5 Top memoir books like Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage by Helen Ellis

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Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

By: Helen Ellis

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New…

If you liked the memoir plot in Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage by Helen Ellis , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. 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 Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • 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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2. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • memoir
  • humor
  • marriage
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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3. Amazing Grace Adams

By: Fran Littlewood

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more

Similar categories in Fran Littlewood's Amazing Grace Adams book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • humor
  • audiobook
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4. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • romance
  • audiobook
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5. The Celebrants

By: Steven Rowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • humor
  • audiobook
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

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6. No Two Persons

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.09

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s N… read more

Similar categories in Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • short stories
  • audiobook
"All that matters is that we try. pg. 79"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Guilt is easier to drown in than any sorrow. pg. 245"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Always start with words. Words last. Tell me a secret from your day."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Did you know that otters sleep holding hands? All night long, so they don't lose each other."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

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7. Watch Us Shine

By: Marisa de los Santos

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Bring me the Northern Lights.” Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when… read more

Similar categories in Marisa de los Santos's Watch Us Shine book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • audiobook
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8. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Passarella's It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

Cover of Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage by Helen Ellis

9. Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

By: Helen Ellis

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New… read more

Similar categories in Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • romance
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • marriage
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • marriage
  • 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

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11. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • memoir
  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

12. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • romance
  • humor
  • audiobook
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13. The Museum of Ordinary People

By: Mike Gayle

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever… read more

Similar categories in Mike Gayle's The Museum of Ordinary People book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • romance
  • audiobook
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14. April May June July

By: Alison B. Hart

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all … read more

Similar categories in Alison B. Hart's April May June July book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • audiobook
Cover of Congratulations, the Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas

15. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Congratulations, the Best is Over! book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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16. Summer Stage

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A spirited summer page-turner following a family of actors grappling with fame, scandal, and ambiti… read more

Similar categories in Meg Mitchell Moore's Summer Stage book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • romance
  • audiobook
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17. Girls and Their Horses

By: Eliza Jane Brazier

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cut… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Jane Brazier's Girls and Their Horses book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • audiobook
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18. Late Bloomers

By: Deepa Varadarajan

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into the… read more

Similar categories in Deepa Varadarajan's Late Bloomers book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • romance
  • humor
  • audiobook
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19. If We're Being Honest

By: Cat Shook

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s deb… read more

Similar categories in Cat Shook's If We're Being Honest book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • humor
  • audiobook
"As it turns out porn does not automatically make a computer implode."

-Cat Shook, If We're Being Honest

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20. When the Vibe Is Right

By: Sarah Dass

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Where the Rhythm Takes You comes a delightful enemies-to-lovers contemporary rom… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dass's When the Vibe Is Right book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Please Grow: Lessons on Thriving for Plants (and People) by Alex Testere

21. Please Grow: Lessons on Thriving for Plants (and People)

By: Alex Testere

4.32

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Discover the life lessons plants can teach you—from the importance of putting down roots to leaning… read more

Similar categories in Alex Testere's Please Grow: Lessons on Thriving for Plants (and People) book and Helen Ellis's Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

  • nonfiction

20 Best audiobook books like Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage by Helen Ellis

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Amazing Grace Adams

Fran Littlewood

3.35

Transform Your Habits

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

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21 Best audiobook books like How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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