5 Best biography memoir books like House Lessons: Renovating a Life by Erica Bauermeister

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House Lessons: Renovating a Life

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ERICA BAUERMEISTER COMES A MEMOIR ABOUT THE POWER OF HOME AN…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in House Lessons: Renovating a Life by Erica Bauermeister , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg

1. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

By: Molly Wizenberg

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off … read more

Similar categories in Molly Wizenberg's A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell on the floor, a classic example of survival of the fitt…"

-Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

2. SoulSpace: Creating a Home That Is Free of Clutter, Full of Beauty, and Inspired by You

By: Marianne Williamson , None

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

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3. Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch (Queen Bee Series, #1)

By: Haywood Smith

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Linwood Breedlove Scott's life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run … read more

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4. 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
  • adult
  • contemporary
Cover of How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key

5. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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6. 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

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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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7. The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs

By: Laura Tremaine

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Offering a path for a new way to think about friendships, The Life Council will inspire and equip y… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
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8. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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9. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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10. At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

By: Heather Webber

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward. When Ava Harrison receives … read more

Similar categories in Heather Webber's At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
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11. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
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12. 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 Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"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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13. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

Similar categories in Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

Similar categories in Monica Wood's How to Read a Book book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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15. House Lessons: Renovating a Life

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ERICA BAUERMEISTER COMES A MEMOIR ABOUT THE POWER OF HOME AN… read more

Similar categories in Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • self help
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16. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Ford's Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

17. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner

18. Colton Gentry's Third Act

By: Jeff Zentner

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A story of love, healing, and second chances ” (Emily Henry) following a down on his luck country … read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Colton Gentry's Third Act book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"His heart leapt like a murmuration of starlings taking flight. Every reach of him filled with light. He wondered how anyone survived this feeling he'd just named. This delirious sweetness. Maybe no o…"

-Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

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19. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

By: Caleb Carr

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of  The Alienist,  Caleb  Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more

Similar categories in Caleb Carr's My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Memory of Lavender and Sage by Aimie K. Runyan

20. The Memory of Lavender and Sage

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since s… read more

Similar categories in Aimie K. Runyan's The Memory of Lavender and Sage book and Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
Cover of Genius Kitchen: Over 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Make Your Brain Sharp, Body Strong, and Taste Buds Happy (Genius Living Book 3) by Max Lugavere

21. Genius Kitchen: Over 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Make Your Brain Sharp, Body Strong, and Taste Buds Happy (Genius Living Book 3)

By: Max Lugavere

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

USA TODAY Bestseller WALL STREET JOURNAL Bestseller Combining the dietary recommendations in his … read more

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  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Family Family

Laurie Frankel

4.00

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The Paris Novel

Ruth Reichl

3.84

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At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

Heather Webber

3.97

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Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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Colm Tóibín

3.82

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