15 Best nonfiction books like The Angle of Flickering Light by Gina Troisi

Cover of The Angle of Flickering Light by Gina Troisi

The Angle of Flickering Light

By: Gina Troisi

4.07

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Desperate to find respite from the knowledge of her father's infidelities, his verbal abuse, and he…

"It was more than loneliness, than isolation; it was a feeling of somehow being invisible and transparent at the same time, of sinking & slipping of falling away."

-Gina Troisi, The Angle of Flickering Light

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Angle of Flickering Light by Gina Troisi , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Million Dollar Mermaid by Esther  Williams, Digby Diehl

1. The Million Dollar Mermaid

By: Esther Williams , Digby Diehl

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

During Hollywood's heyday, big studios battled over the next box-office attraction. While Gene Kell… read more

Similar categories in Esther Williams's The Million Dollar Mermaid book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Amelia's Story: A Childhood Lost (Amelia #1) by D.G. Torrens

2. Amelia's Story: A Childhood Lost (Amelia #1)

By: D.G. Torrens

3.66

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

A life of pain and rejection. This is a powerful true story of one young girls struggle to surviv… read more

Similar categories in D.G. Torrens's Amelia's Story: A Childhood Lost (Amelia #1) book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran

3. Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

By: Rachel Moran

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

An astonishingly brave memoir of life in prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman's psyc… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Moran's Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer

4. Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

By: Irene Spencer

4.33

Format: None pages,

IRENE SPENCER grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family- the thirteenth of thirty-one children- so … read more

Similar categories in Irene Spencer's Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Come to the Edge

By: Christina Haag

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young m… read more

Similar categories in Christina Haag's Come to the Edge book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. The Year of Yes

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.20

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

"Why not go out on a date with everyone who asks you? Plenty of reasons. They might be crazy. They … read more

Similar categories in Maria Dahvana Headley's The Year of Yes book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

"I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes

7. Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

By: Madeleine K. Albright , None

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine K. Albright's Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. A Girl from Yamhill

By: Beverly Cleary

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Told in her own words, A Girl from Yamhillis Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary's heartfel… read more

Similar categories in Beverly Cleary's A Girl from Yamhill book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

By: Anne Moody

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived thro… read more

Similar categories in Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

10. Welcome to My Country

By: Lauren Slater

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and … read more

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11. Lit

By: Mary Karr

3.44

Format: 216 pages,

Litfollows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and her astonishing resu… read more

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12. Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

By: Maggie Thrash

1.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and … read more

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13. Starving for Attention

By: Cherry Boone O'Neill

3.89

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

In this dramatic book, Cherry reveals the horrifying cycle that became her own flirtation with deat… read more

Similar categories in Cherry Boone O'Neill's Starving for Attention book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
Cover of Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys by E.J. Plows

14. Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys

By: E.J. Plows

4.18

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

In February 2007 I was diagnosed with Bipolar type one after a long battle with post natal depressi… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Plows's Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Three Witches and The Master by Max Nowaz

15. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

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"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

Cover of Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece by Yvonne Korshak

16. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

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"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

17. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

18. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

19. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of The Angle of Flickering Light by Gina Troisi

20. The Angle of Flickering Light

By: Gina Troisi

4.07

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Desperate to find respite from the knowledge of her father's infidelities, his verbal abuse, and he… read more

Similar categories in Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light book and Gina Troisi's The Angle of Flickering Light

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
"It was more than loneliness, than isolation; it was a feeling of somehow being invisible and transparent at the same time, of sinking & slipping of falling away."

-Gina Troisi, The Angle of Flickering Light

Cover of Home Shopping Diva: Lessons, Lyrics, and Lipstick by Meg Flather

21. Home Shopping Diva: Lessons, Lyrics, and Lipstick

By: Meg Flather

3.99

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Home Shopping Diva...Lessons, Lyrics and Lipstickis the story of Meg Flather’s journey through the … read more

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Esther Williams , Digby Diehl

3.87

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D.G. Torrens

3.66

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Rachel Moran

3.50

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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

Irene Spencer

4.33

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Louisa May Alcott , Joel Myerson

4.07

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Jennifer Gardner Trulson

4.48

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Abigail Thomas

3.68

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Christina Haag

4.17

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