14 best-selling nonfiction books like Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog by Jenna Blum

Cover of Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog by Jenna Blum

Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

By: Jenna Blum

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

“When I say Jenna Blum’s upcoming Woodrow on the Bench wrecked me and that I’m now sobbing eating a…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog by Jenna Blum , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way by Lisa J. Edwards, Lisa Collier Cool

1. A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way

By: Lisa J. Edwards , Lisa Collier Cool

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She thought she was rescuing an abandoned puppy. Turns out, he was rescuing her. The last thing … read more

Similar categories in Lisa J. Edwards's A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

By: Catherine Bailey

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The … read more

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3. Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived

By: Laurence Shames , Peter Barton (I)

3.76

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Some people are born to lead and destined to teach by the example of living life to the fullest, an… read more

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Cover of The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man by David von Drehle

4. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

Similar categories in David von Drehle's The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22) by Jennifer Chiaverini

5. The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Cr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chiaverini's The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22) book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
Cover of The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom by Larry Loftis

6. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

By: Larry Loftis

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Florida Book Awards Gold Medalist New York Times bestselling author and … read more

Similar categories in Larry Loftis's The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality by Karen Fine

7. The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

By: Karen Fine

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tribute to our furry, feathery, scaley, and wet family members, All Creatures Great and Small mee… read more

Similar categories in Karen Fine's The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom

8. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Amy Bloom

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more

Similar categories in Amy Bloom's In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

9. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

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  • audiobook
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

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10. 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 Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff

11. The Fortnight in September

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards

12. The Thread Collectors

By: Shaunna J. Edwards

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroid… read more

Similar categories in Shaunna J. Edwards's The Thread Collectors book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
"As everyone around her knew, there were so many ways to not be free."

-Shaunna J. Edwards, The Thread Collectors

Cover of Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford

13. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Ford's Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

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14. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's The Horse book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
Cover of The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg

15. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

By: Rick Bragg

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but t… read more

Similar categories in Rick Bragg's The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Does he bite?"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"Goodnight, buddy,"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"I am beginning to think that the word “no,"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"But I don't think any dog knows home better than one thrown anway once already."

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

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16. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

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  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

17. 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 Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog by Jenna Blum

18. Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

By: Jenna Blum

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

“When I say Jenna Blum’s upcoming Woodrow on the Bench wrecked me and that I’m now sobbing eating a… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets by Annie England Noblin

19. St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets

By: Annie England Noblin

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

If you love Susan Mallery and Jill Shalvis, you won’t want to miss this new novel of second chances… read more

Similar categories in Annie England Noblin's St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • animals
  • audiobook
Cover of My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr

20. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

By: Caleb Carr

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of  The Alienist,  Caleb  Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more

Similar categories in Caleb Carr's My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams

21. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
Cover of Silent Bite (Andy Carpenter, #22) by David Rosenfelt

22. Silent Bite (Andy Carpenter, #22)

By: David Rosenfelt

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lawyer Andy Carpenter can finally take a breath; he’s back on dry land after a family Caribbean cru… read more

Similar categories in David Rosenfelt's Silent Bite (Andy Carpenter, #22) book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • dogs
  • audiobook
Cover of The Marriage Sabbatical by Lian Dolan

23. The Marriage Sabbatical

By: Lian Dolan

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What if you could take a vacation from your marriage? A couple decides to give it a shot in this fu… read more

Similar categories in Lian Dolan's The Marriage Sabbatical book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
Cover of When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

24. When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

By: Martha Teichner

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!* A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right pl… read more

Similar categories in Martha Teichner's When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"And I need at least one dog walking along beside me, even better, two, as I push my grocery cart east, across town, and then back. Without a dog or two beside me, I feel incomplete. I catch myself ta…"

-Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

"Bull terriers are odd dogs. With their egg-shaped heads, slitty eyes, and pointy ears, they’re funny looking. Think Spuds MacKenzie or the Target dog. BTs are opinionated, exuberant, stubborn, extrem…"

-Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

Cover of Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds by Tom Seeman

25. Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds

By: Tom Seeman

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical coming-of-age story set in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, Animals I Want To See explores t… read more

Similar categories in Tom Seeman's Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency by Kate MacDougall

26. London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency

By: Kate MacDougall

3.72

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The irresistibly charming memoir of a young woman who started her own business as a dog walker for … read more

Similar categories in Kate MacDougall's London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Working life seemed to be one enormous con to me, a deception so brilliant that it had reeled in entire generations of wide-eyed graduates bursting with ideas and energy and youthful enthusiasm, only…"

-Kate MacDougall, London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency

Cover of How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard

27. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's How the Light Gets In book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
Cover of Meet Me at the Starlight by Rachel Hauck

28. Meet Me at the Starlight

By: Rachel Hauck

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Eighties supermodel Harlow Hayes seeks solace in a quaint Florida beach town to hide and heal from … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hauck's Meet Me at the Starlight book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • audiobook
Cover of The Voice: Listening for God’s Voice and Finding Your Own by Sandi Patty

29. The Voice: Listening for God’s Voice and Finding Your Own

By: Sandi Patty

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Christian music icon and forty-time Dove award winner, Sandi Patty has long astounded listeners wit… read more

Similar categories in Sandi Patty's The Voice: Listening for God’s Voice and Finding Your Own book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"God reshapes and repurposes. He brings change. That's God's job, and we just need to get out of the way and let Him do what He does. So why stifle our voices and withhold the truth of our broken piec…"

-Sandi Patty, The Voice: Listening for God’s Voice and Finding Your Own

Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

30. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kiser's Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant book and Jenna Blum's Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of An Echo in Time by Boo Walker

31. An Echo in Time

By: Boo Walker

4.46

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman delves into a centuries-old murder to find the truth behind her self-destructive behavior i… read more

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27 Best audiobook books like Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog by Jenna Blum

Transform Your Habits

A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way

Lisa J. Edwards , Lisa Collier Cool

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

David von Drehle

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

Larry Loftis

4.32

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19 must-read audiobook books like My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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