5 must-read essays books like Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun

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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

By: Ada Calhoun

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not …

"Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

If you liked the essays plot in Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money

By: Geneen Roth

3.67

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our gr… read more

Similar categories in Geneen Roth's Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
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2. Fire Sermon

By: Jamie Quatro

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Married twenty years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children, Maggie is drawn ine… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Quatro's Fire Sermon book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • marriage
"I walked under the arch—Empire State Building in front, Freedom Tower behind—glorious to be here, on this day, some new beat in my vascular system, an anticipatory cadence that matched the wider puls…"

-Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon

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3. The Wicked + The Divine: Year One

By: Kieron Gillen , Matthew Wilson , Clayton Cowles , Jamie McKelvie

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matthew Wilson return with an Eisner Award-nominated modern fanta… read more

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4. A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live

By: Emily P. Freeman

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The majority of us would not necessarily define ourselves as artists. We're parents, students, busi… read more

Similar categories in Emily P. Freeman's A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • nonfiction

5. Better Now: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

By: Danielle Martin

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

DR. DANIELLE MARTIN see the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and … read more

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6. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • relationships
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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7. 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 Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • self help
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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

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8. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Thornton's Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. No Two Persons

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.09

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s N… read more

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  • audiobook
"All that matters is that we try. pg. 79"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Guilt is easier to drown in than any sorrow. pg. 245"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Always start with words. Words last. Tell me a secret from your day."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Did you know that otters sleep holding hands? All night long, so they don't lose each other."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

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10. 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 Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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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11. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • marriage
  • audiobook
"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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12. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Congratulations, the Best is Over! book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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13. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

By: Mary Laura Philpott

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more

Similar categories in Mary Laura Philpott's Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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14. Girls and Their Horses

By: Eliza Jane Brazier

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cut… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Jane Brazier's Girls and Their Horses book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • audiobook
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15. Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

By: Duchess Goldblatt

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseu… read more

Similar categories in Duchess Goldblatt's Becoming Duchess Goldblatt book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"After a certain point, people lose patience with your grief. They just want you to move on."

-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

"If you’ve ever wondered what the right thing is to say to someone who’s grieving a death, I think this is it: Tell me all about your dear one."

-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

"When someone you love dies, you lose them in pieces over time, but you also get them back in pieces: little fragments of memory come rushing back through what they cared about, what brought them joy.…"

-Duchess Goldblatt, Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

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16. 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 Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun

17. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

By: Ada Calhoun

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not … read more

Similar categories in Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • relationships
  • self help
  • love
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

"...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall."

-Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

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18. 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 Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • relationships
  • memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. If We're Being Honest

By: Cat Shook

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s deb… read more

Similar categories in Cat Shook's If We're Being Honest book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • humor
  • audiobook
"As it turns out porn does not automatically make a computer implode."

-Cat Shook, If We're Being Honest

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20. The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando

By: William J. Mann

4.09

Format: 736 pages, ebook

Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly B… read more

Similar categories in William J. Mann's The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

By: Maggie Mertens

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive, edge-of-your-seat story of how… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Mertens's Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women book and Ada Calhoun's Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Harrison Scott Key

4.07

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

Sarah Thornton

3.77

Transform Your Habits

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Erica Bauermeister

4.09

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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No Two Persons

Erica Bauermeister

4.09

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Chris Bachelder

3.83

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Catherine Newman

3.75

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