12 Best biography books like Southern Discomfort: A Memoir by Tena Clark

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Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

By: Tena Clark

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle , a riveting and profoundly movin…

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1. Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

By: Anne Lamott

3.70

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"...my disease wanted me dead, but would settle for getting me drunk..."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"Sigh: who was it who said that to get into heaven, you needed a letter of recommendation from the poor?"

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"Trauma, which is stored differently in the brain than memory, seeps out of us as warnings of worse to come."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

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2. A Lotus Grows in the Mud

By: Goldie Hawn , Wendy Holden

4.14

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events th… read more

Similar categories in Goldie Hawn's A Lotus Grows in the Mud book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Wonder Boys

By: Michael Chabon , None

3.95

Format: 302 pages,

In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking… read more

Similar categories in Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • lgbt

4. The Secret Wisdom of the Earth

By: Christopher Scotton

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin … read more

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5. Lift

By: Kelly Corrigan

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started wit… read more

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6. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

Similar categories in Susan J. Eischeid's Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

Similar categories in Stephen McCauley's You Only Call When You're in Trouble book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
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8. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

Similar categories in Whoopi Goldberg's Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

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9. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

By: Axton Betz-Hamilton

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An identity theft expert tells the story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and… read more

Similar categories in Axton Betz-Hamilton's The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Too Much Is Not Enough

By: Andrew Rannells

4.14

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Rannells's Too Much Is Not Enough book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Janis: Her Life and Music

By: Holly George-Warren

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of… read more

Similar categories in Holly George-Warren's Janis: Her Life and Music book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Things We Didn’t Know

By: Elba Iris Pérez

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more

Similar categories in Elba Iris Pérez's The Things We Didn’t Know book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of Southern Discomfort: A Memoir by Tena Clark

14. Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

By: Tena Clark

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle , a riveting and profoundly movin… read more

Similar categories in Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • southern
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Farewell Tour

By: Stephanie Clifford

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise , a “shimmering” ( New York Times B… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Clifford's The Farewell Tour book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. House of Sticks

By: Ly Tran

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T… read more

Similar categories in Ly Tran's House of Sticks book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! by Tom Scharpling

17. It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

By: Tom Scharpling

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the comedian, television writer, and host of the Best Show, a revealing and powerful memoir ex… read more

Similar categories in Tom Scharpling's It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's so much more satisfying to watch someone punch above their weight, because when they win, all of us slobs win."

-Tom Scharpling, It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

"Being funny really is like a superpower because you can control situations with an offhand comment or wisecrack that kinda just falls from your brainpan without much effort. But like the Spider-Man s…"

-Tom Scharpling, It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

Cover of Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret by Pamela Everett

18. Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret

By: Pamela Everett

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California crime stunne… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Everett's Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. The Other Princess

By: Denny S. Bryce

3.99

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in… read more

Similar categories in Denny S. Bryce's The Other Princess book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir by Priscilla Gilman

20. The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

By: Priscilla Gilman

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of fa… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Gilman's The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Hippie Woman Wild: A Memoir of Life & Love on an Oregon Commune by Carol Schlanger

21. Hippie Woman Wild: A Memoir of Life & Love on an Oregon Commune

By: Carol Schlanger

4.27

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

A not-so-nice Jewish girl, expelled from Yale Drama during the Vietnam protests, abandons her actin… read more

Similar categories in Carol Schlanger's Hippie Woman Wild: A Memoir of Life & Love on an Oregon Commune book and Tena Clark's Southern Discomfort: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

6 Top adult books like Southern Discomfort: A Memoir by Tena Clark

Transform Your Habits

You Only Call When You're in Trouble

Stephen McCauley

3.45

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Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

Michelle Horton

4.52

Transform Your Habits

The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

Axton Betz-Hamilton

3.89

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Tena Clark

4.03

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Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Stephanie Land

3.62

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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Between Two Trailers

J. Dana Trent

3.65

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