12 Top biography books like Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life by Mallory Smith

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Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

By: Mallory Smith

4.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life desp…

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1. A Short Guide to a Happy Life

By: Anna Quindlen

3.96

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Alternate Side,  Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection o… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's A Short Guide to a Happy Life book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough."

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

"Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat."

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

"But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them. And I a…"

-Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

2. Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

By: Michael J. Collins

4.28

Format: 320 pages,

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3. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Frank Bruni

3.51

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more

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4. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Ingrassia's A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life by Mallory Smith

8. Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

By: Mallory Smith

4.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life desp… read more

Similar categories in Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • audiobook
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9. An Unorthodox Match

By: Naomi Ragen

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

California girl Lola has her life all set up: business degree, handsome fiancé, fast track career, … read more

Similar categories in Naomi Ragen's An Unorthodox Match book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • audiobook
"If you want to change who you are, change what you want."

-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match

"Forging peace between people always outweighed the truth."

-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match

"He felt the joy spread down his body like a slow anointing with holy oil, warm and soothing, from head to toe."

-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match

"So many hypocrites, people busy preaching acceptance and tolerance but hating and rejecting everyone who isn't exactly like them."

-Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match

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10. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

By: Julie Yip-Williams

4.10

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story… read more

Similar categories in Julie Yip-Williams's The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Paradoxes abound in this life. Living is an exercise in navigating within them."

-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

"Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace."

-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

"I think God is beyond what my little, limited, human brain can fathom. But, perhaps, something my limitless soul can just being to grasp in my moments of utmost clarity."

-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

"It is in the acceptance of truth that real wisdom and peace come. It is in the acceptance of truth that real living begins. Conversely, avoidance of truth is the denial of life."

-Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

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11. My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

By: Amy Silverstein

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Sil… read more

Similar categories in Amy Silverstein's My Glory Was I Had Such Friends book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • audiobook
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13. The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

By: Steffanie Strathdee

4.39

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha… read more

Similar categories in Steffanie Strathdee's The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."

-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of …"

-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

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14. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

By: Sunita Puri

4.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf be… read more

Similar categories in Sunita Puri's That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Every Breath I Take

By: Claire Wineland

4.45

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the experience of a child with a life-threatening illness? It can be so hard for parents, f… read more

Similar categories in Claire Wineland's Every Breath I Take book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark by Maryanne O'Hara

16. Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark

By: Maryanne O'Hara

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Year of Magical Thinking and Beautiful Boy, an emotionally raw and inspiring mem… read more

Similar categories in Maryanne O'Hara's Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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17. Maddi y las fronteras

By: Edurne Portela

4.24

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Una tarde de otoño de 2021 Edurne Portela recibe una llamada en la que le ofrecen una serie de docu… read more

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18. Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance

By: Mallory Weggemann

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Meet Mallory a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports comme… read more

Similar categories in Mallory Weggemann's Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • disability
Cover of Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer by Avrum Bluming

19. Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer

By: Avrum Bluming

4.34

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A compelling defense of hormone replacement therapy, exposing the faulty science behind its fall fr… read more

Similar categories in Avrum Bluming's Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Learning How to Learn

By: Tesia Marshik

3.74

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

Education can be enriching and transformative. It can also be downright excruciating—even demoraliz… read more

Similar categories in Tesia Marshik's Learning How to Learn book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever by Bijal P. Trivedi

21. Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever

By: Bijal P. Trivedi

4.43

Format: 615 pages, Hardcover

Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the… read more

Similar categories in Bijal P. Trivedi's Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever book and Mallory Smith's Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

  • biography
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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