10 must-read biography memoir books like Everyone But Myself by Julie Chavez

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Everyone But Myself

By: Julie Chavez

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Like so many mothers, Julie Chavez ran herself ragged trying to meet the needs of everyone else, un…

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1. Blank

By: Zibby Owens

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a… read more

Similar categories in Zibby Owens's Blank book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • audiobook
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2. 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 Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • 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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3. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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4. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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5. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • adult
  • 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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7. Everyone But Myself

By: Julie Chavez

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Like so many mothers, Julie Chavez ran herself ragged trying to meet the needs of everyone else, un… read more

Similar categories in Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leary's I've Tried Being Nice: Essays book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more

Similar categories in Emma Grey's The Last Love Note book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • adult
  • audiobook
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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11. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Mercury book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir

By: Brittany Means

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Brittany Means’s childhood was filled with abuse, neglect, violence, and instability, in part cause… read more

Similar categories in Brittany Means's Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

Similar categories in Susan Lieu's The Manicurist's Daughter book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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15. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Riordan Jarvis's End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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16. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lin's Here After book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art

By: Emily C. Bloom

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in m… read more

Similar categories in Emily C. Bloom's I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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18. Wedding Issues

By: Elle Evans

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Competition for a bridal magazine cover unleashes frenemy mayhem and family sparring in this hilari… read more

Similar categories in Elle Evans's Wedding Issues book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The House of Plain Truth

By: Donna Hemans

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A novel of fractured family and the search to protect–or discard–what unites them, this story trace… read more

Similar categories in Donna Hemans's The House of Plain Truth book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • audiobook
Cover of The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella

20. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Goodbye Process: Stories

By: Mary Jones

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A USA Today Bestseller “Short story fans might just discover their new favorite author in this a… read more

Similar categories in Mary Jones's The Goodbye Process: Stories book and Julie Chavez's Everyone But Myself

  • audiobook

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