7 must-read memoir books like We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe

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We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

By: Will Schwalbe

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov…

If you liked the memoir plot in We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Rediscovery of North America

By: Barry Lopez

4.11

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Hosea: Unfailing Love Changes Everything by Jennifer Rothschild

2. Hosea: Unfailing Love Changes Everything

By: Jennifer Rothschild

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

The book of Hosea-it's a deeply personal and passionate love story, yet it's a difficult story. As … read more

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  • nonfiction

3. American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

By: David Baron

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

"A timely tale of science and suspense." --Publishers Weekly(starred review) In the scorching summe… read more

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4. Crossing to Safety

By: Wallace Stegner

3.83

Format: 35 pages,

Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in "The Wa… read more

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5. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. 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

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  • 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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7. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

By: Ari Shapiro

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."

-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

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8. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

10. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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11. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

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  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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12. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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13. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Absolution by Alice McDermott

15. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1) by Danielle Arceneaux

16. Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)

By: Danielle Arceneaux

3.81

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the uncensored amateur sleuth G… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie  Smith

17. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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18. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

By: Will Schwalbe

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more

Similar categories in Will Schwalbe's We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship book and Will Schwalbe's We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret by Piper Huguley

19. By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

By: Piper Huguley

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The incredible untold story of Ann Lowe, Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress designer, a Black woman who… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • audiobook
"It took one person. One lady with a good heart to see who I was and what I could do in this world."

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"It has been many years since I let a man kiss me... When our lips met, parts of me that I had forgotten existed, thawed out from neglect and rose back to life like when Jesus was resurrected."

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in t…"

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thin…"

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

Cover of This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew by Daniel Wallace

20. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

By: Daniel Wallace

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York by Tom Roston

21. The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

By: Tom Roston

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable story of a restaurant on top of the world—built by a legend, destroyed in tragedy—an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook

17 best-selling audiobook books like We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

Ari Shapiro

4.05

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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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18 Best audiobook books like The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York by Tom Roston

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Lush Life

Richard Price

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Michael Finkel

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.46

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Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)

Danielle Arceneaux

3.81

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