20 must-read biography books like Kin by Shawna Kay Rodenberg

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Kin

By: Shawna Kay Rodenberg

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrep…

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1. The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

By: Claudia Rowe

3.21

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A true story of a female journalist, her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her … read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rowe's The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Ghostbread

By: Sonja Livingston

4.13

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

“When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through.” Ghostbread makes real for us th… read more

Similar categories in Sonja Livingston's Ghostbread book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
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3. Flashback

By: Dan Simmons

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted … read more

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4. The Memory Palace

By: Mira Bartok

3.24

Format: 0 pages,

The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and t… read more

Similar categories in Mira Bartok's The Memory Palace book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

5. Lie Still

By: Julia Heaberlin

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Emily Page and her husband move from Manhattan to the wealthy enclave of Clairmont, Texas, she… read more

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6. Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose

By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Go Ask Alice was a hoax. But Dear Nobody is a true teen diary so raw and so edgy its authenticity r… read more

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7. Everything She Ever Wanted

By: Ann Rule

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER? OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER? For their wedding portrait, petite Pat … read more

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8. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

By: Jillian Lauren

3.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Lauren's Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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9. 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 Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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10. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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11. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hale's Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • nonfiction
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12. 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 Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • family
"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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13. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

By: Erin Khar

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” — New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Erin Khar's Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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14. While We Were Burning

By: Sara Koffi

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Parasite meets Such a Fun Age in a scorching debut that is as heartbreaking as it is thrilling, exa… read more

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15. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. My Remarkable Journey

By: Katherine G. Johnson

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden … read more

Similar categories in Katherine G. Johnson's My Remarkable Journey book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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17. Innocent: The True Story of Siblings Struggling to Survive

By: Cathy Glass

4.42

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's Innocent: The True Story of Siblings Struggling to Survive book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

By: Daniel Wallace

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Wallace's This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.96

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the fa… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
"Memories appear in flashes of light, in short scenes, in reflections that can make us laugh or bring us to tears."

-Jacqueline Winspear, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir

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20. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

By: Debora Harding

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more

Similar categories in Debora Harding's Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. The Ugly Cry

By: Danielle Henderson

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who wanted to start a new family with her drug-addicted, abu… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Henderson's The Ugly Cry book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were."

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

"Danielle Elizabeth Henderson! Get your ass over here!' she shouted. Grandma always used my full name when she was angry. None of the shoppers around her turned a head or lifted a finger to help; in t…"

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

"My grandparents got creative to make space for three kids in their two-bedroom home. They took one of the bedrooms, my mom and aunt shared the other, and my uncle Bobby slept on the screened-in porch…"

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

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22. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Thornton Plymale's American Daughter book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
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23. Raised in Ruins: A Memoir

By: Tara Neilson

3.97

Format: 272 pages, ebook

An extraordinary memoir of a woman's unconventional childhood growing up in the Alaskan wilderness,… read more

Similar categories in Tara Neilson's Raised in Ruins: A Memoir book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • nonfiction
Cover of American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal

25. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

By: Chris McGreal

4.15

Format: 336 pages, ebook

The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more

Similar categories in Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • nonfiction
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26. Kin

By: Shawna Kay Rodenberg

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrep… read more

Similar categories in Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • unfinished
  • coming of age
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • family
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27. In the Quick

By: Kate Hope Day

3.38

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begi… read more

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28. The Light Years

By: Chris Rush

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent t… read more

Similar categories in Chris Rush's The Light Years book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope by Patrick Dylan

29. Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

By: Patrick Dylan

4.45

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of seven awards, including a National Indie Excellence Award and Best Indie Book Award."Anyo… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable by Sarah Gerard

30. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

By: Sarah Gerard

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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31. Earth to Moon: A Memoir

By: Moon Unit Zappa

4.42

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more

Similar categories in Moon Unit Zappa's Earth to Moon: A Memoir book and Shawna Kay Rodenberg's Kin

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family

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3.21

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4.13

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3.24

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Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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Joan M. Griffin

4.44

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Tara Neilson

3.97

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