6 best-selling nonfiction books like Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • family
  • death
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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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • 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. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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4. 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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • family
  • 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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5. The Wives: A Memoir

By: Simone Gorrindo

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more

Similar categories in Simone Gorrindo's The Wives: A Memoir book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental illness
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental illness
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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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8. 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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • family
  • 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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9. The Days I Loved You Most

By: Amy Neff

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Unforgettable and utterly romantic, The Days I Loved You Most is a heart-wrenching, life-affirming … read more

Similar categories in Amy Neff's The Days I Loved You Most book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • family
  • audiobook
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10. Women and Children First

By: Alina Grabowski

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more

Similar categories in Alina Grabowski's Women and Children First book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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13. 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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • family
  • 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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14. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • family
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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18. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

Similar categories in Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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19. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • adult
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen   Fisher

21. Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

By: Helen Fisher

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community a… read more

Similar categories in Helen Fisher's Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life book and Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You?

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • death
"Instead of fearing a thing, try to understand it. Because understanding can change everything about the way that you feel."

-Helen Fisher, Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

19 must-read adult books like Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Between Two Trailers

J. Dana Trent

3.65

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21 best-selling fiction books like Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren

4.14

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