16 best-selling nonfiction books like Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene

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Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

By: Jayson Greene

4.17

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side o…

"Grief at its peak has a terrible beauty to it, a blinding fission of every emotion. The world is charged with significance, with meaning, and the world around you, normally so solid and implacable, suddenly looks thin, translucent."

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

"Grief at its peak has a terrible beauty to it, a blinding fission of every emotion. The world is charged with significance, with meaning, and the world around you, normally so solid and implacable, suddenly looks thin, translucent."

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

"Grief at its peak has a terrible beauty to it, a blinding fission of every emotion. The world is charged with significance, with meaning, and the world around you, normally so solid and implacable, suddenly looks thin, translucent."

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

"If you were built for optimism, you just had to figure out a way to stay that way. We couldn't keep not caring, even if we wanted to; we just weren't made for it. I felt an unexpected throb of empathy for pessimists: You can't help it, either."

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. A Bolt from the Blue: The Epic True Story of Danger, Daring, and Heroism at 13,000 Feet

By: Jennifer Woodlief

3.88

Format: 256 pages, ebook

FIVE INJURED CLIMBERS. TEN SEASONED RANGERS. ONE IMPOSSIBLE RESCUE. On the afternoon of July 26, 20… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Woodlief's A Bolt from the Blue: The Epic True Story of Danger, Daring, and Heroism at 13,000 Feet book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

By: Michael J. Collins

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rock… read more

Similar categories in Michael J. Collins's Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking th…"

-Michael J. Collins, Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

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3. Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living

By: Susan Spencer-Wendel

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)--Lou Gehrig'… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your broug…"

-Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living

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4. Half a Life

By: Jill Ciment

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Unflinchingly honest, moving, and funny, Half a Lifeshows how a girl without means or promise and w… read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Half a Life book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. Wave

By: Sonali Deraniyagala

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost h… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

6. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

By: Nina Riggs

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina… read more

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7. Healing After Loss:: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

By: Martha Whitmore Hickman

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The classic guide for dealing with grief and loss For those who have suffered the loss of a loved o… read more

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8. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

By: Dani Shapiro

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, l… read more

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9. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

Similar categories in Rob Delaney's A Heart That Works book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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10. I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief

By: Clare Mackintosh

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

New York Times and international bestselling mystery author Clare Mackintosh makes her nonfiction d… read more

Similar categories in Clare Mackintosh's I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Amy Bloom

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Stranger Care

By: Sarah Sentilles

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Sentilles's Stranger Care book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you have kids?" strangers asked almost every day. "No," I said, not wanting to explain, because, really, it's an unimaginative question, full of their beliefs about what family means, about who co…"

-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care

"People who learned Eric and I wanted to adopt a child often told us stories of adoptions gone wrong. The adopted child incapable of attachment. Who became a drug addict, a runaway, who drained bank a…"

-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care

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14. Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

By: Jayson Greene

4.17

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side o… read more

Similar categories in Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief at its peak has a terrible beauty to it, a blinding fission of every emotion. The world is charged with significance, with meaning, and the world around you, normally so solid and implacable, s…"

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

"If you were built for optimism, you just had to figure out a way to stay that way. We couldn't keep not caring, even if we wanted to; we just weren't made for it. I felt an unexpected throb of empath…"

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

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

15. 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 Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • 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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16. Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

By: David Kessler

4.43

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth K… read more

Similar categories in David Kessler's Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • death
Cover of Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

17. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

By: Kelly Sundberg

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Gl… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was only ever leaving. I was leaving when he hit me. Leaving when he screamed “You are a fucking cunt!"

-Kelly Sundberg, Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

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18. Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry

By: Alex Ritany

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean when your best friend is dead and your instinct is relief? A stunningly immersive… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Overdose: Heartbreak And Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis by Benjamin Perrin

19. Overdose: Heartbreak And Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis

By: Benjamin Perrin

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and powerful look at the ongoing opioid health crisis--the only book of its kind in … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Perrin's Overdose: Heartbreak And Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life by Amanda  Stern

20. Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life

By: Amanda Stern

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Stern's Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

Similar categories in Evie Wyld's The Echoes book and Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

  • audiobook

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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon

Michael J. Collins

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living

Susan Spencer-Wendel

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

3.98

Transform Your Habits

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney

4.62

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

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