Books like Bird by Bird
12 books with a reading profile close to Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Notes on Grief
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Scheherezade Surià
Also inward-looking · memoir, inspirational
In this expanded essay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie documents the immediate aftermath of her father’s sudden death in Nigeria during the summer of 2020.
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84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible
In 1949, Helene Hanff, a struggling screenwriter in New York City, contacted Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop in London, to track down rare British literature.
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3
Solutions and Other Problems
by Allie Brosh
Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible
Allie Brosh uses crude digital illustrations and humorous vignettes to document her life after a long public absence.
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4
Dear Fahrenheit 451
by Annie Spence
memoir, accessible
Libarian Annie Spence writes specific, direct letters to the physical books she has encountered throughout her career and personal life.
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5
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist born with physical vulnerabilities, lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation where poverty and alcoholism are pervasive.
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible
The collection compiles fiction and non-fiction written by Marina Keegan before her death just days after graduating from Yale.
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7
Beautiful Country
Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible
Qian Julie Wang was seven when she and her parents left China for New York in 1994, where her mother and father, a former professor and a professional, became undocumented workers.
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8
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
practical, memoir
Stephen King divides this volume into a personal history and a technical manual for prose.
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Dry
Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible
Following his success in the Manhattan advertising world, Augusten Burroughs faces an ultimatum from his employers: attend rehabilitation or lose his job.
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Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body
Also inward-looking · memoir, inspirational
In January 1988, twelve-year-old Martin Pistorius fell ill with an undiagnosed brain infection that left him in a vegetative state.
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The Stranger in the Lifeboat
by Mitch Albom
Also inward-looking · inspirational, accessible
After a luxury yacht explodes in the Atlantic Ocean, ten survivors crowd into a small life raft, battling thirst, hunger, and hopelessness.
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12
The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
Also inward-looking · inspirational, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Adunni lives in a rural Nigerian village where her father sells her into marriage to a local polygamist to pay the rent.
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