13 must-read biography books like Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky

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Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

By: Heather Havrilesky

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice …

"I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself."

-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

"I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself."

-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

"But we weren’t married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted."

-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

"But we weren’t married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted."

-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

If you liked the biography plot in Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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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 Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • biography
  • 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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3. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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4. 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

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • humor
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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5. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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6. Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

By: Amanda Oliver

3.25

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Who are libraries for, how have they evolved, and why do they fill so many roles in our society tod… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Oliver's Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

By: Jessi Klein

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more

Similar categories in Jessi Klein's I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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8. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Amy Bloom

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two… read more

Similar categories in Amy Bloom's In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • 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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10. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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12. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

By: Angela Garbes

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America… read more

Similar categories in Angela Garbes's Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible,"

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"Doing this requires knowledge of the history of mothering and care work—how they came to be seen as naturally female, which is to say invisible and undervalued."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

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13. But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

By: Kimberly Harrington

3.69

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour , Kimberl… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Harrington's But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. In general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about …"

-Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

"He is not curious about my work, I am not curious about his. I’m general, we stopped asking each other how we were, what we thought, and what we wanted a long time ago. We stopped being curious about…"

-Kimberly Harrington, But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

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14. 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

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[...] 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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15. I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

By: Jami Attenberg

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and e… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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16. Lost & Found: A Memoir

By: Kathryn Schulz

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Schulz's Lost & Found: A Memoir book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

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17. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

By: Elizabeth Crane

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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19. Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

By: Heather Havrilesky

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice … read more

Similar categories in Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself."

-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

"But we weren’t married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted."

-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

"Forever is two immortal elves, sipping pink champagne by a burbling stream, then exploring the wild, gorgeous woods around them in everlasting harmony. Forever is set in New Zealand, not New Jersey."

-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

"I wrote this book to explore that tedium, along with everything else that marriage brings: the feeling of safety, the creeping darkness, the raw fear and suspense of growing older together, the tiny …"

-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

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20. The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

By: Sarah Stodola

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its unde… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stodola's The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

21. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Heather Havrilesky's Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

  • audiobook

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3.81

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Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

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3.25

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3.90

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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Meg Kissinger

4.28

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