7 must-read self help books like BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate

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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…

If you liked the self help plot in BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
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2. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

By: Kate Flannery

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more

Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

3. 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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. 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • 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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6. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

7. 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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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8. Pineapple Street

By: Jenny Jackson

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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9. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

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10. The Celebrants

By: Steven Rowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

Cover of Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny

11. 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
"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)

Cover of It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward by Elizabeth Passarella

12. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Passarella's It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

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13. 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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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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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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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15. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
Cover of We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe

16. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

By: Will Schwalbe

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more

Similar categories in Will Schwalbe's We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Drinking Games

By: Sarah Levy

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived — until… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Levy's Drinking Games book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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18. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

19. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay , a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol book and Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate

20. 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • self help
Cover of We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of) by Hannah Pittard

21. 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 Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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