12 Top biography books like Little Earthquakes: A Memoir by Sarah Mandel

Cover of Little Earthquakes: A Memoir by Sarah Mandel

Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

By: Sarah Mandel

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Sarah Mandel has done something remarkable here. I found myself weeping, laughing with delight and…

If you liked the biography plot in Little Earthquakes: A Memoir by Sarah Mandel , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Losing My Sister: A Memoir by Judy  Goldman

1. Losing My Sister: A Memoir

By: Judy Goldman

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

"Family stories grow to be bigger than the experiences themselves," writes Judy Goldman in her memo… read more

Similar categories in Judy Goldman's Losing My Sister: A Memoir book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

2. 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 Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

3. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Ingrassia's A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

4. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller

5. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Cover of Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston

6. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

7. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Cover of The Winner by Teddy Wayne

8. The Winner

By: Teddy Wayne

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more

Similar categories in Teddy Wayne's The Winner book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

9. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo

10. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

Cover of End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis

11. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Riordan Jarvis's End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

Cover of Reunion by Elise Juska

12. Reunion

By: Elise Juska

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more

Similar categories in Elise Juska's Reunion book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of Moral Injuries by Christie Watson

13. Moral Injuries

By: Christie Watson

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A literary thriller following three best friends since medical school and the twenty-five-year-old … read more

Similar categories in Christie Watson's Moral Injuries book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

Cover of Little Earthquakes: A Memoir by Sarah Mandel

14. Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

By: Sarah Mandel

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Sarah Mandel has done something remarkable here. I found myself weeping, laughing with delight and… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment

15. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words by April Simpkins

16. By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words

By: April Simpkins

4.18

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before he… read more

Similar categories in April Simpkins's By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra

17. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

By: Natalie Dykstra

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Dykstra's Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Liars by Sarah Manguso

18. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard

19. 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 Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity by Ruth Whippman

20. BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity

By: Ruth Whippman

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heart… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Whippman's BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide by Rachel Zimmerman

21. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

By: Rachel Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide book and Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

17 Top audiobook books like Little Earthquakes: A Memoir by Sarah Mandel

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Transform Your Habits

One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Alexandra Fuller

4.01

View all the books

19 Best fiction books like Liars by Sarah Manguso

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Bear

Julia Phillips

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Same As It Ever Was

Claire Lombardo

4.00

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.