11 Best biography memoir books like My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir by Vanessa Schneider

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My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir

By: Vanessa Schneider

3.67

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A spare, heartbreaking memoir and tribute to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulte…

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1. Inferno (A Poet's Novel)

By: Eileen Myles

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

"All the lesbian intimacy you've yet to find on OKCupid can be found in this book." -- Lambda Liter… read more

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  • feminism
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2. White Girls

By: Hilton Als

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Womenfourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. The Falls

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself in… read more

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4. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the g… read more

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5. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • audiobook
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

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6. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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7. Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

By: Carl Sferrazza Anthony

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” — The Washington Post An illumi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
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8. Dearborn

By: Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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  • biography
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir

By: Vanessa Schneider

3.67

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A spare, heartbreaking memoir and tribute to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulte… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
  • audiobook
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14. Le coeur sur la table: Pour une révolution romantique

By: Victoire Tuaillon

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Après Les Couilles sur la table, place au Cœur sur la table, le nouveau livre de Victoire Tuaillon,… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • france
Cover of No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson

15. No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood

By: Erin Carlson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own —one of the most beloved basebal… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • audiobook
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16. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Nonfiction

By: Julie Myerson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more

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18. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles

19. For Now (Why I Write)

By: Eileen Myles

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. Wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

By: Jean-Paul Dubois

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Narrated by a man held for an unknown crime in a Montreal prison, this novel was the winner of the … read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"Ils croyaient qu’un jour ou l’autre, cela arriverait, parce qu’ils avaient attendu toute une vie pour cela et qu’ils pensaient le mériter. Muss es sein? Es muss sein."

-Jean-Paul Dubois, Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

"El encierro tiene un olor desagradable. Al hedor de los malos pensamientos macerándose, a los efluvios de las ideas malintencionadas que rondan por todas partes y al relente rancio de las viejas añor…"

-Jean-Paul Dubois, Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

"Je vous demande alors de conserver à l’esprit cette phrase toute simple que je tiens de mon père et qu’il utilisait pour minorer les fautes de chacun : “Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la …"

-Jean-Paul Dubois, Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

"J'étais bien. Je regardais les miens. Je pouvais sentir battre leur cœur et respirer leur souffle. Auprès d'eux je me sentais en paix. J'avais le sentiment qu'ils protégeaient ma vie, tous les trois …"

-Jean-Paul Dubois, Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

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21. Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones

By: Elizabeth Winder

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Discover the true story of the four women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help shape and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

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"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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23. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

By: Ian Penman

4.02

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • film
"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."

-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

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24. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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25. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Robert Greenfield

26. True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times

By: Robert Greenfield

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sa… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • film
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27. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

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  • feminism
Cover of There Are Dads Way Worse Than You: Unimpeachable Evidence of Your Excellence as a Father by Glenn Boozan

28. There Are Dads Way Worse Than You: Unimpeachable Evidence of Your Excellence as a Father

By: Glenn Boozan

4.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Remind dad that he’s doing a great job (at least compared to the likes of pop culture and historica… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

29. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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30. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

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  • audiobook
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31. À son image

By: Jérôme Ferrari

3.71

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Ce somptueux roman en forme de requiem pour une photographe défunte est aussi l’occasion d’évoquer … read more

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  • france

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Transform Your Habits

Triste tigre

Neige Sinno

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Dearborn

Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

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Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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