21 must-read nonfiction books like Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination by Stephanie Clare Smith

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Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination

By: Stephanie Clare Smith

4.43

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination by Stephanie Clare Smith , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

1. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

By: Mary Roach

4.36

Format: 352 pages,

"Equal parts Groucho Marx & Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening & entertaining."--Sunday Denver Po… read more

Similar categories in Mary Roach's Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife book and Stephanie Clare Smith's Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination

  • nonfiction
Cover of A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey Sherman

2. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

3. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

4. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

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"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Cover of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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6. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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7. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

8. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination by Stephanie Clare Smith

11. Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination

By: Stephanie Clare Smith

4.43

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Clare Smith's Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination book and Stephanie Clare Smith's Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir by Farah Naz Rishi

12. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

By: Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

13. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer, Better Life by Dan Buettner

14. The Blue Zones Challenge: A 4-Week Plan for a Longer, Better Life

By: Dan Buettner

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

In this companion to the number one New York Times bestseller The Blue Zones Kitchen, Dan Buettner … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa

15. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

Cover of Devout: A Memoir of Doubt by Anna Gazmarian

16. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

By: Anna Gazmarian

3.63

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica  Potts

17. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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18. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of In the Shadow of the Greenbrier by Emily Matchar

19. In the Shadow of the Greenbrier

By: Emily Matchar

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga inspired by remarkable, yet little-known, true even… read more

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Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

20. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Cover of The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith

21. The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating … read more

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Cover of The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church

22. The Girls We Sent Away

By: Meagan Church

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“[A]n important and vital story. With exquisite writing, Church exposes a murky little pocket of hi… read more

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Cover of A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles     Spencer

23. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's A Very Private School: A Memoir book and Stephanie Clare Smith's Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Manicurist's Daughter by Susan Lieu

24. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

25. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang

26. A Map for the Missing

By: Belinda Huijuan Tang

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A M… read more

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Cover of College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight by Shawn Cohen

27. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

By: Shawn Cohen

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words by April Simpkins

28. By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words

By: April Simpkins

4.18

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir by Nina St. Pierre

29. Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir

By: Nina St. Pierre

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mo… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Last Word (A Deadly Deadlines Mystery) by Gerri Lewis

30. The Last Word (A Deadly Deadlines Mystery)

By: Gerri Lewis

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An obituary writer finds one of her neighbors dead before her time in this debut cozy mystery perfe… read more

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16 Best memoir books like Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination by Stephanie Clare Smith

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Margaret Renkl

4.37

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

4.10

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Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination

Stephanie Clare Smith

4.43

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Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

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Katherine Arden

4.02

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Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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Shubnum Khan

3.87

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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