13 Best memoir books like The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith

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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

By: Jean Kennedy Smith

3.84

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child …

"(Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring."

-Jean Kennedy Smith, The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

If you liked the memoir plot in The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Lisa McCubbin

4.24

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest… read more

Similar categories in Clint Hill's Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"We had been through so much together, mrs. Kennedy and me. More than anyone can imagine. More than anyone can ever know."

-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

"it's been a long time since i've thought about that night, that wonderful raucous night. I can still see the president s surprise and amusement while opening gifts. I can still hear the music, the gu…"

-Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

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2. Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

By: Mimi Alford

3.58

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

In '62, Mimi Beardsley was a naive teen, a product of her class & time. She'd attended the same exc… read more

Similar categories in Mimi Alford's Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • presidents
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill

4.27

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

A rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Clint Hill's Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business."

-Clint Hill, Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

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4. Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jacqueline Bouvier. Ethel Skakel. Joan Bennett. Three women who married into America's royal family… read more

Similar categories in J. Randy Taraborrelli's Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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5. These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie

By: Christopher Andersen

4.15

Format: 333 pages, ebook

#1 New York Timesbestselling biographer "Christopher Andersen has a real track record when it comes… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Andersen's These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • presidents
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Working Girlmeets What Remains, this is the behind-the-scenes story of an unlikely friendship betwe… read more

Similar categories in RoseMarie Terenzio's Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

By: Kate Clifford Larson

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted a… read more

Similar categories in Kate Clifford Larson's Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

8. Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family

By: None

4.62

Format: None pages,

New York TimesBestseller An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen year… read more

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9. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

By: Carole Radziwill

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

"What Remains" is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an… read more

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10. Five Days in November

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Meshare the stories behind the five infam… read more

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11. My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

By: Clint Hill

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal … read more

Similar categories in Clint Hill's My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

By: Eileen McNamara

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing … read more

Similar categories in Eileen McNamara's Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

4.17

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling loo… read more

Similar categories in J. Randy Taraborrelli's Jackie: Public, Private, Secret book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

By: Kate Storey

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Impeccably researched…captivating!” —Elin Hilderbrand * “A well-paced history.” — The New York Tim… read more

Similar categories in Kate Storey's White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Beller's Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

Similar categories in Kate Marshall's Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. The Kennedy Debutante

By: Kerri Maher

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A captivating novel following the exploits of Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, the forgotten and rebellious… read more

Similar categories in Kerri Maher's The Kennedy Debutante book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • audiobook
"I want to tell you how happy you make me. On our last night together you told me I make you happy, but you fell asleep before I could explain just how perfect and wonderful you are, and how perfectly…"

-Kerri Maher, The Kennedy Debutante

"For it was Kick who stole the fame he’d so coveted that night. All eyes were on her. He watched, too, mesmerized. She was so relaxed, despite being completely out of place and hardly the prettiest of…"

-Kerri Maher, The Kennedy Debutante

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18. Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage

By: Christopher Andersen

4.20

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Theirs was one of the great love stories of our time. Indeed, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his wife … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith

19. The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

By: Jean Kennedy Smith

3.84

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child … read more

Similar categories in Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"(Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring."

-Jean Kennedy Smith, The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

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20. Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit

By: Chris Matthews

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by … read more

Similar categories in Chris Matthews's Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

21. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Jean Kennedy Smith's The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

15 best-selling audiobook books like The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith

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Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

Mimi Alford

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill

4.27

Transform Your Habits

These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie

Christopher Andersen

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss

RoseMarie Terenzio

3.89

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17 must-read audiobook books like White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port by Kate Storey

Transform Your Habits

Fairytale Interrupted: What JFK Jr. Taught Me About Life, Love, and Loss

RoseMarie Terenzio

3.89

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

Clint Hill

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

3.99

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