7 best-selling autobiography books like The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction by Julie Klam

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The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

By: Julie Klam

3.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her gran…

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Cover of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids by Meghan Daum, Kate Christensen, Tim Kreider, Paul Lisicky, M.G. Lord, Rosemary Mahoney, Sigrid Nunez, Jeanne Safer, Lionel Shriver, Geoff Dyer, Danielle Henderson, None, Anna Holmes, Elliott Holt, Pam Houston, Michelle Huneven, Laura Kipnis

1. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

By: Meghan Daum , Kate Christensen , Tim Kreider , Paul Lisicky , M.G. Lord , Rosemary Mahoney , Sigrid Nunez , Jeanne Safer , Lionel Shriver , Geoff Dyer , Danielle Henderson , None , Anna Holmes , Elliott Holt , Pam Houston , Michelle Huneven , Laura Kipnis

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen Literary Luminaries On The Controversial Subject Of Being Childless By Choice, Collected In… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Daum's Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether."

-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

"A number of children kept coming over to the tennis courts, rattling on the gate, and trying to get in. The watching middle-class mums did nothing to restrain them. Eventually my friend yelled, “Go A…"

-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

"As a woman who chooses to be childless, I generally have just one problem: other adults. Living in a culture where women are assumed to prioritize motherhood above all else and where a woman's person…"

-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

"I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contem…"

-Meghan Daum, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

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2. Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

By: Joshua Davis

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest...and a… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Davis's Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
  • audiobook
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3. In Zanesville

By: Jo Ann Beard

3.62

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying … read more

Similar categories in Jo Ann Beard's In Zanesville book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • adult
  • audiobook
"...within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant."

-Jo Ann Beard, In Zanesville

"The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over."

-Jo Ann Beard, In Zanesville

"Instead of slapping her head, I do what they tell you to do: count to ten. Only I do it the gifted way: 123+456+789+10. When your sister has hurtled you swerving into the darkness, stranded you at a …"

-Jo Ann Beard, In Zanesville

"This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It's where Sunnybank Lad met…"

-Jo Ann Beard, In Zanesville

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4. 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

Similar categories in Maureen McCormick's Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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5. Riot

By: Walter Dean Myers

3.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863,… read more

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6. Magnolia Wednesdays

By: Wendy Wax

3.00

Format: None pages,

From the author of The Accidental Bestsellercomes a wonderfully entertaining book about what to do … read more

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7. The Art Thief

By: Noah Charney

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Rome: In the small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears… read more

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8. Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

By: Diane Keaton

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply… read more

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9. Ladyparts

By: Deborah Copaken

4.11

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

A frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her bod… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Copaken's Ladyparts book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"An American “epidemic of loneliness,"

-Deborah Copaken, Ladyparts

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10. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's I Must Be Dreaming book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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11. Silver Alert

By: Lee Smith

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off o… read more

Similar categories in Lee Smith's Silver Alert book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • adult
  • family
  • audiobook
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12. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's Lucky book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • family
  • audiobook
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14. Summer on Sag Harbor

By: Sunny Hostin

3.90

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a hidden enclave in Sag Harbor affectionately known as SANS—Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninev… read more

Similar categories in Sunny Hostin's Summer on Sag Harbor book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Wayward

By: Dana Spiotta

3.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” ( The New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Dana Spiotta's Wayward book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • womens
  • family
  • audiobook
"She herself had done little all day; instead she reported from the edge of an unlived life."

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?"

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again."

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

"I want things to be normal. I want you to call me and tell me about your life. I want to hear about Ally, and I want to talk politics. I want to garden, and walk my dog. I want my life as it is and a…"

-Dana Spiotta, Wayward

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16. What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life

By: Billy Dee Williams

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the… read more

Similar categories in Billy Dee Williams's What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • 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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18. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

By: Julie Klam

3.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her gran… read more

Similar categories in Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

By: Carmela Ciuraru

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five famous writers, illuminating the … read more

Similar categories in Carmela Ciuraru's Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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20. Cosy: The British Art of Comfort

By: Laura Weir

3.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The language of cosy is part of the English lexicon - 'cosy up', 'cosy down', 'tea cosy', 'cosy toe… read more

Similar categories in Laura Weir's Cosy: The British Art of Comfort book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided

By: Scott Eyman

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from … read more

Similar categories in Scott Eyman's Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • history
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Jacobs's The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. A Big Storm Knocked It Over

By: Laurie Colwin

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In her fifth and final novel, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship, moth… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Colwin's A Big Storm Knocked It Over book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • family
"You should have married a nice girl in her twenties so you can have dozens of babies,'Jane Louise said. 'Instead of the president of the Withered Crone Society."

-Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked It Over

"How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a cheerful person, a d…"

-Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked It Over

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24. She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

By: Mia Mercado

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK T… read more

Similar categories in Mia Mercado's She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. If We're Being Honest

By: Cat Shook

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s deb… read more

Similar categories in Cat Shook's If We're Being Honest book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • adult
  • family
  • audiobook
"As it turns out porn does not automatically make a computer implode."

-Cat Shook, If We're Being Honest

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26. The Pink Hotel

By: Liska Jacobs

2.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Confined to an opulent Beverly Hills hotel during a raging wildfire, a young couple is caught in th… read more

Similar categories in Liska Jacobs's The Pink Hotel book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. Adequate Yearly Progress

By: Roxanna Elden

3.58

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Each new school year brings familiar challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in on… read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Elden's Adequate Yearly Progress book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. 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 Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • 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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29. Up-Island Harbor

By: Jean Stone

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

With all the seaside charm and small-town heart that have made fans of Debbie Macomber and Elin Hil… read more

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30. Weird but Normal: Essays

By: Mia Mercado

3.50

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It’s all weird, but also pretty normal. Navigatin… read more

Similar categories in Mia Mercado's Weird but Normal: Essays book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

Similar categories in Elle Reeve's Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics book and Julie Klam's The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

17 Top adult books like The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction by Julie Klam

Transform Your Habits

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

Meghan Daum , Kate Christensen , Tim Kreider , Paul Lisicky , M.G. Lord , Rosemary Mahoney , Sigrid Nunez , Jeanne Safer , Lionel Shriver , Geoff Dyer , Danielle Henderson , None , Anna Holmes , Elliott Holt , Pam Houston , Michelle Huneven , Laura Kipnis

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

Joshua Davis

4.15

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In Zanesville

Jo Ann Beard

3.62

Transform Your Habits

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

Maureen McCormick

4.00

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17 must-read fiction books like Summer on Sag Harbor by Sunny Hostin

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A Christmas to Remember (Blessings, #11)

Beverly Jenkins

4.33

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Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

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This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)

Kennedy Ryan

4.42

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Double Lives

Mary Monroe

4.23

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