26 Top memoir books like This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane

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This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

By: Elizabeth Crane

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an…

If you liked the memoir plot in This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane , here is a list of 26 books like this:

1. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

By: Dani Shapiro

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, l… read more

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2. 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 Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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6. 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 Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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7. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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8. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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9. Brutalities: A Love Story

By: Margo Steines

4.16

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more

Similar categories in Margo Steines's Brutalities: A Love Story book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"

-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story

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10. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • divorce
  • audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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12. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

By: Nora McInerny

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more

Similar categories in Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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13. The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of This Book book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • audiobook
  • biography memoir
  • contemporary
"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

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14. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • divorce
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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15. The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

By: Kelly McMasters

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalg… read more

Similar categories in Kelly McMasters's The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • divorce
  • audiobook
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16. But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

By: Kimberly Harrington

3.69

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour , Kimberl… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Harrington's But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • divorce
  • audiobook
"He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. In general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about …"

-Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

"He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. I’m general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about…"

-Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

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17. Pete and Alice in Maine

By: Caitlin Shetterly

3.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in New York Cit… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • audiobook
  • relationships
  • marriage
  • contemporary
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18. I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

By: Emily Farris

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD… read more

Similar categories in Emily Farris's I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg

19. I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

By: Jami Attenberg

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and e… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld

20. Acceptance: A Memoir

By: Emi Nietfeld

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more

Similar categories in Emi Nietfeld's Acceptance: A Memoir book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."

-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir

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21. Small World

By: Laura Zigman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more

Similar categories in Laura Zigman's Small World book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"

-Laura Zigman, Small World

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22. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Congratulations, the Best is Over! book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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23. All of This

By: Rebecca Woolf

3.93

Format: 256 pages, ebook

"Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."--ROXANE GA… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Woolf's All of This book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence by Lynne Tillman

24. MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

By: Lynne Tillman

3.49

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman became one of nearly 53 million Ame… read more

Similar categories in Lynne Tillman's MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

By: Elizabeth Crane

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • divorce
  • audiobook
Cover of BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate

26. BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

By: Christie Tate

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” — Pit… read more

Similar categories in Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment

27. 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 Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of) by Hannah Pittard

28. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)

By: Hannah Pittard

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Pittard's We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of) book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • divorce
  • audiobook
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29. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • audiobook
  • relationships
  • marriage
  • contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key

30. Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.05

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

A Good Housekeeping Book of the Month This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winn… read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again? book and Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Is a mother excited the baby's going to come out? Yes, yes, of course, so she can take a bath in a vat of gin."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"My salary increased from $30,000 per year to $50,000, which, after taxes and student loan and car payments, came to forty dollars."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"I wanted to share the new [written] work with my wife, but decided not to, as she was pregnant and now generally only answered questions about nachos."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"I tried church [to meet guys],' she said. 'I bet you hate it.' 'I do.' I couldn't argue with that. Churches can be frightening places, full of friendly old people."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

7 Top contemporary books like This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane

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The Hero of This Book

Elizabeth McCracken

3.77

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Caitlin Shetterly

3.38

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Small World

Laura Zigman

3.47

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MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Lynne Tillman

3.49

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Jenny Jackson

3.57

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Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

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The Celebrants

Steven Rowley

3.64

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I Have Some Questions for You

Rebecca Makkai

3.61

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