11 Best memoir books like Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations) by Anna Sale

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Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

By: Anna Sale

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money , Let’s Talk About Hard Things is “li…

"When we let tensions fester, or allow familiarity to pass for understanding, we tend to leave parts of ourselves out of our most important relationships."

-Anna Sale, Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

If you liked the memoir plot in Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations) by Anna Sale , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard

By: Stephen Jimenez

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Jimenez's The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • nonfiction
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2. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement

By: Denise George , Carolyn Maull McKinstry

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham… read more

Similar categories in Denise George's While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. The Cinderella Rules (Glass Slipper, Inc., #1)

By: Donna Kauffman

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF CINDERELLA IN EVERY WOMAN . . . . . . except Darby Landon, or so she thinks… read more

Similar categories in Donna Kauffman's The Cinderella Rules (Glass Slipper, Inc., #1) book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

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4. The Little Book of Big Dividends: A Safe Formula for Guaranteed Returns

By: Charles B. Carlson

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Everyone needs to invest, but where do you invest during bear markets? The massive stock declines o… read more

Similar categories in Charles B. Carlson's The Little Book of Big Dividends: A Safe Formula for Guaranteed Returns book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • nonfiction
  • business

5. The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai

By: Elizabeth Flock

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

"Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Flock's The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

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6. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

Similar categories in Susan Cain's Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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7. 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 Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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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8. Empty

By: Susan Burton

3.78

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more

Similar categories in Susan Burton's Empty book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"

-Susan Burton, Empty

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9. Will to Wild: Adventures Great and Small to Change Your Life

By: Shelby Stanger

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Embrace adventures both big and small and pursue your wild ideas with this “profoundly inspiring an… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Stanger's Will to Wild: Adventures Great and Small to Change Your Life book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

By: Michele Filgate

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 *Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The… read more

Similar categories in Michele Filgate's What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"His hands are worms, my body dirt."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"I've spent enough time in Catholic churches to know what it means to sweep things underneath the rug."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"Hearing this, I get a flash of pride at the fact that Peter wanted to be with my mother more than she wanted to be with him. This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much…"

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

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11. Survival of the Thickest: Essays

By: Michelle Buteau

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and una… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Buteau's Survival of the Thickest: Essays book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. Calmfidence: How to Trust Yourself, Tame Your Inner Critic, and Shine in Any Spotlight

By: Patricia Stark

3.67

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Learn how to communicate inside and out with calm, confidence, and self-love no matter the circumst… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Stark's Calmfidence: How to Trust Yourself, Tame Your Inner Critic, and Shine in Any Spotlight book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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13. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

By: Aminatou Sow

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can cont… read more

Similar categories in Aminatou Sow's Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • relationships
  • self help
  • personal development
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I love that you've known every version of me. You were there at the beginning and I want you there at the end."

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

"When you are obsessed with your friend's brain, it's natural to crave ordered conversations and excuses to go deeper."

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

"It can be extremely hard to figure out the right amount of growth and sacrifice to be devoting to a friendship, because we're not taught that friends are worth stretching for at all. Your spouse? Def…"

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

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14. Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

By: Anna Sale

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money , Let’s Talk About Hard Things is “li… read more

Similar categories in Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations) book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • communication
  • relationships
  • self help
  • personal development
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"When we let tensions fester, or allow familiarity to pass for understanding, we tend to leave parts of ourselves out of our most important relationships."

-Anna Sale, Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

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15. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

By: Amanda Ripley

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s b… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Ripley's High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • communication
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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16. No Happy Endings

By: Nora McInerny Purmort

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interv… read more

Similar categories in Nora McInerny Purmort's No Happy Endings book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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17. So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience

By: Mark Henick

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

“Mark Henick is a powerful storyteller.” —Rosie O’Donnell “ So-Called Normal is a call to arms, yes… read more

Similar categories in Mark Henick's So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
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18. Rough Trade

By: Katrina Carrasco

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers’ mark… read more

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19. Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves

By: J. Drew Lanham

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow A Field Guide to Bir… read more

Similar categories in J. Drew Lanham's Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • nonfiction
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20. Gone by Nightfall

By: Dee Garretson

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman is torn between her home and her dreams during the Russian Revolution. It’s 1917, … read more

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21. Inside the Belly of an Elephant: A Motorcycle Journey of Loss, Legacy and Ultimate Freedom

By: Todd Lawson

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In 1999 Todd Lawson’s brother, Sean, died tragically of preventable cerebral malaria at the end of … read more

Similar categories in Todd Lawson's Inside the Belly of an Elephant: A Motorcycle Journey of Loss, Legacy and Ultimate Freedom book and Anna Sale's Let's Talk About Hard Things (A Guide for Difficult Conversations)

  • memoir

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3.72

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3.99

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