22 must-read biography books like Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered by Melissa Gilbert

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Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

By: Melissa Gilbert

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilari…

"Everyone across America had the same idea at the same time. Chickens became the toilet paper of the spring."

-Melissa Gilbert, Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

If you liked the biography plot in Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered by Melissa Gilbert , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. The Knitting Circle

By: Ann Hood

4.00

Format: None pages,

"An intelligent, moving read" (Pages) and "a testament to women's friendship and to Ann Hood's tale… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice by Maureen McCormick

2. Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice

By: Maureen McCormick

4.00

Format: None pages,

Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all--… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • adult
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3. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By: Caroline Fraser

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Lit… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House

By: None

3.17

Format: None pages,

When other girls her age were experiencing their first crushes, Melissa Sue Anderson was receiving … read more

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

5. Lessons from the Prairie: The Surprising Secrets to Happiness, Success, and (Sometimes Just) Survival I Learned on America's Favorite Show

By: Melissa Francis

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

For fans of the beloved TV show Little House on the Prairie, a self-help book by Melissa Francis, b… read more

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6. Winning Balance: What I've Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams

By: Shawn Johnson , Nancy French

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Twenty-year-old American gymnast Shawn Johnson is a four-time Olympic gold and silver medalist; a n… read more

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7. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

By: Alison Arngrim

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on o… read more

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8. Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

By: Minnie Driver

4.09

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A MARIE CLAIRE BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR - A USA TODAY MUST READ BOOK - A W MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all pretend until pretense becomes practiced and I suppose, looks like reality."

-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

"I think again of that thing no one tells you about birth, that as your body offers up your child to the outside world your very first job as a mother is to let go. I really never thought about the fa…"

-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

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9. Out of the Corner

By: Jennifer Grey

3.81

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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11. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

By: Geena Davis

4.04

Format: None pages, Audio CD

None read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

By: Valerie Bertinelli

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and  New York Times  best… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard

14. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

By: Ron Howard

4.27

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me

By: Ralph Macchio

4.02

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, the… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots

By: Reba McEntire

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-dri… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories

By: Kelly Ripa

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An instant  New York Times  bestseller from Kelly Ripa—a sharp, funny, and honest collection of rea… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

By: Melissa Gilbert

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilari… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • family
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Everyone across America had the same idea at the same time. Chickens became the toilet paper of the spring."

-Melissa Gilbert, Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

Cover of Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma by Karen Grassle

20. Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma

By: Karen Grassle

3.35

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edg… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Later I learned that he had taken one look at my 8X10 photo and said “I’m going to fall in love with her."

-Karen Grassle, Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma

"In show business, living on the edge can be scary, but knowing that a phone call can change your life is exhilarating, too."

-Karen Grassle, Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma

"Sometimes change is hurtling down the tracks, nothing will be the same, and thought you’ve barely noticed the hum in the vibrating steel, it’s coming nonetheless."

-Karen Grassle, Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma

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21. Olivia Newton-John. Don't Stop Believin

By: Newton John Olivia

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With candour, humour and warmth, legendary musician, actress, activis… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Little House in the Hollywood Hills: A Bad Girl's Guide to Becoming Miss Beadle, Mary X, and Me by Charlotte  Fawdington

22. Little House in the Hollywood Hills: A Bad Girl's Guide to Becoming Miss Beadle, Mary X, and Me

By: Charlotte Fawdington

4.06

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte Stewart is known by millions of fans worldwide for her role as the beloved schoolteacher,… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
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23. Behind The Shoulder Pads

By: Joan Collins

3.88

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home'[A] hugely engaging a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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24. Call Me Anne

By: Anne Heche

3.09

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This memoir by Anne Heche is as personal as it gets, offering a peek inside the mind of the late Em… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share by Valerie Bertinelli

25. Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share

By: Valerie Bertinelli

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved actress and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli returns with her most indu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of With Each Tomorrow (The Jewels of Kalispell, #2) by Tracie Peterson

26. With Each Tomorrow (The Jewels of Kalispell, #2)

By: Tracie Peterson

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

As the formation of Glacier National Park takes Eleanor Briggs and her conservationist father on a … read more

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Cover of A Prairie Devotional: Inspired by the Beloved TV Series by Wendi Lou Lee

27. A Prairie Devotional: Inspired by the Beloved TV Series

By: Wendi Lou Lee

4.55

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In A Prairie Devotional, former child actress Wendi Lou Lee, who played Grace Ingalls on the TV sho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Red Tail Feathers: Dare to Discover the Beauty of Grace by Wendi Lou Lee

28. Red Tail Feathers: Dare to Discover the Beauty of Grace

By: Wendi Lou Lee

4.43

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

From the actress who starred as "Baby Grace" on the beloved series Little House on the Prairie come… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle    Moran

29. Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp

By: Michelle Moran

4.30

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dram… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond by Dean Butler

30. Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond

By: Dean Butler

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating, insider’s journey through the world of Little House on the Prairie and beyond, fro… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free by Laura Carney

31. My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free

By: Laura Carney

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Featured in New York Post and People Magazine On the cusp of middle age, a newlywed journalist dis… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

14 must-read adult books like Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered by Melissa Gilbert

Transform Your Habits

Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice

Maureen McCormick

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House

None

3.17

Transform Your Habits

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

Minnie Driver

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Out of the Corner

Jennifer Grey

3.81

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Transform Your Habits

Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

Phil Collins

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Mozart's Starling

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

David von Drehle

4.00

Transform Your Habits

It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

Mary Louise Kelly

3.86

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