15 Best biography books like No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol

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No One Tells You This

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.91

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol…

"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

If you liked the biography plot in No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Poor Your Soul

By: Mira Ptacin

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Poor Your Soul--moving, wise, and passionately written--is a beautiful reflection on sexuality, fre… read more

Similar categories in Mira Ptacin's Poor Your Soul book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. What Comes Next and How to Like It

By: Abigail Thomas

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, which "shines with honest intelligence" (Elizabeth… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Thomas's What Comes Next and How to Like It book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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 Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • 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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5. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • contemporary
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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6. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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7. 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 Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • 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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8. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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9. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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10. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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12. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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13. Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

By: Ruby Warrington

3.86

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

What is “woman” if not “mother”? Anything she wants to be. Foregoing motherhood has traditional… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Warrington's Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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14. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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15. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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16. The Sicilian Inheritance

By: Jo Piazza

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted i… read more

Similar categories in Jo Piazza's The Sicilian Inheritance book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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17. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Private Equity: A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Sun's Private Equity: A Memoir book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."

-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir

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19. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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20. 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 Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Such a Bad Influence

By: Olivia Muenter

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Muenter's Such a Bad Influence book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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22. No One Tells You This

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.91

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"We're the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"This is why people have babies...because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

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23. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

24. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
  • new york
  • contemporary
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25. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • contemporary
Cover of Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger by Lilly Dancyger

26. Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.30

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

A rich, nuanced exploration of women's anger from a diverse group of writers Women are angry, and … read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"When she looked down at me, though terrified, I felt more seen than I'd ever felt under another person's gaze. I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person c…"

-Lilly Dancyger, Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

"As sure as she is becoming a woman, she is also being indoctrinated into a system I recognize- one that rewards female martyrdom with adoration and gratitude but leaves little room for her to air her…"

-Lilly Dancyger, Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

"Everything I've learned from the time I was born is essentially some form of control. Basic lessons: how to control my hands, my body. Advanced lessons: how to control my volume, my appearance. Havin…"

-Lilly Dancyger, Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

Cover of Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic by Eliza  Smith

27. Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic

By: Eliza Smith

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This fresh, voice-driven feminist anthology reimagines Helen Gurley Brown's seminal work Sex and th… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Smith's Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. You're Safe Here

By: Leslie Stephens

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wellness, motherhood, and technology converge in a future California as three women’s seemingly inn… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Stephens's You're Safe Here book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook
Cover of This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder by Alan Townsend

29. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

By: Alan Townsend

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more

Similar categories in Alan Townsend's This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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30. Big Fan

By: Alexandra Romanoff

4.09

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A political strategist, tainted by a scandalous ex, finds an unexpected career detour when her teen… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Romanoff's Big Fan book and Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This

  • audiobook

12 Best contemporary books like No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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21 Top fiction books like Bear by Julia Phillips

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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Rachel Khong

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