10 must-read nonfiction books like Red Azalea: A Memoir by Anchee Min

Cover of Red Azalea: A Memoir by Anchee Min

Red Azalea: A Memoir

By: Anchee Min

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up…

"If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter."

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

"If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter."

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

"I led my schoolmates in collecting pennies. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America."

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

"I led my schoolmates in collecting pennies. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America."

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Red Azalea: A Memoir by Anchee Min , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

By: Jennifer Traig

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in rec… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Traig's Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming by Shreve Stockton

2. The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming

By: Shreve Stockton

3.10

Format: 271 pages,

When photographer and writer Shreve Stockton decided to move back to her beloved New York from San … read more

Similar categories in Shreve Stockton's The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think by Cybill Shepherd, Aimee Lee Ball

3. Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think

By: Cybill Shepherd , Aimee Lee Ball

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

From Model to Moonlighting, from Elvis to Bruce Willis to motherhood to a behind-the-scenes inside … read more

Similar categories in Cybill Shepherd's Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy by Dorothy Allred Solomon

4. Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy

By: Dorothy Allred Solomon

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

"Probably the best book ever written about polygamy. Neither an apologia nor an exposé."― Salt Lake… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Allred Solomon's Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Whatever Happened To Romance?: A Modern Girls Quest For True Love, One Learning Experience At A Time by K.T. Edwards, Jeff Byers

5. Whatever Happened To Romance?: A Modern Girls Quest For True Love, One Learning Experience At A Time

By: K.T. Edwards , Jeff Byers

4.33

Format: None pages, ebook

Whatever Happened To Romance? chronicles the real life dating mishaps of author K.T. Edwards as she… read more

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Cover of Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas

6. Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad

By: Firoozeh Dumas

4.13

Format: None pages,

In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Irania… read more

Similar categories in Firoozeh Dumas's Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Red Azalea: A Memoir by Anchee Min

7. Red Azalea: A Memoir

By: Anchee Min

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up… read more

Similar categories in Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • asia
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • asian literature
  • china
"If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter."

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

"I led my schoolmates in collecting pennies. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America."

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

"Imi spuse ca era adevarat ca nici una dintre operele exemplare nu vorbea despre dragoste. I-am spus: Eu nu cred ca eroii nu au deloc iubiti in vietile lor. Nu cred ca o minte omeneasca ar putea raman…"

-Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

8. Prison Baby: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jiang Stein

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman's struggles--beginning with her birth i… read more

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9. The Sabi

By: None

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

She does not know how, but has a sabi from her earliest memory that she was different. What she doe… read more

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10. Clearly, I Didn't Think This Through: The Story of One Tall Girl's Impulsive, Ill-Conceived, and Borderline Irresponsi ble Life Decisions

By: Anna Goldfarb

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Her Defense, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time... Although Anna Goldfarb is very tall, she … read more

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11. Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

By: Martha Manning

3.97

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

This is the memoir of an ordinary woman—a mother, a daughter, a psychologist, a wife—who tells the … read more

Similar categories in Martha Manning's Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it i…"

-Martha Manning, Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

12. Out on a Limb

By: Shirley MacLaine

4.39

Format: None pages,

U ovoj dojmljivoj i dirljivoj prici Shirley Maclaine poziva nas da je slijedimo na jedinstvenom put… read more

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13. A Kick-Ass Fairy

By: None

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to be a Kick-Ass Fairy? Looking for a fairy tale to make into a musical? Look som… read more

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14. Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

By: Neil Patrick Harris , None , None

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her fami… read more

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15. Education Of A Princess A Memoir By Marie, Grand Duchess Of Russia

By: None

3.87

Format: None pages,

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16. Welfare Brat

By: None

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

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Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

17. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

18. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaud's Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

19. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of A Forest of Doors: An Orphan's Quest by L.A. Muse

20. A Forest of Doors: An Orphan's Quest

By: L.A. Muse

4.02

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

About the A young child, orphaned by addiction and isolated from her siblings, dreams of reuniting… read more

Similar categories in L.A. Muse's A Forest of Doors: An Orphan's Quest book and Anchee Min's Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • memoir
Cover of Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin by Amber Rose Washington

21. Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin

By: Amber Rose Washington

4.01

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a warm, funny, educational, and very human story... a reminder that we are all just humans … read more

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3.87

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3.10

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4.17

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4.02

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5.00

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