10 Best biography books like Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

Cover of Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

By: Kelly Sundberg

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Gl…

"I was only ever leaving. I was leaving when he hit me. Leaving when he screamed “You are a fucking cunt!"

-Kelly Sundberg, Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

If you liked the biography plot in Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

By: Lundy Bancroft

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft--a counselor who specializes in working with abus… read more

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2. Before He Finds Her

By: Michael Kardos

2.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in Septe… read more

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3. Parkland: Birth of a Movement

By: Dave Cullen

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more

Similar categories in Dave Cullen's Parkland: Birth of a Movement book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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4. Everything Is Fine

By: Vince Granata

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more

Similar categories in Vince Granata's Everything Is Fine book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

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5. 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 Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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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6. Tell Me I'm An Artist

By: Chelsea Martin

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a work-in-progress (Sharma Shields), this hilarious and incisive coming… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Martin's Tell Me I'm An Artist book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • feminism
  • adult
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7. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

By: Jayson Greene

4.17

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side o… read more

Similar categories in Jayson Greene's Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief at its peak has a terrible beauty to it, a blinding fission of every emotion. The world is charged with significance, with meaning, and the world around you, normally so solid and implacable, s…"

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

"If you were built for optimism, you just had to figure out a way to stay that way. We couldn't keep not caring, even if we wanted to; we just weren't made for it. I felt an unexpected throb of empath…"

-Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir

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9. The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue

By: John Glatt

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Tur… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • abuse
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

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11. The Garden

By: Clare Beams

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more

Similar categories in Clare Beams's The Garden book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • adult
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12. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

By: Debora Harding

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more

Similar categories in Debora Harding's Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

13. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

By: Kelly Sundberg

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Gl… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • abuse
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was only ever leaving. I was leaving when he hit me. Leaving when he screamed “You are a fucking cunt!"

-Kelly Sundberg, Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

Cover of Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped by Lynnette Williams

14. Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped

By: Lynnette Williams

4.50

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the c… read more

Similar categories in Lynnette Williams's Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. A Flaw in the Design

By: Nathan Oates

3.49

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

A professor's life is turned upside down when he takes in his charming, wildly dangerous nephew, wh… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Oates's A Flaw in the Design book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • audiobook
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16. Your Presence Is Mandatory

By: Sasha Vasilyuk

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with a secret … read more

Similar categories in Sasha Vasilyuk's Your Presence Is Mandatory book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • adult
Cover of Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence by Tanya Selvaratnam

17. Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

By: Tanya Selvaratnam

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from for… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • abuse
  • audiobook
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18. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Dear Hanna

By: Zoje Stage

3.73

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Bab… read more

Similar categories in Zoje Stage's Dear Hanna book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • audiobook
Cover of I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir by Sara Kruzan

20. I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir

By: Sara Kruzan

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

There is perhaps no crime more disturbing than the abuse of a child—and no court cases as upsetting… read more

Similar categories in Sara Kruzan's I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • abuse
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

By: Deborah Tuerkheimer

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence … read more

Similar categories in Deborah Tuerkheimer's Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers book and Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

12 must-read adult books like Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

Transform Your Habits

Parkland: Birth of a Movement

Dave Cullen

3.98

Transform Your Habits

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me I'm An Artist

Chelsea Martin

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

Michelle Horton

4.52

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6 Best womens books like No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder

Transform Your Habits

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Transform Your Habits

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Rachel Louise Snyder

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

Tanya Selvaratnam

3.70

Transform Your Habits

See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

Jess Hill

4.66

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