19 Best biography books like All of This by Rebecca Woolf

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All of This

By: Rebecca Woolf

3.93

Format: 256 pages, ebook

"Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."--ROXANE GA…

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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4. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

By: Chrysta Bilton

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more

Similar categories in Chrysta Bilton's Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • adult
  • lgbt
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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6. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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7. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

By: Nora McInerny

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more

Similar categories in Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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8. 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 Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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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9. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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10. 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 Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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13. What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love

By: Laurel Braitman

4.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. “What Looks L… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Braitman's What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. All of This

By: Rebecca Woolf

3.93

Format: 256 pages, ebook

"Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."--ROXANE GA… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Woolf's All of This book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. In Sickness: A Memoir

By: Barrett Rollins

3.77

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A medical emergency forces a brilliant Harvard oncologist to reveal that she has been hiding her ad… read more

Similar categories in Barrett Rollins's In Sickness: A Memoir book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

By: Elizabeth Crane

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Everything is Perfect: A Memoir

By: Kate Nason

4.17

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven years into her second marriage, Kate Nason discovered her husband was cheating on her. Then, … read more

Similar categories in Kate Nason's Everything is Perfect: A Memoir book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live

By: Heather B. Armstrong

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong writes about her experience as one of only a few people to … read more

Similar categories in Heather B. Armstrong's The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"And just in case you didn't know this little tidbit about social interaction, let me fill you in on something: Do not ever comment on how or what or when a woman is eating anything. Don't do it. Beca…"

-Heather B. Armstrong, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live

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20. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • feminism
  • marriage
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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21. Acne

By: Laura Chinn

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the creator and star of Florida Girls comes a hilarious and profound memoir about family, happ… read more

Similar categories in Laura Chinn's Acne book and Rebecca Woolf's All of This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We were not “ride or die"

-Laura Chinn, Acne

"As I took in all the sick and injured babies around me, I could feel empathy being forced upon me and I did not like it."

-Laura Chinn, Acne

"One of my friends lost her virginity when she was twelve to her older brother’s nineteen-year-old friend. She said he crept into her bedroom in the middle of the night and took her virginity. At the …"

-Laura Chinn, Acne

"Our family was an organic, free-range, humanely sourced kind of family. The kind of family who uses plant-based cleaners that aren’t strong enough to actually degrease anything so every pot and pan h…"

-Laura Chinn, Acne

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Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

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Chrysta Bilton

4.07

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Miranda July

3.81

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3.84

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

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Nicole Chung

4.01

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Ann Napolitano

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