7 Top memoir books like Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) by Lorna Crozier

Cover of Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) by Lorna Crozier

Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

By: Lorna Crozier

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Globe and Mail 100 Best BookFinalist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionFinalist, …

If you liked the memoir plot in Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) by Lorna Crozier , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) by Jane Gardam

1. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

Similar categories in Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

Cover of Old Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood

2. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Old Babes in the Wood: Stories book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Many things get broken in a war."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Cover of Splinters by Leslie Jamison

3. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Postcard by Anne Berest

4. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

Similar categories in Anne Berest's The Postcard book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • audiobook
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

5. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

6. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
Cover of Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley

7. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Cover of The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

8. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The White Lady book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • audiobook
"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

Cover of A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

9. A Town Called Solace

By: Mary Lawson

4.02

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radian… read more

Similar categories in Mary Lawson's A Town Called Solace book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Here's a truth about marriage, he thought, staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. People should be warned: think twice before you take those vows, because there is nothing, absolutely nothin…"

-Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace

Cover of The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan

10. The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's The Queen of Dirt Island book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • audiobook
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

Cover of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

11. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

12. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

13. What Strange Paradise

By: Omar El Akkad

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more

Similar categories in Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

Cover of Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi

14. Butter Honey Pig Bread

By: Francesca Ekwuyasi

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tel… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Ekwuyasi's Butter Honey Pig Bread book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Death is only a doorway."

-Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread

Cover of The Fake by Zoe Whittall

15. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

Similar categories in Zoe Whittall's The Fake book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

Cover of Fayne: A Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald

16. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

Similar categories in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fayne: A Novel book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

Cover of Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay

17. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of One for the Rock (Sebastian Synard Mysteries #1) by Kevin Major

18. One for the Rock (Sebastian Synard Mysteries #1)

By: Kevin Major

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Sebastian Synard doesn’t want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of to… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Major's One for the Rock (Sebastian Synard Mysteries #1) book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) by Lorna Crozier

19. Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

By: Lorna Crozier

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Globe and Mail 100 Best BookFinalist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionFinalist, … read more

Similar categories in Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Colony by Audrey Magee

20. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Magee's The Colony book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • audiobook
Cover of The Strangers by Katherena Vermette

21. The Strangers

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 336 pages, None

From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Strangers book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."

-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers

Cover of Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team by Elise Hooper

22. Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team

By: Elise Hooper

3.88

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

“Fast Girls is a compelling, thrilling look at what it takes to be a female Olympian in pre-war Ame… read more

Similar categories in Elise Hooper's Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • audiobook
Cover of Permanent Astonishment by Tomson Highway

23. Permanent Astonishment

By: Tomson Highway

4.20

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more

Similar categories in Tomson Highway's Permanent Astonishment book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac

24. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

Similar categories in Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Mindful of Murder by Susan Juby

25. Mindful of Murder

By: Susan Juby

3.64

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Helen Thorpe. She’s smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butle… read more

Similar categories in Susan Juby's Mindful of Murder book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of An Old, Cold Grave (Lane Winslow #3) by Iona Whishaw

26. An Old, Cold Grave (Lane Winslow #3)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The third book in the popular Lane Winslow mystery series by an author the Globe and Mail has calle… read more

Similar categories in Iona Whishaw's An Old, Cold Grave (Lane Winslow #3) book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Picture in the Sand by Peter Blauner

27. Picture in the Sand

By: Peter Blauner

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandf… read more

Similar categories in Peter Blauner's Picture in the Sand book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • audiobook
Cover of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

28. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

By: Kyo Maclear

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more

Similar categories in Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

Cover of When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation by Tara Sidhoo Fraser

29. When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation

By: Tara Sidhoo Fraser

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tar… read more

Similar categories in Tara Sidhoo Fraser's When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
Cover of Grappling Hook by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang

30. Grappling Hook

By: Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang

4.70

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Taking its title from Tomas Tranströmer, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang’s Grappling Hook sifts the debris of t… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang's Grappling Hook book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • poetry
Cover of Undersong by Kathleen Winter

31. Undersong

By: Kathleen Winter

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." — Toronto Star From Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Winter's Undersong book and Lorna Crozier's Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)

  • poetry
  • canada
  • audiobook

27 best-selling audiobook books like Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) by Lorna Crozier

Transform Your Habits

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Postcard

Anne Berest

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

View all the books

20 must-read fiction books like Fayne: A Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.