Books like Relato de un náufrago
12 books with a reading profile close to Relato de un náufrago by Gabriel García Márquez. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Blue Highways
memoir, narrative
After losing his teaching job and his marriage in the same day, William Least Heat-Moon outfitted a Ford Econoline van to navigate the United States exclusively via backroads—the thin blue lines on old Rand McNally maps.
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
by Eve Babitz
memoir, narrative
Eve Babitz presents ten interconnected narratives that document the sensory landscape of Southern California in the 1960s and 1970s.
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3
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
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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4
Yossarian slept here
by Erica Heller
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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5
Down and Out in Paris and London
memoir, narrative
George Orwell’s 1933 memoir chronicles his deliberate descent into poverty within two European capitals.
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6
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
memoir, narrative
Gabrielle Hamilton chronicles her unconventional path from a chaotic childhood in rural Pennsylvania to owning Prune, a tiny, celebrated restaurant in New York City.
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8
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
memoir, narrative
Edmund de Waal traces a collection of 264 netsuke—tiny Japanese ivory and wood carvings—to reconstruct his ancestors’ history.
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9
Priestdaddy
memoir, narrative
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
memoir, narrative
Alexandra Fuller outlines her upbringing in 1970s and 80s Rhodesia, Malawi, and Zambia during a period of violent decolonization.
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11
Chronicles, Volume One
by Bob Dylan
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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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
memoir, narrative
In 1960, John Steinbeck drove a custom-built camper truck named Rocinante across nearly forty states to reconnect with the country he felt he no longer understood.
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