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Books like A Moveable Feast
The best books like A Moveable Feast are Just Kids, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, and Bird by Bird. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway is about writing, paris, friendship. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Just Kids
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Patti Smith · Memoir
Just Kids is Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir of her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from their first meeting in New York in 1967 through their years of shared poverty, artistic development, and eventual celebrity, to Mapplethorpe's death from AIDS in 1989.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King · Memoir
On Writing is Stephen King's memoir of the writing life combined with a practical toolkit for writers.
Shares writing and craft with A Moveable Feast.
Read the summary → - Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott · Self-help
Bird by Bird is Anne Lamott's guide to writing and the creative life, grown from a course she taught at UC Davis and developed over years of writing novels, essays, and journalism.
Shares writing and craft with A Moveable Feast.
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- On Writing Well
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William Zinsser · Self-help
On Writing Well is William Zinsser's case that good nonfiction writing is not a talent you either have or don't, but a craft built on a small number of learnable principles — most of them reducible to the instruction to cut.
Shares writing and craft with A Moveable Feast.
Read the summary → - Born Standing Up
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Steve Martin · Memoir
Born Standing Up is Steve Martin's account of the decade-long grind that preceded his sudden, seemingly overnight fame as America's biggest stand-up comedian of the late 1970s.
Both dig into craft.
Read the summary → - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan · Memoir
Brain on Fire is Susannah Cahalan's account of the month she spent in a New York hospital in 2009, during which she experienced psychosis, paranoia, violent behavior, catatonia, and seizures — and was nearly committed to a psychiatric facility before a doctor correctly diagnosed her with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a newly described autoimmune disease in which the body attacks the brain.
Both dig into memory.
Read the summary → - Educated: A Memoir
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Tara Westover · Memoir
Educated is Tara Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD in history from Cambridge University.
Both dig into memory.
Read the summary → - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · Memoir
Kitchen Confidential began as an essay in The New Yorker in 1999.
Both dig into craft.
Read the summary → - Lab Girl
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Hope Jahren · Memoir
Lab Girl is Hope Jahren's memoir of becoming a scientist, told alongside a parallel account of plant biology that is one of the most original structural decisions in recent nonfiction.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - Life
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Keith Richards · Memoir
Keith Richards's Life was written with journalist James Fox and published when Richards was 66, after more than fifty years with the Rolling Stones.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - Night
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Elie Wiesel · Memoir
Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his deportation from the Transylvanian town of Sighet in 1944 and his survival of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Both dig into memory.
Read the summary → - Special Deluxe
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Neil Young · Memoir
Special Deluxe is Neil Young's second memoir — a follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace (2012) — and it is organized around a peculiar structural conceit: Young uses each car he has owned over his lifetime as a chapter marker, and each vehicle serves as a portal to the memories of that period.
Both dig into memory.
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Books like A Moveable Feast: quick answers
What are the best books like A Moveable Feast?
The best books like A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway are Just Kids by Patti Smith, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, On Writing Well by William Zinsser, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with A Moveable Feast, such as writing, paris, friendship.
What should I read after A Moveable Feast?
A natural next read after A Moveable Feast is Just Kids by Patti Smith. Both dig into friendship. Other strong choices are On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, On Writing Well by William Zinsser.
What books are similar to A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway?
A Moveable Feast centers on writing, paris, friendship. Books with a similar feel include Just Kids by Patti Smith, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, On Writing Well by William Zinsser, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
