7 Best biography books like Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer by Catherine Guthrie

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Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer

By: Catherine Guthrie

4.45

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

"A darn good read .” —Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and New York Times bestselling au…

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1. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

By: Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry

4.06

Format: 687 pages, Paperback

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Deciding that his own life expectancy was directly proportional to his usefulness to Manson, Crockett made himself very useful, volunteering his truck to haul in supplies, and so forth."

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in the…"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor …"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"One day Manson tried with me. I stared right back, holding his gaze until his hands started shaking. During the recess, I slid my chair over next to his and asked, "What are you trembling about, Char…"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

2. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

4.06

Format: 663 pages,

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more

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3. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more

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4. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more

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5. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

By: William Deresiewicz

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more

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6. The New Generation Breast Cancer Book: How to Navigate Your Diagnosis and Treatment Options-and Remain Optimistic-in an Age of Information Overload

By: None

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

From an expert in the field comes the definitive guide to managing breast cancer in the information… read more

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7. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

By: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help… read more

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8. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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9. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • feminism
  • lgbt
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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10. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

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11. The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)

By: Krystal Marquis

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1910, the Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changin… read more

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"Olivia remembered the moment she'd realized that every Black person she knew was touched by the horror of slavery. Sometimes Olivia felt it like a wound hidden deep under smooth skin—one that she did…"

-Krystal Marquis, The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)

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12. How to Keep House While Drowning

By: K.C. Davis

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

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13. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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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

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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16. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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18. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

By: Jen Gunter

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Just as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s m… read more

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  • medical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • health
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19. Women and Children First

By: Alina Grabowski

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more

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20. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

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21. In the Time of the Butterflies

By: Julia Alvarez

4.15

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days… read more

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22. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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23. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

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24. Take More Vacations: How to Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World

By: Scott Keyes

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

** USAToday Bestseller ** The founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights explains why we’re searching for air… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer by Catherine Guthrie

25. Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer

By: Catherine Guthrie

4.45

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

"A darn good read .” —Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and New York Times bestselling au… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • medical
  • feminism
  • health
  • nonfiction
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26. I Am Not Okay with This

By: Charles Forsman

3.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Sydney seems like a normal 15-year-old freshman. She hangs out underneath the bleachers, listens to… read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism by R. Derek Black

27. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

By: R. Derek Black

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America by Kate Pickert

28. Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America

By: Kate Pickert

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The science, culture and history of breast cancer as told by a reporter who survived it As a hea… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Flat and Happy: Mastectomy and Flat Closure - A Personal, Practical Guide by Katrin van Dam

29. Flat and Happy: Mastectomy and Flat Closure - A Personal, Practical Guide

By: Katrin van Dam

4.86

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

The weeks leading up to mastectomy surgery or the removal of an implant are often filled with scary… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Talking to My Tatas: All You Need to Know from a Breast Cancer Researcher and Survivor by Dana Brantley-Sieders

30. Talking to My Tatas: All You Need to Know from a Breast Cancer Researcher and Survivor

By: Dana Brantley-Sieders

3.67

Format: 292 pages, ebook

With humor and empathy, Dana Brantley-Sieders explores the science and realities of breast cancer f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Flat As A Pancake: My Story of Breast Deconstruction, How I Lost My Boobs And Found Myself by Lisa Konstadt

31. Flat As A Pancake: My Story of Breast Deconstruction, How I Lost My Boobs And Found Myself

By: Lisa Konstadt

4.26

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Lisa Konstadt was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 44 years old. She had to make decision… read more

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13 Top nonfiction books like Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer by Catherine Guthrie

Transform Your Habits

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry

4.06

Transform Your Habits

How to Keep House While Drowning

K.C. Davis

4.25

Transform Your Habits

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maggie Smith

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

Zibby Owens

3.63

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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