14 best-selling nonfiction books like Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Working Girlmeets What Remains, this is the behind-the-scenes story of an unlikely friendship betwe… read more

Similar categories in RoseMarie Terenzio's Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

By: Carole Radziwill

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

"What Remains" is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an… read more

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3. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • audiobook
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4. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • audiobook
"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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6. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

By: Susan Page

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more

Similar categories in Susan Page's The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Wives Like Us

By: Plum Sykes

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tyco… read more

Similar categories in Plum Sykes's Wives Like Us book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • audiobook
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8. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • new york
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • politics
  • true story
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • new york
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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10. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • audiobook
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11. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

Similar categories in Owen Elliot-Kugell's My Mama, Cass: A Memoir book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Jackie

By: Dawn Tripp

4.34

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted… read more

Similar categories in Dawn Tripp's Jackie book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • politics
  • audiobook
"not only because of the pleasure it will bring, but because the power of ideas, and the ability to express them, is the greatest power we have."

-Dawn Tripp, Jackie

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13. CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

By: Sunita Kamir Nair

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Fashion and creative director Sunita Kumar Nair presents Carolyn Bessette A Life in Fashion, which… read more

Similar categories in Sunita Kamir Nair's CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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14. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

By: Julie Satow

4.06

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visio… read more

Similar categories in Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • new york
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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16. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

Similar categories in Howard Blum's When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

17. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels by Gary Janetti

18. We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels

By: Gary Janetti

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television … read more

Similar categories in Gary Janetti's We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography by RoseMarie Terenzio

19. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more

Similar categories in RoseMarie Terenzio's JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen

By: Robert Jobson

3.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Through the author’s extensive connections within the royal household, this dynamic new biography t… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jobson's Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography by RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil

21. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil

4.39

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

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Similar categories in RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil's JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography book and Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

  • nonfiction
  • biography

18 Top audiobook books like Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

Transform Your Habits

Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss

RoseMarie Terenzio

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Transform Your Habits

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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10 must-read contemporary books like I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris by Glynnis MacNicol

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Paris Novel

Ruth Reichl

3.84

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