7 Best biography memoir books like Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind by Barbara Becker

Cover of Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind by Barbara  Becker

Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

By: Barbara Becker

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut mem…

"We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love."

-Barbara Becker, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind by Barbara Becker , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller, Michael Lerner

1. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more

Similar categories in Francis Weller's The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • death
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

2. Jesus Land: A Memoir

By: Julia Scheeres

3.50

Format: 262 pages,

For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundam… read more

Similar categories in Julia Scheeres's Jesus Land: A Memoir book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

3. After This: When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go?

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

In After This, acclaimed author, and therapist Claire Bidwell Smith confronts the question she enco… read more

Similar categories in Claire Bidwell Smith's After This: When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go? book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

4. The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

By: None

3.20

Format: 192 pages,

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of ev… read more

Similar categories in None's The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

5. Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe

By: Dawn Tripp

5.00

Format: 29 pages,

A novel about the life of American master painter Georgia O'Keeffe, her love story with photographe… read more

Similar categories in Dawn Tripp's Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

Cover of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

6. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • death
  • audiobook
Cover of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

7. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

8. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

9. 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 Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • 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

Cover of Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott

10. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • audiobook
Cover of Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully by Julie McFadden

12. Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully

By: Julie McFadden

4.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embr… read more

Similar categories in Julie McFadden's Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • audiobook
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay by Cyndie Spiegel

13. Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay

By: Cyndie Spiegel

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspir… read more

Similar categories in Cyndie Spiegel's Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of The Days I Loved You Most by Amy  Neff

14. The Days I Loved You Most

By: Amy Neff

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Unforgettable and utterly romantic, The Days I Loved You Most is a heart-wrenching, life-affirming … read more

Similar categories in Amy Neff's The Days I Loved You Most book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • audiobook
Cover of Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens by Kate Bowler

15. Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens

By: Kate Bowler

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more

Similar categories in Kate Bowler's Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe

16. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

By: Will Schwalbe

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more

Similar categories in Will Schwalbe's We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor

17. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

4.19

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more

Similar categories in Mary-Frances O'Connor's The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

18. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Cover of Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur

19. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

Similar categories in Alua Arthur's Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • memoir
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale

20. Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

By: Sallie Tisdale

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, … read more

Similar categories in Sallie Tisdale's Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We share a grand social agreement about mortality. We choose not to notice, if we can."

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

"Our ideals about a so-called good death are constricting. Death is not something at which we succeed or fail, something to achieve. Life and death are not possessions."

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

"…grief is not a disease to be cured. Grief is a wound, not unlike that from a knife or a bludgeon. The injury will heal in time leaving a scar but the tissue is never quite the same. One moves forwar…"

-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Cover of A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira

21. A Wild and Heavenly Place

By: Robin Oliveira

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Mary Sutter comes a sweeping story of star… read more

Similar categories in Robin Oliveira's A Wild and Heavenly Place book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • audiobook
Cover of The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City by Kim  Foster

22. The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City

By: Kim Foster

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in Americ… read more

Similar categories in Kim Foster's The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

23. Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance

By: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

4.60

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

We are part of a complex Church community―full of people who think differently than we do, behave i… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye's Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Here After by Amy  Lin

24. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lin's Here After book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns by Dina Gachman

25. So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns

By: Dina Gachman

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author an… read more

Similar categories in Dina Gachman's So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind by Barbara  Becker

26. Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

By: Barbara Becker

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut mem… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
  • illness
  • audiobook
"We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love."

-Barbara Becker, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

Cover of Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss by Gina Moffa

27. Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss

By: Gina Moffa

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Licensed grief and trauma therapist Gina Moffa illuminates a non-linear path through grief, with to… read more

Similar categories in Gina Moffa's Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community by Larry Yang

28. Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

By: Larry Yang

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

“ Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, co… read more

Similar categories in Larry Yang's Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Getting to Know Death: A Meditation by Gail Godwin

29. Getting to Know Death: A Meditation

By: Gail Godwin

3.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times -bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a considerat… read more

Similar categories in Gail Godwin's Getting to Know Death: A Meditation book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

30. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

Similar categories in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Lovely One: A Memoir book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist by Jane Rosenberg

31. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist

By: Jane Rosenberg

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom… read more

Similar categories in Jane Rosenberg's Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist book and Barbara Becker's Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

24 must-read audiobook books like Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind by Barbara Becker

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

View all the books

18 must-read audiobook books like The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.