9 best-selling memoir books like A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana by Haven Kimmel

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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

By: Haven Kimmel

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred…

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1. The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Guatemala)

By: Dianna Ortiz , Sister Dianna Ortiz

3.96

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American Ursuline nun working in Guatemala, was abducted and tortured by go… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. A Rose for Sergei

By: K. Kidd

4.06

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

“Do we really know what we are getting ourselves into…” Sergei Kourdakov jumped from a Russian t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
"Sergei, what are you checking for?"

-K. Kidd, A Rose for Sergei

Cover of A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana by Haven Kimmel

3. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

By: Haven Kimmel

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred… read more

Similar categories in Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
Cover of Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck

4. Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

By: Jennifer Lauck

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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5. My Hero, My Ding

By: Lisa A. Tortorello

4.05

Format: 128 pages, Perfect Paperback

'I awoke in the darkness listening to the sound of a jack hammer. After a few moments, I realized i… read more

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"It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong."

-Lisa A. Tortorello, My Hero, My Ding

Cover of An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books) by Lillian Hellman, Wendy Wasserstein

6. An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

By: Lillian Hellman , Wendy Wasserstein

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"[France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant."

-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

"As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain."

-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

"I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort."

-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

"Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good."

-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

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7. The Ugly Daughter

By: Julia Legian , Dawn Burke

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The Ugly Daughter is a thrilling memoir, the gripping true story of a young girl who witnessed horr… read more

Similar categories in Julia Legian's The Ugly Daughter book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

8. Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism

By: None , None

3.78

Format: None pages,

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9. Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

By: Neil Patrick Harris , None , None

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her fami… read more

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10. Cutted Chicken in Shanghai

By: Sharon Winters

4.01

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

An American woman takes a cultural fling into China and finds humorous and engaging adventures as h… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Winters's Cutted Chicken in Shanghai book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • nonfiction
Cover of Starving for Attention by Cherry Boone O'Neill

11. Starving for Attention

By: Cherry Boone O'Neill

3.89

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

In this dramatic book, Cherry reveals the horrifying cycle that became her own flirtation with deat… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History by Steven Lomazow

12. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

13. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

14. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

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  • book club
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

15. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Cabo Nikolov's Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • book club
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of Affairytale (Affairytale, #1) by C.J. English

16. Affairytale (Affairytale, #1)

By: C.J. English

3.79

Format: 330 pages, None

#1 Amazon kindle bestselling book-diaries and journals. I’d fallen tragically in love with a man… read more

Similar categories in C.J. English's Affairytale (Affairytale, #1) book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I wanted the fairytale."

-C.J. English, Affairytale (Affairytale, #1)

"I needed him like I needed air to breathe."

-C.J. English, Affairytale (Affairytale, #1)

"He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that."

-C.J. English, Affairytale (Affairytale, #1)

"It was impossible not to fall in love with him."

-C.J. English, Affairytale (Affairytale, #1)

Cover of The Red Sea Bride by Sylvia Fowler

17. The Red Sea Bride

By: Sylvia Fowler

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At a language school on the Pacific Ocean, 18-year-old Sylvia falls in love with a devastating youn… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Fowler's The Red Sea Bride book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • nonfiction
Cover of Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path by Beth Koritz

18. Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path

By: Beth Koritz

3.99

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

How many times have you taken a look at your life and thought these words? "Things have got to chan… read more

Similar categories in Beth Koritz's Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Saint Richard Parker by Merlin Franco

19. Saint Richard Parker

By: Merlin Franco

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more

Similar categories in Merlin Franco's Saint Richard Parker book and Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

  • humor
"See you later, tailgater."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Dark is beautiful, brother."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"A saint has control over his anger and itches."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

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20. The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

By: Nancy Omeara

4.33

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

Tired of the "them or us" politics that the Democrats and Republicans are pushing down our throats?… read more

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  • humor
"It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missiles"

-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

"Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place. Maybe we can learn from history before it happens."

-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

"I wheeled and dealed with leaders from all over the world on behalf of the American people. In fact, my favorite headline from Washington Speaks magazine was “She Walks, She Talks, She Negotiates"

-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

"Educate not Legislate Refusing to pass unnecessary laws requires a converse – encouraging education and understanding. We started by slashing the salaries of legislators (Dubbed “Bloodbath on the Bel…"

-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

Cover of Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin by Amber Rose Washington

21. Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin

By: Amber Rose Washington

4.01

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a warm, funny, educational, and very human story... a reminder that we are all just humans … read more

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Dianna Ortiz , Sister Dianna Ortiz

3.96

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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

Haven Kimmel

3.16

Transform Your Habits

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

Jennifer Lauck

4.16

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An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

Lillian Hellman , Wendy Wasserstein

3.92

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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

Jonas Jonasson , Rachel Willson-Broyles

2.00

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4.34

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Jonas Jonasson

3.65

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