel

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Possession

A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

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