14 best-selling nonfiction books like Widowish by Melissa Gould

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Widowish

By: Melissa Gould

4.12

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Melissa Gould’s hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love. When…

"I felt like I was failing at widowhood. I missed my husband, but no one knew that when they looked at me. They just saw a mom with blonde highlights going to yoga, picking up her daughter from school, buying groceries at Trader Joe’s. And now I was at a party with a date when I should have been home, grieving, all alone. I didn’t look like a widow. I wasn’t acting like a widow. But I felt like a widow. I guess I was just widowish."

-Melissa Gould, Widowish

"I felt like I was failing at widowhood. I missed my husband, but no one knew that when they looked at me. They just saw a mom with blonde highlights going to yoga, picking up her daughter from school, buying groceries at Trader Joe’s. And now I was at a party with a date when I should have been home, grieving, all alone. I didn’t look like a widow. I wasn’t acting like a widow. But I felt like a widow. I guess I was just widowish."

-Melissa Gould, Widowish

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Widowish by Melissa Gould , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Coming Clean

By: Kimberly Rae Miller

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stunning memoir about a childhood spent growing up in a family of extreme hoarders and hiding squ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): How the Silver Fox Became a Dog

By: Lee Alan Dugatkin , None

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears t… read more

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3. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.

By: Julie Holland

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych … read more

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4. The Shadow Box

By: Luanne Rice

4.21

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wif… read more

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  • audiobook
"Protection came in many forms. My love of nature and my father, and their love for me, had made me strong and brave, and I had survived."

-Luanne Rice, The Shadow Box

"I stared into the lion’s eyes and knew that he could take me down so easily. He’d swipe me with his curved claws, clamp his fangs around my throat or my skull, kill me in an instant."

-Luanne Rice, The Shadow Box

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5. Blank

By: Zibby Owens

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a… read more

Similar categories in Zibby Owens's Blank book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Twisted: The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe by John Glatt

6. Twisted: The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

He Had A Successful Career, A Selfless Wife, And Three Loving Children. When high school sweetheart… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Twisted: The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

By: Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more

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  • romance
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Married to the Man Who Washed Himself Away: A memoir: The true story of how obsession tore a family apart

By: Joan Leech

4.27

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

This extraordinary true story will move you to tears and inspire you to never give up. Set in No… read more

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9. Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

By: Zibby Owens

3.63

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by … read more

Similar categories in Zibby Owens's Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Place for Us: A Memoir by Brandon J. Wolf

10. A Place for Us: A Memoir

By: Brandon J. Wolf

4.32

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the most vital and passionate LGBTQ+ activists comes a powerful memoir about self-disco… read more

Similar categories in Brandon J. Wolf's A Place for Us: A Memoir book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers

By: Royd Tolkien

4.03

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

An inspirational, life-affirming memoir from the great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien. Having grown … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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12. Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.06

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Stone Family Heart (South Port Beach Romances #2)

By: Taylor Hart

4.54

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman looking for a vacation. A man who hates vacations. Will a hurricane re-kindle a long lost l… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Hart's The Stone Family Heart (South Port Beach Romances #2) book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • romance
Cover of Determination (The Chaplain's Legacy, #2) by Mary Kingswood

14. Determination (The Chaplain's Legacy, #2)

By: Mary Kingswood

4.39

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

One man with a secret. A family torn apart by the consequences. Mr Bertram Atherton has one foot… read more

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  • romance
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15. The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

By: Josiah Hartley

4.34

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling novelist Amanda Prowse knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son … read more

Similar categories in Josiah Hartley's The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Murder of Innocents (Innocents #2)

By: Michael Swiger

4.67

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A terrorist explosion rocks a peaceful Ohio Valley community and triggers a nationwide manhunt. A t… read more

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17. The Speed of Light

By: Elissa Grossell Dickey

3.93

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling and provocative debut novel told in intersecting timelines over a tumultuous, defining… read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
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18. Valencia and Valentine

By: Suzy Krause

3.49

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, debut author Suzy Krause delivers a quirky, col… read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
"Do you know how much of my life I spent waiting for something terrible to happen? I was obsessed with it, consumed by it I spent every moment dreading it--and all of a sudden, here it was, and it was…"

-Suzy Krause, Valencia and Valentine

Cover of Widowish by Melissa  Gould

19. Widowish

By: Melissa Gould

4.12

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Melissa Gould’s hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love. When… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Gould's Widowish book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • romance
  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I felt like I was failing at widowhood. I missed my husband, but no one knew that when they looked at me. They just saw a mom with blonde highlights going to yoga, picking up her daughter from school…"

-Melissa Gould, Widowish

Cover of Wholly Unraveled: A Memoir by Keele Burgin

20. Wholly Unraveled: A Memoir

By: Keele Burgin

3.99

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes all that it takes to start over is the courage to say you will. In Kathleen’s home, red … read more

Similar categories in Keele Burgin's Wholly Unraveled: A Memoir book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Up and Down: Victories and Struggles in the Course of Life by Bubba Watson

21. Up and Down: Victories and Struggles in the Course of Life

By: Bubba Watson

4.00

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

He was a small-town boy who burst onto the international golf scene with a dramatic hook shot from … read more

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  • biography
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22. Adulting

By: Liz Talley

4.04

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

USA Today bestselling author Liz Talley’s emotional and heart-lifting novel about facing the past, … read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World by Devorah Heitner

23. Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World

By: Devorah Heitner

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on helping kids navigate growing up in a world where nearly every moment of the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fat Mom on a Mountain: Fifty Weeks that Restored My Life by Kriste O'Brien

24. Fat Mom on a Mountain: Fifty Weeks that Restored My Life

By: Kriste O'Brien

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Kriste was overweight and turning fifty. Her approaching birthday milestone was a harsh reminder th… read more

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Cover of The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out by William Dameron

25. The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out

By: William Dameron

3.94

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

A candid memoir of denial, stolen identities, betrayal, faking it, and coming out. Do you know me?… read more

Similar categories in William Dameron's The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg

26. Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic

By: Emma Goldberg

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of In Her Grave (Detective Billie Ann Wilde #3) by Willow Rose

27. In Her Grave (Detective Billie Ann Wilde #3)

By: Willow Rose

4.49

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

A killer lurking in the shadows. A detective who will do whatever it takes to protect her family…Ru… read more

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28. The Man with No Borders

By: Richard C. Morais

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A father comes to terms with his mortality and secrets in a heartrending novel of family and forgiv… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Booklover's Library by Madeline  Martin

29. The Booklover's Library

By: Madeline Martin

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that… read more

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30. The Anti-Heroes

By: Jen Lancaster

3.91

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Two best friends, stalled and dissatisfied, change the course of their lives in a wildly funny nove… read more

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Cover of Forces of Nature: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Finding Home by Gina DeMillo Wagner

31. Forces of Nature: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Finding Home

By: Gina DeMillo Wagner

4.76

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Gina DeMillo Wagner's brother Alan had a rare genetic disorder that caused him to veer from loving … read more

Similar categories in Gina DeMillo Wagner's Forces of Nature: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Finding Home book and Melissa Gould's Widowish

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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