18 Best memoir books like When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

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When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood…

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Cover of Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles by Kate  Flannery

1. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

By: Kate Flannery

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more

Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

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

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

3. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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5. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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7. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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8. American Girls

By: Jessica Roy

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, deeply reported narrative about religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Roy's American Girls book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson

9. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

By: Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lynn Paulson's Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

10. Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more

Similar categories in Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

Cover of Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir by Alexandra Auder

11. Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir

By: Alexandra Auder

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordi… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Auder's Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

12. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir by Beth Nguyen

13. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir

By: Beth Nguyen

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more

Similar categories in Beth Nguyen's Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

14. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more

Similar categories in Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica  Potts

15. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

Similar categories in Monica Potts's The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

Cover of Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière

16. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

Similar categories in Alice Carrière's Everything/Nothing/Someone book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle  Dowd

17. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

By: Michelle Dowd

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories by Sarah Viren

18. To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories

By: Sarah Viren

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unfor… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Viren's To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

19. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Stille's The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

20. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Omega Farm: A Memoir by Martha McPhee

21. Omega Farm: A Memoir

By: Martha McPhee

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist—a candid, riveting account of her complicated,… read more

Similar categories in Martha McPhee's Omega Farm: A Memoir book and Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

21 must-read audiobook books like When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

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Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

Kate Flannery

3.67

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

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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21 Best audiobook books like Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

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Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

4.02

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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