17 best-selling memoir books like Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

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Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting…

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. 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 Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"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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3. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

By: Suzanne Scanlon

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.   When Su… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Scanlon's Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

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4. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By: Lucy Sante

3.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Sante's I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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5. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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6. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender: A Memoir book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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7. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

By: Anna Gazmarian

3.63

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more

Similar categories in Anna Gazmarian's Devout: A Memoir of Doubt book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller

8. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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9. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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10. Wolf at the Table

By: Adam Rapp

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a … read more

Similar categories in Adam Rapp's Wolf at the Table book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • mystery
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11. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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12. Everywhere I Look: A Memoir

By: Ona Gritz

4.47

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, a… read more

Similar categories in Ona Gritz's Everywhere I Look: A Memoir book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

13. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

14. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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15. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

16. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • history
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir by Nina St. Pierre

17. Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir

By: Nina St. Pierre

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mo… read more

Similar categories in Nina St. Pierre's Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

19. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable by Sarah Gerard

20. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

By: Sarah Gerard

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gerard's Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide by Rachel Zimmerman

21. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

By: Rachel Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide book and Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Patric Gagne

3.84

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Genevieve Kingston

4.34

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Anna Akbari

3.66

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4.02

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Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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Griffin Dunne

4.19

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3.95

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