8 Top biography books like Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

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Small Fry: A Memoir

By: Lisa Brennan-Jobs

3.80

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Br…

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1. Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

By: Karen Armstrong

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Through the Narrow Gateis Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden."

-Karen Armstrong, Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

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2. Letters and Journals

By: Katherine Mansfield , C.K. Stead

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

'Now - now I want to write recollections of my own country. Yes, I want to write about my own count… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humil…"

-Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals

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3. Ophelia Speaks

By: Sara Shandler

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen Sara Shandler was 16, she read psychologist Mary Pipher's Reviving Op… read more

Similar categories in Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks book and Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

By: Mary McCarthy

3.72

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into some…"

-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

"I have sometimes thought that Catholicism is a religion not suited to the laity, or not suited, at any rate, to the American laity, in whom it seems to bring out some of the worst traits in human nat…"

-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

"I felt caught in a dilemma that was new to me then but which since has become horribly familiar: the trap of adult life, in which you are held, wriggling, powerless to act because you can see both si…"

-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

"I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a…"

-Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

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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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. My Hero, My Ding

By: Lisa A. Tortorello

4.05

Format: 128 pages, Perfect Paperback

'I awoke in the darkness listening to the sound of a jack hammer. After a few moments, I realized i… read more

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"It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong."

-Lisa A. Tortorello, My Hero, My Ding

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7. And The Whippoorwill Sang

By: Micki Peluso

4.16

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

It is a day like any other, except the intense heat wave has broken and signs of early fall are in … read more

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  • memoir
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8. The Ugly Daughter

By: Julia Legian , Dawn Burke

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The Ugly Daughter is a thrilling memoir, the gripping true story of a young girl who witnessed horr… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

9. Kate Remembered

By: A. Scott Berg

3.71

Format: 208 pages,

Published a mere 13 days after the death of Katharine Hepburn, Kate Rememberedis best appreciated a… read more

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10. My Story

By: Ingrid Bergman

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

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11. The Mother Knot

By: Kathryn Harrison

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a complex mother-daughter relationship precip… read more

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12. The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs

By: Chrisann Brennan

4.40

Format: 304 pages, ebook

An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight … read more

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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

13. 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 Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

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

14. 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

Similar categories in Anne Michaud's Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives book and Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

15. 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
  • adult
  • biography
  • contemporary
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-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

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16. Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir

By: Angie Cavallari

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Trailer Trash tells the story of Angie Cavallari, your typical girl growing up in the 1980s who fin… read more

Similar categories in Angie Cavallari's Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir book and Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Most days Florence would proudly sport a halter top sans a brassiere and briskly march across her yard in crudely trimmed cut-off-jeans —her cheap flip flops flailing off her feet and her sagging bre…"

-Angie Cavallari, Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir

Cover of Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold by Nancy Smirl Jorgensen

17. Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold

By: Nancy Smirl Jorgensen

3.97

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Narrated in alternating voices by mother Nancy and sister Elizabeth, Go, Gwen, A Midwest Family's … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Smirl Jorgensen's Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold book and Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

18. Small Fry: A Memoir

By: Lisa Brennan-Jobs

3.80

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Br… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir book and Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Triumph of Rosemary

By: Marylin E. Atkins

3.98

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted fro… read more

Similar categories in Marylin E. Atkins's The Triumph of Rosemary book and Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Accidental Sisters: The Story of My 52 Year Wait to Meet My Biological Sister by Katherine Linn Caire

20. Accidental Sisters: The Story of My 52 Year Wait to Meet My Biological Sister

By: Katherine Linn Caire

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Relinquished at birth to Catholic Charities in 1959, Kathe Linn Caire adores her adoptive family an… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Linn Caire's Accidental Sisters: The Story of My 52 Year Wait to Meet My Biological Sister book and Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution by Edward        Williams

21. Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

By: Edward Williams

4.37

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Backpacking around Australia in the year 2000, the author unwittingly found himself the target of o… read more

Similar categories in Edward Williams's Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution book and Lisa Brennan-Jobs's Small Fry: A Memoir

  • contemporary
"Do you want to live, Sander?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"Scopolamine never asks for permission"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"was it even my own mind making the decisions?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"Had I left some children behind somewhere in the world?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

14 Top nonfiction books like Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Transform Your Habits

Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

Karen Armstrong

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Letters and Journals

Katherine Mansfield , C.K. Stead

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Ophelia Speaks

Sara Shandler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Mary McCarthy

3.72

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9 Best nonfiction books like The Ugly Daughter by Julia Legian, Dawn Burke

Transform Your Habits

Slave: My True Story

Damien Lewis , Mende Nazer

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Forever Liesl

Charmian Carr , Jean A.S. Strauss , Jean A. S. Strauss

4.00

Transform Your Habits

My Sergei: A Love Story

Ekaterina Gordeeva , E.M. Swift

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Breaking Clean

Judy Blunt

3.71

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