10 best-selling memoir books like Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short by William D. Cohan

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Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

By: William D. Cohan

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kenn…

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1. Forever Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.

By: William Sylvester Noonan , Robert Huber

3.84

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

An intimate portrait of the late son of President Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, told by his c… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

2. 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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3. The Life and Loves of a She Devil

By: Fay Weldon

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- sim… read more

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4. The Men We Became: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.

By: None

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For over twenty years Robert Littell was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s closest confidant. Now, in a beautif… read more

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5. The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

By: Paul Landis

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the he… read more

Similar categories in Paul Landis's The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years book and William D. Cohan's Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

6. Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

By: Carl Sferrazza Anthony

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” — The Washington Post An illumi… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

8. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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

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  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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12. Early Sobrieties

By: Michael Deagler

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Don’t worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He’s sober now, ready to rejoin the wo… read more

Similar categories in Michael Deagler's Early Sobrieties book and William D. Cohan's Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

  • audiobook
Cover of Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street by Jeff John Roberts

13. Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

By: Jeff John Roberts

4.01

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

"Tech writer Roberts debuts with a page-turning account of the rise of cryptocurrency exchange Coin… read more

Similar categories in Jeff John Roberts's Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street book and William D. Cohan's Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

14. The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal

By: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

4.24

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that intertwines the iconic narrative of Anne… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

By: Nash Jenkins

3.88

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Prep meets The Secret History in this sprawling debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American p… read more

Similar categories in Nash Jenkins's Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos book and William D. Cohan's Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

  • audiobook
"When I witness certain moments I believe I am a voyeur to the memories being made, and it makes me sad"

-Nash Jenkins, Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

Cover of 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career by Jeffrey Pfeffer

16. 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career

By: Jeffrey Pfeffer

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short by William D. Cohan

17. Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

By: William D. Cohan

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kenn… read more

Similar categories in William D. Cohan's Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short book and William D. Cohan's Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

Similar categories in Howard Blum's When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders book and William D. Cohan's Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

19. 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

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  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

20. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

17 Best audiobook books like Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short by William D. Cohan

Transform Your Habits

The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

Paul Landis

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Transform Your Habits

One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

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21 must-read audiobook books like Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Transform Your Habits

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

Anna Akbari

3.66

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