14 must-read biography books like Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma by Karen Grassle

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

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…

"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

If you liked the biography plot in Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma by Karen Grassle , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the pra… read more

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  • audiobook
"Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"Snow as fine and grainy as sugar covered the windows in and sifted off to the floor and did not melt."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"When gloomy clouds across the sky Cast shadows o'er the land, Bright rays of hope illumine my path, For Jesus holds my hand."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

"All day the storm lasted. The windows were white and the wind never stopped howling and screaming. It was pleasant in the warm house. Laura and Mary did their lessons, then Pa played the fiddle while…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)

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2. Prairie Tale: A Memoir

By: Melissa Gilbert

4.50

Format: 532 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • adult
Cover of Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice by Maureen McCormick

3. 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
Cover of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

4. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. 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

6. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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7. 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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8. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more

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  • audiobook
"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"

-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

9. Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing--his very own… read more

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10. On the Other Side of the Hill (Little House: The Rocky Ridge Years, #4)

By: Roger Lea MacBride , David Gilleece

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A new addition to the popular series written by the adopted grandson of Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls … read more

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11. 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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Cover of If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos

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

Similar categories in John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me book and Karen Grassle's Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma

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

14. 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

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

  • history
  • 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

Cover of My Dad's Funnier than Your Dad: Growing Up with Tim Conway in the Funniest House in America by Kelly Conway

15. My Dad's Funnier than Your Dad: Growing Up with Tim Conway in the Funniest House in America

By: Kelly Conway

3.92

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Comic and television star Tim Conway (The Carol Burnett Show, McHale's Navy, Dorf) enjoyed enormous… read more

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  • history
  • 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

16. 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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17. 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

Similar categories in Joan Collins's Behind The Shoulder Pads book and Karen Grassle's Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie by Todd  Fisher

18. My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie

By: Todd Fisher

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A revelatory and touching tribute to the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds written by the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

19. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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

20. 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 Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond by Dean Butler

21. 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

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4.50

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

Maureen McCormick

4.00

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

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3.17

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If You Would Have Told Me

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3.81

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Kristin Hannah

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Ashley Elston

4.05

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Jill Duggar

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Paris Hilton

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