Books like Travels with Charley: In Search of America
12 books with a reading profile close to Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Shantaram
memoir, narrative
Lin Ford, a convicted bank robber, escapes an Australian prison and flees to Mumbai, India, where he reinvents himself within the city’s complex social tiers.
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2
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
memoir, narrative
Ruth Reichl’s memoir tracks her development from a child navigating her mother’s dangerous kitchen to a professional restaurant critic.
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3
Beautiful Country
memoir, narrative
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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4
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
memoir, narrative
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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5
Persepolis, Volume 1
memoir, narrative
Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel chronicles her childhood in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
memoir, narrative
Nora Ephron examines the physical humiliations and domestic frustrations of aging, focusing on the specific maintenance required to camouflage a sagging neck.
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7
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
narrative, accessible
In 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson returns to his foreclosed Nebraska farm after serving time at a juvenile work farm for involuntary manslaughter.
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8
West With Giraffes
narrative, accessible
In 1938, a hurricane strikes the New York harbor, leaving two young giraffes stranded on the docks.
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9
Uncommon Type
by Tom Hanks
narrative, accessible
Tom Hanks's debut book of fiction contains seventeen stories, each in some way featuring a typewriter, whether as the object at the centre or just in passing.
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10
JUNGLEKEEPER
by Paul Rosolie
memoir, narrative
Paul Rosolie recounts his experiences living within the deep Amazon basin, focusing on the immediate realities of rainforest conservation.
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11
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
memoir, narrative
The collection compiles fiction and non-fiction written by Marina Keegan before her death just days after graduating from Yale.
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12
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
narrative, accessible
Nikki, a young British-Punjabi woman, accepts a job teaching creative writing to a group of Sikh widows in Southall, London.
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