20 Top audiobook books like Never Simple by Liz Scheier

Cover of Never Simple by Liz Scheier

Never Simple

By: Liz Scheier

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love betwee…

"Clearly I hadn't actually won the Shitty Family Olympics, just placed in the qualifiers. It could've been worse."

-Liz Scheier, Never Simple

"Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted."

-Liz Scheier, Never Simple

If you liked the audiobook plot in Never Simple by Liz Scheier , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Body Parts by Caitlin Rother

1. Body Parts

By: Caitlin Rother

3.89

Format: 310 pages,

When he walked into the Humbolt County Sheriff's Office in Northern California with a woman's sever… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rother's Body Parts book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • nonfiction
Cover of Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger

2. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

By: Keri Blakinger

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more

Similar categories in Keri Blakinger's Corrections in Ink: A Memoir book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mother Noise by Cindy House

3. Mother Noise

By: Cindy House

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, “raw[,] and tender” ( The New York Times Book Review ) memoir told in essays and graphi… read more

Similar categories in Cindy House's Mother Noise book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

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 Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

5. 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 Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder

6. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Cover of The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister by Kyleigh Leddy

7. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

By: Kyleigh Leddy

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more

Similar categories in Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says “I once meant something to somebody."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

Cover of Rough Draft: A Memoir by Katy Tur

8. Rough Draft: A Memoir

By: Katy Tur

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From MSNBC anchor and New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur, a sharp and candid memoir about a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Tur's Rough Draft: A Memoir book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron

9. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

By: Delia Ephron

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more

Similar categories in Delia Ephron's Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom

10. 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

Similar categories in Amy Bloom's In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Family Outing: A Memoir by Jessi Hempel

11. The Family Outing: A Memoir

By: Jessi Hempel

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of the… read more

Similar categories in Jessi Hempel's The Family Outing: A Memoir book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As an adult, I'll come to understand that the price of belonging to a church community, or to any community, is accepting beliefs that you don't hold. Sometimes these beliefs are so incongruous with …"

-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir

"You'll know, even as I use the word "Evan," that Evan had a name before this. It's a name I won't tell you. To utter it would be to disrespect all the work he has done to find his way to Evan. The mo…"

-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir

Cover of Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld

12. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

Similar categories in Emi Nietfeld's Acceptance: A Memoir book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

Cover of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott

13. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

By: Mary Laura Philpott

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more

Similar categories in Mary Laura Philpott's Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Simple by Liz Scheier

14. Never Simple

By: Liz Scheier

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love betwee… read more

Similar categories in Liz Scheier's Never Simple book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Clearly I hadn't actually won the Shitty Family Olympics, just placed in the qualifiers. It could've been worse."

-Liz Scheier, Never Simple

"Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted."

-Liz Scheier, Never Simple

Cover of Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière

15. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

Similar categories in Alice Carrière's Everything/Nothing/Someone book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane

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 Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank

17. Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

By: Tanya Frank

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother’s quest to accept her son’s journey through psycho… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Frank's Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing by Kathleen Buhle

18. If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing

By: Kathleen Buhle

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Buhle's If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Will Be Funny Later by Jenny Pentland

19. This Will Be Funny Later

By: Jenny Pentland

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding yo… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Pentland's This Will Be Funny Later book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tasha: A Son's Memoir by Brian Morton

20. Tasha: A Son's Memoir

By: Brian Morton

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year In the spirit of Fierce Attachments and The End… read more

Similar categories in Brian Morton's Tasha: A Son's Memoir book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal by Laura Trujillo

21. Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal

By: Laura Trujillo

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this “seismically moving memoir” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Trujillo's Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal book and Liz Scheier's Never Simple

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Body Parts

Caitlin Rother

3.89

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Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

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4.26

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Mother Noise

Cindy House

3.84

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

Meg Kissinger

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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4.28

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Sloane Crosley

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