19 must-read memoir books like Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother by Stacey Aaronson

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Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother

By: Stacey Aaronson

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Gilmore Girls meets Terms of Endearment in this candid, humorous, and touching story of an uncommon…

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1. His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy

By: Susan Ray Schmidt

4.43

Format: 303 pages,

His Favorite Wifeis the heart-stopping, inspirational narrative of a courageous, fifteen-year-old g… read more

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2. Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

By: Teresa Van Woy

4.56

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Abducted by her mentally unstable mother, one girl forages her way to the top. "A gripping account… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Displaced: A Memoir by Esther Wiebe

4. Displaced: A Memoir

By: Esther Wiebe

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Displaced is a gripping true story of a young girl and her young siblings’ escape from a conservat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine by J. Thomas Grant

6. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World by Gregg Olsen

7. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Snipers We Couldn't See: A Memoir of Growing up with my Mother's Schizophrenia by Karen Comba

8. The Snipers We Couldn't See: A Memoir of Growing up with my Mother's Schizophrenia

By: Karen Comba

4.19

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

The Snipers We Couldn't See is Karen Comba's memoir of rare power, a harrowing and intimate portrai… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Dying to Be Her (Empty Coffin, #2) by Gregg Olsen

9. Dying to Be Her (Empty Coffin, #2)

By: Gregg Olsen

3.96

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Just as the lightning bolt of memory passed, a pair of hands grabbed Olivia’s shoulders and shoved … read more

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10. Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

By: Kathryn Foster

3.94

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Addy Conrad, psychologist, encounters the ethical minefield common to private practice. Susan, … read more

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  • memoir
Cover of MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy by Rick Cormier

11. MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

By: Rick Cormier

4.18

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

"Some people assume that all therapists are new-agey hand-holders who just listen and nod like bobb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Love is how you treat someone."

-Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

"Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them."

-Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

"Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow."

-Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

"There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your com…"

-Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

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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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter by Lynn  Walker

13. Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter

By: Lynn Walker

4.35

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Lynn was the carefree daughter of a Miami undercover narcotics agent—until her dad snuck out of the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity. by Julia Walker

14. Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity.

By: Julia Walker

4.35

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Hazel Lamb…Lindsey, but my momma called me Fireball. I am 84 years old. I only had one y… read more

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  • memoir
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15. Glad Farm

By: Catherine Marenghi

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Cath… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. I Almost Lost Her : A memoir of unthinkable tragedy

By: Andre Xavier

4.32

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

André Xavier’s life was forever changed by a single phone call on a sunny September morning. On … read more

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17. Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation

By: Stefanie Schaffer

4.61

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Without Any Warning is a first-hand account of the accident that changed Stefanie Schaffer’s life—b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family by Janet Smuga

18. Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family

By: Janet Smuga

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Damaged is a story of survivor's guilt coupled with resentment tempered by love. It reveals the cha… read more

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19. Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

By: Pidgeon Pagonis

4.37

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Hey, hey, listen,"

-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

"The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be."

-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

Cover of BUTTER SIDE UP, THANK GOD!: A MEMOIR by Tina Wagner Mattern

20. BUTTER SIDE UP, THANK GOD!: A MEMOIR

By: Tina Wagner Mattern

4.36

Format: 493 pages, Kindle Edition

This memoir is the true, no holds barred story of my incredibly blessed, ridiculously messy life. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by Meredith O'Brien

21. Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

By: Meredith O'Brien

4.32

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of My Every Breath: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope by Anna Maynard

22. My Every Breath: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope

By: Anna Maynard

4.50

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

The compelling story of a woman's lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis and her astonishing resilien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of From the Flood: A Memoir by Suzanne    Jones

23. From the Flood: A Memoir

By: Suzanne Jones

4.24

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

**GOLD Winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award** **2022 American Writers Awar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of San Francisco's Hottest Cold Case: How I Exposed a Police Cover-Up and Solved My Father's Murder by Jon Kinyon

24. San Francisco's Hottest Cold Case: How I Exposed a Police Cover-Up and Solved My Father's Murder

By: Jon Kinyon

4.27

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

"Something clearly stinks in how police handled this case." - Tony Serra, famed Civil Rights Attorn… read more

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Cover of Revelation: A Memoir of Deep Family Secrets, Discovery, and Identity by Richard Gary Kaye

25. Revelation: A Memoir of Deep Family Secrets, Discovery, and Identity

By: Richard Gary Kaye

4.10

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Richard (Rick) Gary Kaye’s intimate memoir is a riveting story about a devastating family secret hi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother

By: Stacey Aaronson

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Gilmore Girls meets Terms of Endearment in this candid, humorous, and touching story of an uncommon… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss by Erin Benson

27. I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss

By: Erin Benson

4.34

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a story about a boy who lived. Or parents who risked it all to save their child. Or mir… read more

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Cover of Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist by Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff

28. Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

By: Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff

3.88

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

When Pinny started work as a psychotherapist, little did she imagine the shocking stories her clien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...if people ever knew who walks among us freely, they’d never leave their homes."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

"I'd imagined my job would involve playing jump rope and weaving lanyards, but, instead, I'd landed inside a jail for kids."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

Cover of Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later by Christine Faour

29. Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later

By: Christine Faour

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

A patriarchal, fundamentalist and abusive cult that was hidden in plain sight. The Amazon Prime doc… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Alacrity: My Saga of Survival by Skye Galvas

30. Alacrity: My Saga of Survival

By: Skye Galvas

4.30

Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition

"I could not put this book down! Skye is so brave and is a true survivor. Excellent read!" -Jennif… read more

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Cover of The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth by Minu Cash

31. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

21 must-read nonfiction books like Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother by Stacey Aaronson

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Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

Teresa Van Woy

4.56

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LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

Aphrodite Jones

4.32

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Displaced: A Memoir

Esther Wiebe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

James Renner

3.74

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The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

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Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

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3.77

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Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults

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