15 Best memoir books like There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir by Emma Espiner

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There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo…

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1. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • adult
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2. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Shaw's The Bookseller at the End of the World book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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3. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • indigenous
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
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4. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

Similar categories in Coco Solid's How to Loiter in a Turf War book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • indigenous
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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5. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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  • adult
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6. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

Similar categories in Sam Neill's Did I Ever Tell You This? book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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7. Straight Up

By: Ruby Tui

4.38

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"

-Ruby Tui, Straight Up

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8. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

Similar categories in Josie Shapiro's Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • adult
  • mental health
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9. One of Them

By: Shaneel Lal

4.27

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning, heart-breaking yet defiant memoir by activist, model and social media sensation Shaneel… read more

Similar categories in Shaneel Lal's One of Them book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Religious leaders liberate themselves from their history of repeated anti-queer actions every time there is a new debate on queer rights. They get a clean slate even thought their hands are muddied w…"

-Shaneel Lal, One of Them

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10. Second Chances: Facing My Demons and Finding a Better Me

By: Hayley Holt

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A raw and honest story of alcoholism, recovery and courage in the face of loss Hayley Holt grew… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Holt's Second Chances: Facing My Demons and Finding a Better Me book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. Poor People With Money

By: Dominic Hoey

4.03

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale f… read more

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12. One of Those Mothers

By: Megan Nicol Reed

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasi… read more

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13. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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14. Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days

By: Victoria Bruce

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

“I’m here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no m… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Bruce's Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. The Doctor's Wife

By: Fiona Sussman

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in t… read more

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16. Amma

By: Saraid de Silva

4.45

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more

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17. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter

By: Noelle McCarthy

4.13

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more

Similar categories in Noelle McCarthy's Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. Kāwai For Such A Time As This

By: Monty Soutar

4.16

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it’s never… read more

Similar categories in Monty Soutar's Kāwai For Such A Time As This book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • indigenous
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19. The Bone Tree

By: Airana Ngarewa

3.71

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more

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20. Cult Trip: Inside the world of Coercion and Control

By: Anke Richter

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A leading journalist's intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cu… read more

Similar categories in Anke Richter's Cult Trip: Inside the world of Coercion and Control book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
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21. The Drinking Game

By: Guyon Espiner

4.39

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

An incisive analysis of how our drinking culture is influenced by the government, media and big bus… read more

Similar categories in Guyon Espiner's The Drinking Game book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. The Last Secret Agent

By: Pippa Latour

4.55

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary untold story of Pippa Latour, who parachuted into occupied France in 1944 as an u… read more

Similar categories in Pippa Latour's The Last Secret Agent book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story

By: Jools Topp

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The iconic Kiwi duo - comedians, country music stars, yodellers, lesbians - in their own words. … read more

Similar categories in Jools Topp's Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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24. When I Open the Shop

By: romesh dissanayake

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothin… read more

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25. Dice

By: Claire Baylis

3.86

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is vi… read more

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26. Bookshop Dogs

By: Ruth Shaw

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Heartwarming and charming stories of dogs and books from the bestselling author of The Bookseller a… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Shaw's Bookshop Dogs book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. Excommunicated: A multigenerational story of leaving the Exclusive Bretheren

By: Craig Hoyle

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren and… read more

Similar categories in Craig Hoyle's Excommunicated: A multigenerational story of leaving the Exclusive Bretheren book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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28. Laughing at the Dark

By: Barbara Else

4.30

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling and acclaimed author Barbara Else, Laughing at the Dark is a funny, moving me… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Else's Laughing at the Dark book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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29. On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

By: Ineke Meredith

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon. The world of surgery is str… read more

Similar categories in Ineke Meredith's On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. The Life of Dai

By: Dai Henwood

4.43

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving and profoundly uplifting story about living with joy, even in the face of adversity… read more

Similar categories in Dai Henwood's The Life of Dai book and Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. All That We Know

By: Shilo Kino

4.61

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard l… read more

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