12 must-read nonfiction books like Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm

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Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

By: Janet Malcolm

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles…

"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Don't Look at Me Like That

By: Diana Athill

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectabl… read more

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2. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Janet Malcolm's Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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3. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

By: Janet Malcolm

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles… read more

Similar categories in Janet Malcolm's Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory book and Janet Malcolm's Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • female authors
  • photography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • journalism
"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

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4. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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5. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

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6. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

Similar categories in Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading book and Janet Malcolm's Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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7. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

By: Benjamin Taylor

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant explorati… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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9. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • photography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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10. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • art
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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11. Our Strangers: Stories

By: Lydia Davis

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more

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12. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

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13. After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more

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14. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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15. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Janet Malcolm's Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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16. Affinities: On Art and Fascination

By: Brian Dillon

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine aur… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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17. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Light Room

By: Kate Zambreno

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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19. The Intimate City: Walking New York

By: Michael Kimmelman

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“‘ The Intimate City ’ is a joyful miscellany of people seeing things in the urban landscape, the s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. The Story Game

By: Shze-Hui Tjoa

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cos… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. La obligación de ser genial

By: Betina González

4.34

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

La obligación de ser genial es un pasaje a la central de operaciones de uno de los proyectos más pe… read more

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  • nonfiction

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3.88

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4.02

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4.34

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