10 Best nonfiction books like Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

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Enrique's Journey

By: Sonia Nazario

3.88

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy w…

"During that time, in between train rides, they sleep in trees or by the tracks, they drink from puddles, they beg for food."

-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

"During that time, in between train rides, they sleep in trees or by the tracks, they drink from puddles, they beg for food."

-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

"One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States."

-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

"One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States."

-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service by Ram Dass, Richard Alpert, Paul Gorman

1. How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service

By: Ram Dass , Richard Alpert , Paul Gorman

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Discover how giving of yourself can lead to some of the most joyous moments in your life—in a book … read more

Similar categories in Ram Dass's How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez

2. The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

By: Óscar Martínez

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexi… read more

Similar categories in Óscar Martínez's The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Saving Grace

By: Lee Smith

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Surrounded all of her life by zealous religious figures, Florida Grace Shepherd recounts a story th… read more

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4. Orleans

By: Sherri L. Smith

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

First came the storms. Then came the Fever. And the Wall. After a string of devastating hurricanes … read more

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5. Unaccompanied

By: Javier Zamora

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more

Similar categories in Javier Zamora's Unaccompanied book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. No Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits

By: Linda LeBlanc , Jordan Romero

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Jordan Romero climbed Mount Everest at age thirteen--and he didn't stop there. In this inspiring yo… read more

Similar categories in Linda LeBlanc's No Summit out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. The Line Becomes A River

By: Francisco Cantú

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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8. The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

By: Somaly Mam

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her gran… read more

Similar categories in Somaly Mam's The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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9. Lift Off

By: Melissa de la Cruz , Lamar Giles , Daniel José Older , Gene Luen Yang , Malinda Lo , Walter Dean Myers , Nicola Yoon , Eric Gansworth , Jason Reynolds , Sara Farizan , Thien Pham , None

3.64

Format: 192 pages,

The young adult anthology, Lift Off, is scheduled for release in Summer 2018 and will be edited by … read more

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10. A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America

By: Óscar Martínez , John B. Washington

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world El Salvador and Honduras have had the… read more

Similar categories in Óscar Martínez's A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

11. Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town

By: Warren St. John

4.22

Format: 224 pages,

The extraordinary story of a refugee football team and the transformation of a small American town.… read more

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12. Tiger, Tiger

By: Lynne Reid Banks

4.40

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a… read more

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13. The Memory of Light

By: Francisco X. Stork

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

16-year-old Vicky Cruz wakes up in a hospital's mental ward after a failed suicide attempt. Now she… read more

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14. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

By: Valeria Luiselli

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American chil… read more

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15. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

By: None

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westw… read more

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16. The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

By: Lauren Markham

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new… read more

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17. Enrique's Journey

By: Sonia Nazario

3.88

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy w… read more

Similar categories in Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • school
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • book club
"During that time, in between train rides, they sleep in trees or by the tracks, they drink from puddles, they beg for food."

-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

"One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States."

-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

"Lourdes has decided. She will leave. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year - less, with luck - or she will bring her children to be with her.…"

-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

18. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

By: Bandy X. Lee

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally … read more

Similar categories in Bandy X. Lee's The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

19. Finding Miracles

By: Julia Alvarez

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont--until she meets Pablo, a new stud… read more

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20. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

4.47

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” ―Ta-Nehisi Co… read more

Similar categories in Mehrsa Baradaran's The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap book and Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey

  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with b…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

"The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. The panic would not have affected the bank if i…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Cover of Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America by Steven Mayers

21. Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America

By: Steven Mayers

4.40

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita, (“Alone, Alone”… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

7 best-selling history books like Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

Óscar Martínez

4.26

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The Line Becomes A River

Francisco Cantú

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

Somaly Mam

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America

Óscar Martínez , John B. Washington

3.45

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Transform Your Habits

All the Real Indians Died off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , Dina Gilio-Whitaker

3.51

Transform Your Habits

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

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Enrique's Journey

Sonia Nazario

3.88

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We Are Displaced

Malala Yousafzai

4.41

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