6 Top autobiography books like Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron

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Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

By: Delia Ephron

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif…

If you liked the autobiography plot in Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • audiobook
  • death
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2. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • romance
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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3. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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4. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • new york
  • audiobook
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5. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • romance
  • audiobook
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6. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • new york
  • audiobook
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7. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • audiobook
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8. French Braid

By: Anne Tyler

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more

Similar categories in Anne Tyler's French Braid book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • audiobook
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9. These Precious Days: Essays

By: Ann Patchett

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's These Precious Days: Essays book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

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10. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

By: Nina Totenberg

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal succes… read more

Similar categories in Nina Totenberg's Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

By: Molly Shannon

4.13

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption b… read more

Similar categories in Molly Shannon's Hello, Molly!: A Memoir book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"

-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

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12. Signal Fires

By: Dani Shapiro

3.91

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more

Similar categories in Dani Shapiro's Signal Fires book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • audiobook
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

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13. Rough Draft: A Memoir

By: Katy Tur

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From MSNBC anchor and New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur, a sharp and candid memoir about a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Tur's Rough Draft: A Memoir book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron

14. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

By: Delia Ephron

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more

Similar categories in Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • romance
  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom

15. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Amy Bloom

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more

Similar categories in Amy Bloom's In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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17. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

18. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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19. The Beauty of Dusk

By: Frank Bruni

4.06

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir abo… read more

Similar categories in Frank Bruni's The Beauty of Dusk book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. This Time Tomorrow

By: Emma Straub

3.80

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, belo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • audiobook
"This time tomorrow, where will we be?"

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Forward, that was the idea. Until the future, whatever it was going to be."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"It's not about the time. It's about how you spend it. Where you put your energy."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

Cover of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott

21. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

By: Mary Laura Philpott

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more

Similar categories in Mary Laura Philpott's Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives book and Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

21 Best audiobook books like Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Latecomer

Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

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21 best-selling audiobook books like In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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