8 must-read memoir books like Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller

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Travel Light, Move Fast

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and…

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Cover of The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji

1. The Book of Secrets

By: M.G. Vassanji

3.51

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room … read more

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  • africa
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2. Rascal

By: John Schoenherr , Sterling North

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a … read more

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3. The Last Gift

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went b… read more

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  • africa
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4. Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

By: Bernd Heinrich

3.79

Format: 128 pages,

From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning by Claire Dederer

5. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

By: Claire Dederer

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocio… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. Skating to Antarctica

By: Jenny Diski

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

'This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut w… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

7. Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa

By: Peter Godwin

3.43

Format: 42 pages,

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8. Ghana Must Go

By: Taiye Selasi

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his … read more

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9. The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe

By: Douglas Rogers

4.33

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resortis a remarkable true story … read more

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10. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa

By: Peter Godwin

3.57

Format: 432 pages,

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11. Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta

By: None

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he w… read more

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12. Travel Light, Move Fast

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and… read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • zimbabwe
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • zambia
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13. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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14. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

By: Karen Valby

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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15. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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16. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
"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

Cover of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Daniel Finkelstein

17. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. Liberty's Daughter

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more

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Cover of The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton

19. The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

By: Lisa M. Hamilton

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, a deeply reported drama ranging from the mist-c… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson

20. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

By: Olivia Williams

3.61

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

10 Best nonfiction books like Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller

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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

Bernd Heinrich

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

Claire Dederer

3.69

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Skating to Antarctica

Jenny Diski

4.20

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Alexandra Fuller

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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

Nicholas Shakespeare

4.09

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

Michael Palin

4.17

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