11 best-selling crime books like Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence by Tanya Selvaratnam

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Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

By: Tanya Selvaratnam

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from for…

If you liked the crime plot in Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence by Tanya Selvaratnam , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

By: Dani Shapiro

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, l… read more

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2. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

By: Keri Blakinger

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more

Similar categories in Keri Blakinger's Corrections in Ink: A Memoir book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

By: Clancy Martin

3.71

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more

Similar categories in Clancy Martin's How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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6. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist

By: Sesali Bowen

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-bre… read more

Similar categories in Sesali Bowen's Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

By: Stephanie Wittels Wachs

4.29

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The space between life and death is a moment. But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousa… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Wittels Wachs's Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I often wonder when this will all end, but there is no end to grief. There's only navigating the way to a new normal."

-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

"I noted how small I was compared to the sky. I saw that the world is beautiful. I heard my daughter say, "Wow." And I felt grateful."

-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

"I finally understand the meaning of acceptance on the grief chart. It’s not that the bereaved ever accepts the death of the loved one—I will never accept your death—it’s that you come to accept that …"

-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

"I think we're all just doing our best to survive the inevitable pain and suffering that walks alongside us through life. Long ago, it was wild animals and deadly poxes and harsh terrain. I learned ab…"

-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

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8. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

By: Holly Marie

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing.   At ten months old, H… read more

Similar categories in Holly Marie's Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

By: Sarah Weinman

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • crime
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

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11. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Everything is Perfect: A Memoir

By: Kate Nason

4.17

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven years into her second marriage, Kate Nason discovered her husband was cheating on her. Then, … read more

Similar categories in Kate Nason's Everything is Perfect: A Memoir book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

By: Michelle Bowdler

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Bowdler's Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

By: Kelly Sundberg

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Gl… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Sundberg's Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • abuse
  • audiobook
"I was only ever leaving. I was leaving when he hit me. Leaving when he screamed “You are a fucking cunt!"

-Kelly Sundberg, Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

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15. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

By: Rachel Monroe

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Monroe's Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • feminism
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"

-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

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16. Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

By: Tanya Selvaratnam

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from for… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • abuse
  • womens
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships

By: Sheva Rajaee

4.43

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A powerful CBT approach to help you find freedom from obsessive relationship anxiety, doubt, and fe… read more

Similar categories in Sheva Rajaee's Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"We must respond to life's most difficult questions by humbly conceding 'I don't know the answer, and that's okay."

-Sheva Rajaee, Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships

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18. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

By: Piper Weiss

3.27

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir— The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep… read more

Similar categories in Piper Weiss's You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

By: Jess Hill

4.66

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more

Similar categories in Jess Hill's See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

20. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)

By: Leigh Goodmark

4.66

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism--to protect criminalized survivors of gender… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Goodmark's Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8) book and Tanya Selvaratnam's Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

  • womens
  • feminism
  • nonfiction

5 must-read womens books like Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence by Tanya Selvaratnam

Transform Your Habits

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Transform Your Habits

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Rachel Louise Snyder

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

Tanya Selvaratnam

3.70

Transform Your Habits

See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

Jess Hill

4.66

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16 Best audiobook books like Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler

Transform Your Habits

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Transform Your Habits

How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Bari Weiss

4.19

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