6 best-selling memoir books like Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg

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Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi…

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1. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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3. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

By: James L. Swanson

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's Lucky book and Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

By: Shannon Reed

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"Life is so much better with books than without."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

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6. The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President

By: Edward F. O'Keefe

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift

9. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

By: Earl Swift

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more

Similar categories in Earl Swift's Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery book and Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg

10. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York book and Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

  • literary fiction
  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by C. Alexander Hortis

11. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

By: C. Alexander Hortis

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America by Therese Oneill

12. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

By: Therese Oneill

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."

-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

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13. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs

14. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

16. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow

17. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

By: Julie Satow

4.06

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visio… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love by Marcia A. Zug

18. You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

By: Marcia A. Zug

3.75

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

An illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The social and cultural preference for marriage has obvious negative effects for single people, but it also harms the married. A desire to retain marriage's preferential status is on of the most cite…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

"As marriage became "proof" of black respectability, this induced many freedmen and women to marry, but it also encouraged the black community to exert pressure on those who resisted..."The colored pe…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

"Black men had fewer opportunities to become wealthy and were specifically encourages, often by the US government, to look to marriage, rather than wealth, as a source of social status. The government…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

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19. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

By: Michael Wolraich

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

20. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

21. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

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Casey Sherman

3.71

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Erik Larson

4.24

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James L. Swanson

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Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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Griffin Dunne

4.19

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Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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Anna Akbari

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