15 Top nonfiction books like How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton

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How to Say Goodbye

By: Wendy MacNaughton

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY Bestseller “A poem to mortality and the beauty of how we can cope with it.”―Atul Gaw…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Pretty Ugly

By: David Sedaris

3.55

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris and Ian Falconer make a spectacular splash with this tale of a monster turned ugly—st… read more

Similar categories in David Sedaris's Pretty Ugly book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
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2. Watership Down: The Graphic Novel

By: James Sturm

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams’s beloved story of a group of ra… read more

Similar categories in James Sturm's Watership Down: The Graphic Novel book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
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3. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

Similar categories in Darrin Bell's The Talk book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • memoir
  • mental health
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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6. There Was a Party for Langston

By: Jason Reynolds

4.48

Format: 56 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's There Was a Party for Langston book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • poetry
  • art
  • nonfiction
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7. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
Cover of Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

8. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

By: Thien Pham

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more

Similar categories in Thien Pham's Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. 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 Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

By: Julia Wertz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more

Similar categories in Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

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11. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

Similar categories in Navied Mahdavian's This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Bunny & Tree

By: Balint Zsako

4.38

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous wordless adventure story about a rabbit and a tree, their surprising friendship, and the… read more

Similar categories in Balint Zsako's Bunny & Tree book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • art
  • graphic novels
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13. How to Say Goodbye

By: Wendy MacNaughton

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY Bestseller “A poem to mortality and the beauty of how we can cope with it.”―Atul Gaw… read more

Similar categories in Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • poetry
  • art
  • memoir
  • health
  • graphic novels
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • self help
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14. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Vellekoop's I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
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15. The Fox Maidens

By: Robin Ha

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic new graphic novel fantasy—a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korea… read more

Similar categories in Robin Ha's The Fox Maidens book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
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16. My Picture Diary

By: Maki Fujiwara

4.04

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

The wife of Japan’s most lauded manga-ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry. … read more

Similar categories in Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. Artificial: A Love Story

By: Amy Kurzweil

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcend… read more

Similar categories in Amy Kurzweil's Artificial: A Love Story book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • art
  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Hello Grief: I'll Be Right with You

By: Alessandra Olanow

4.12

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

The author of the bestselling I Used to Have a Plan is back with more balm for the soul, offering a… read more

Similar categories in Alessandra Olanow's Hello Grief: I'll Be Right with You book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • poetry
  • art
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • death
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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19. Bear Is Never Alone

By: Marc Veerkamp

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, thoughtful story about the pressure to perform and the support of a true friend. Whe… read more

Similar categories in Marc Veerkamp's Bear Is Never Alone book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • art
Cover of Death Nesting: The Heart-Centered Practices of a Death Doula by Anne-Marie Keppel

20. Death Nesting: The Heart-Centered Practices of a Death Doula

By: Anne-Marie Keppel

4.37

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

A practical and compassionate guide to physically, emotionally, and spiritually caring for the dyin… read more

Similar categories in Anne-Marie Keppel's Death Nesting: The Heart-Centered Practices of a Death Doula book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • nonfiction
  • death
Cover of Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being by Jean-François Beauchemin

21. Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being

By: Jean-François Beauchemin

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

For readers of World of Wonders and the poetry of Mary Oliver comes a joyful, tender memoir of enco… read more

Similar categories in Jean-François Beauchemin's Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being book and Wendy MacNaughton's How to Say Goodbye

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

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4.65

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3.91

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3.95

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Deena Mohamed

4.50

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