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Books like Crying in H Mart
The best books like Crying in H Mart are When Breath Becomes Air, Educated: A Memoir, and Know My Name: A Memoir. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner is about grief, identity, food and culture. 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.
- When Breath Becomes Air
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Paul Kalanithi · Memoir
When Breath Becomes Air is Paul Kalanithi's account of his life before and after being diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at 36, while completing his residency in neurosurgery at Stanford.
Both dig into identity.
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 identity.
Read the summary → - Know My Name: A Memoir
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Chanel Miller · Memoir
Know My Name is Chanel Miller's memoir of being sexually assaulted behind a dumpster at Stanford University in 2015, being identified publicly as only "Emily Doe" throughout the subsequent trial, and the experience of navigating a legal process while the perpetrator — Stanford swimmer Brock Turner — became the more visible subject of the story.
Both dig into identity.
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- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah · Memoir
Born a Crime is Trevor Noah's memoir about growing up mixed-race in South Africa during the final years of apartheid and its chaotic aftermath.
Both dig into belonging.
Read the summary → - Between the World and Me
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Ta-Nehisi Coates · Memoir
Between the World and Me is a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son, Samori, about what it means to live in a Black body in the United States.
Both dig into identity.
Read the summary → - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · Memoir
Dave Eggers's debut memoir about losing both parents to cancer within five weeks and raising his younger brother Toph while trying to start a literary magazine in San Francisco in the mid-1990s arrived in 2000 with unusual self-consciousness about its own nature.
Shares grief and identity with Crying in H Mart.
Read the summary → - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Suleika Jaouad · Memoir
Suleika Jaouad was twenty-two and newly graduated, living in Paris with her first real job and a boyfriend, when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
Shares identity and belonging with Crying in H Mart.
Read the summary → - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama · Memoir
Barack Obama wrote Dreams from My Father in 1995, before entering politics, after being elected the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Shares identity and belonging with Crying in H Mart.
Read the summary → - Out of Africa
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Isak Dinesen · Memoir
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of the seventeen years she spent running a coffee farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi, from 1914 to 1931.
Shares identity and belonging with Crying in H Mart.
Read the summary → - Spare
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex · Memoir
Spare is Prince Harry's account of his life from childhood through his decision to step back from senior royal duties in 2020.
Shares grief and identity with Crying in H Mart.
Read the summary → - The Tender Bar: A Memoir
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J. R. Moehringer · Memoir
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Shares identity and belonging with Crying in H Mart.
Read the summary → - The Inheritance Games
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes · Mystery
When broke teenager Avery Grambs is named the sole heir to billionaire Tobias Hawthorne's multi-billion-dollar estate, she has no idea why.
Shares identity and belonging with Crying in H Mart.
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Books like Crying in H Mart: quick answers
What are the best books like Crying in H Mart?
The best books like Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner are When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Crying in H Mart, such as grief, identity, food and culture.
What should I read after Crying in H Mart?
A natural next read after Crying in H Mart is When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Both dig into identity. Other strong choices are Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah.
What books are similar to Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner?
Crying in H Mart centers on grief, identity, food and culture. Books with a similar feel include When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
