Books like Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
12 books with a reading profile close to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
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When All Is Said
by Anne Griffin
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative
Maurice Hannigan, an elderly Irish farmer, sits in a pub in a small town one evening and orders five drinks, one for each person who has been important in his life.
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Just Kids
by Patti Smith
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Just Kids chronicles the relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, beginning with their chance meeting in Brooklyn in 1967.
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Priestdaddy
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
William Finnegan chronicles his lifelong obsession with surfing, moving from his childhood in California and Hawaii to his global travels as an adult.
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Yossarian slept here
by Erica Heller
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Erica Heller’s memoir documents her upbringing as the daughter of Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, within the Apthorp apartment building in Manhattan.
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Truth & Beauty
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative
Ann Patchett narrates the decades-long friendship between herself and the writer Lucy Grealy, beginning at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative
James McBride alternates between his own upbringing in a Brooklyn housing project and the oral history of his mother, Ruth Jordan.
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
Also contemplative · memoir, narrative
Kate Beaton chronicles her time working manual labor jobs at remote mining camps in northern Alberta to pay off her student loans.
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Wat ik nooit eerder heb gezegd
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative
Set in 1970s Ohio, the narrative begins with the death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a mixed-race couple.
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Carrie Brownstein chronicles her development from a fan in the Pacific Northwest underground music scene to the guitarist of Sleater-Kinney.
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Chronicles, Volume One
by Bob Dylan
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative
Bob Dylan sidesteps the traditional chronological life story to focus on three specific periods of his career: his 1961 arrival in Greenwich Village, the 1970 recording sessions for New Morning, and the 1989 production…
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