11 Top nonfiction books like Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir by Liz Levine

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Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir

By: Liz Levine

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A genuinely moving, funny, and inventive account of loss and grief, mental illness and suicide, fro…

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1. The Illustrated Man

By: Ray Bradbury

4.13

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to … read more

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"Oh, death in space was most humorous."

-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."

-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?"

-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

"Nothing ever likes to die--not even a room. (p.23 --> The Veldt)"

-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

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2. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #10)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe … read more

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3. Animal Dreams

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet drea… read more

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4. 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
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • death
"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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5. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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6. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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7. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

By: Jane Goodall

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"

-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"

-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

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8. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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9. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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10. 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

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"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

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11. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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13. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

By: Trish O'Kane

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

By: Celeste Headlee

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "in…"

-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

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15. The Social Graces

By: Renée Rosen

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in his… read more

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16. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Afterlife

By: Julia Alvarez

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the T… read more

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  • mental health
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18. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

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19. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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20. Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir

By: Liz Levine

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A genuinely moving, funny, and inventive account of loss and grief, mental illness and suicide, fro… read more

Similar categories in Liz Levine's Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir book and Liz Levine's Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • death
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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21. Someone Else's Bucket List

By: Amy T. Matthews

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

After the untimely death of her outgoing, hugely successful influencer sister, an introverted woman… read more

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22. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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23. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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24. Her First Palestinian

By: Saeed Teebi

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more

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25. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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26. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

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27. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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28. Fruit of the Drunken Tree

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a mesmerizing debut set against the backd… read more

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"What song could Pablo Escobar possibly sing in the shower?"

-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

"As her photo burned, I thought: even oblivion is a kindness."

-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

"Multiply me when necessary, make me disappear when peremptory. Transform me into light when there is shadow, into a star when in the desert."

-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

"I thought again about Pablo Escobar cutting off people's tongues. It made sense to stop speaking, to say only what was necessary and nothing beyond. It was a way to survive."

-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

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29. The Listeners

By: Jordan Tannahill

3.42

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound th… read more

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30. Cinderella Liberator

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In her debut children’s book, Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist … read more

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"When you love someone a lot, they just look like love."

-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

"...nobody is good or valuable because of who their parents are, or bad because their parents are bad. They are as good and valuable as they are in their own words and deeds..."

-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

"The blue fairy godmother opened the door, and asked her if she'd had a good time, and she said Yes, and No, and It was very interesting to see all the fancy clothes and the fancy plates with fancy ca…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

"But there isn't actually a most beautiful person in the world, because there are so many kinds of beauty. Some people love roundness and softness, and other people love sharp edges and strong muscles…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

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31. Henrietta Lacks: The Untold Story

By: Ron Lacks

3.55

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cells were the first human cells to grow in cul… read more

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  • nonfiction

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A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

4.22

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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Jane Goodall

4.19

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Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

Adam Shoalts

3.95

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Éric Chacour

4.43

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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