9 must-read biography books like Glad Farm by Catherine Marenghi

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Glad Farm

By: Catherine Marenghi

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Cath…

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Cover of Whisper Mountain by Vivian Higginbotham Nichols

1. Whisper Mountain

By: Vivian Higginbotham Nichols

3.91

Format: 192 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Pearl: Lost Girl of White Oak Mountain by Bill    Yates

2. Pearl: Lost Girl of White Oak Mountain

By: Bill Yates

3.61

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

In the Fall of 1923, three-year-old Pearl Turner disappeared from her home in the mountains of West… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity by Lisa Suzanne Nugent

3. Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

By: Lisa Suzanne Nugent

4.17

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

For many, madness is something read about in books or seen on TV—something scary, foreign, and impo… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Running From The Mirror by Howard Shulman

4. Running From The Mirror

By: Howard Shulman

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined."

-Howard Shulman, Running From The Mirror

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5. Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

By: Teresa Van Woy

4.56

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Abducted by her mentally unstable mother, one girl forages her way to the top. "A gripping account… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Displaced: A Memoir by Esther Wiebe

6. Displaced: A Memoir

By: Esther Wiebe

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Displaced is a gripping true story of a young girl and her young siblings’ escape from a conservat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir by Bobi Conn

7. In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir

By: Bobi Conn

3.79

Format: 296 pages, Library Binding

A clear-eyed and compassionate memoir of the Appalachian experience by a woman who embraced its ast… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Out of the Dust by Joyce E. Patterson

8. Out of the Dust

By: Joyce E. Patterson

4.24

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more

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9. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

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Cover of The Road to Resilience: Velma’s Story (Velma's Story Book 2) by G.L. Gooding

10. The Road to Resilience: Velma’s Story (Velma's Story Book 2)

By: G.L. Gooding

4.42

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the life of author G. L. Gooding's mother, Velma Steele, The Road to Resilience continues … read more

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11. Veda

By: Ellen Gardner

4.18

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

If Veda’s mama hadn’t pounded religion into her “the way she pounded the dirt out of Papa’s overall… read more

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12. Cora Jean

By: Lawrence Gulley

4.51

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Cora Jean is the story of a young girl from the American South, the daughter of a prostitute who is… read more

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13. After All...

By: Maria Trautman

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

She grew up thinking she deserved neglect. Can a young girl escape a loveless home to seize elusive… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of High Cotton: Memoir of a young woman growing up on a New Mexico cotton farm in the post Depression Era by Susan Reynaud Price

14. High Cotton: Memoir of a young woman growing up on a New Mexico cotton farm in the post Depression Era

By: Susan Reynaud Price

4.25

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A coming of age story of a young woman growing up on a cotton farm during the post-depression years… read more

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Cover of Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity. by Julia Walker

15. Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity.

By: Julia Walker

4.35

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Hazel Lamb…Lindsey, but my momma called me Fireball. I am 84 years old. I only had one y… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction by Karen Lynn Nolan

16. Above the Fog: Appalachian Fiction

By: Karen Lynn Nolan

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

When her abusive father swears an oath on her thirteenth birthday that could destroy her family, Co… read more

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17. Mary Dannie

By: Patricia Keil

4.15

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

Mary Dannie transports the reader into the lovely mountains of southeastern Kentucky. It is the sto… read more

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Cover of Uphill All the Way: A Memoir of a Depression Era Family, their trials, tribulations and triumphs. by James Sloter

18. Uphill All the Way: A Memoir of a Depression Era Family, their trials, tribulations and triumphs.

By: James Sloter

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

“It was near the end of February 1944. A light snow was falling as our family of six and a dog star… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Glad Farm by Catherine Marenghi

19. Glad Farm

By: Catherine Marenghi

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Cath… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Marenghi's Glad Farm book and Catherine Marenghi's Glad Farm

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true story
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • book club
Cover of Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family by Janet Smuga

20. Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family

By: Janet Smuga

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Damaged is a story of survivor's guilt coupled with resentment tempered by love. It reveals the cha… read more

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Cover of Secrets on Saulter Road: Discovering Hope and Forgiveness in the Wake of My Toxic Upbringing by Joan Kendall

21. Secrets on Saulter Road: Discovering Hope and Forgiveness in the Wake of My Toxic Upbringing

By: Joan Kendall

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing is ever as it seems...Secrets on Saulter Road is a story of growth, resilience, and hope. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Anger Is My Middle Name: A Memoir by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen

22. Anger Is My Middle Name: A Memoir

By: Lisbeth Zornig Andersen

4.12

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Inexplicable Survival of a Happily Fallible Child by Gary C. Mele, Jr.

23. The Inexplicable Survival of a Happily Fallible Child

By: Gary C. Mele, Jr.

4.37

Format: 539 pages, Kindle Edition

After the loss of his father at the age of four, Gary develops a full reliance on his mother. She i… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of My Every Breath: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope by Anna Maynard

24. My Every Breath: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope

By: Anna Maynard

4.50

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

The compelling story of a woman's lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis and her astonishing resilien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The River by Kevin Weadock

25. The River

By: Kevin Weadock

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The impact of alcoholism on a New York family is described through the eyes of a young boy. The boy… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story by Daniella Dechristopher

26. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story

By: Daniella Dechristopher

4.01

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Rise: A Memoir by Rise Myers

27. Rise: A Memoir

By: Rise Myers

4.22

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

An Ability to Rise Risé was named after the opera star Risë Stevens. It was as if her mother knew t… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of An Only Child and Her Sister by Casey Maxwell Clair

28. An Only Child and Her Sister

By: Casey Maxwell Clair

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

AN ONLY CHILD AND HER SISTER is a compelling true life story. Two sisters born to the same parents … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Wrong Family: For Every Secret, There Is A Family by Charisse Dahlke

29. Wrong Family: For Every Secret, There Is A Family

By: Charisse Dahlke

3.61

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Charisse always felt like she was born into the wrong family and at fourteen finds out that she has… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Dirt Roads and Bare Toes by Jimmy Winstead

30. Dirt Roads and Bare Toes

By: Jimmy Winstead

4.17

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

When times were tough, the lessons learned from childhood to adulthood made you appreciate what lif… read more

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Cover of The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth by Minu Cash

31. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

Similar categories in Minu Cash's The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth book and Catherine Marenghi's Glad Farm

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

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