8 best-selling memoir books like Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love by Marylee MacDonald

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Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love

By: Marylee MacDonald

4.26

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Adopted at birth, Marylee’s parents told her she was a “chosen child.” She tried her hardest to mak…

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1. The Blackwater Lightship

By: Colm Tóibín

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come toge… read more

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2. Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir

By: Shenandoah Chefalo

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo's wholly dysfunctional journey through… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adoption
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3. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

By: Tom J. Bross

4.25

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"One of my nipples is noticeably larger than the other two."

-Tom J. Bross, Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

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4. Never Too Late

By: Danielle Steel

4.23

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

An act of terror. A summer of change . . . Never Too Late is a stirring drama about the power of… read more

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5. The Promise of Tomorrow

By: Mary Ellen Taylor

4.30

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Brighter the Light comes the moving story about one woman’s reason for leavi… read more

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6. Birds in Flight

By: Anni Taylor

4.18

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

Two estranged sisters reunite to solve the harrowing mystery of their missing mother. In 1998, t… read more

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7. The Orphan's Island (Amherst Island #1)

By: Katharine Swartz

4.42

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

1904: Ellen Copley is still a child when she leaves behind the sooty rail yards of Glasgow, and cro… read more

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8. The Wild Side

By: Fern Michaels

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly ordinary guidance counselor goes undercover as a high-class escort to bring down a dang… read more

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9. Life's What You Make It

By: Siân O'Gorman

4.32

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Dreams can come true, you just have to believe... After 10 years in London, working in a stressf… read more

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10. I formidabili Frank

By: Michael Frank

3.99

Format: 344 pages, ebook

Un fratello e una sorella sposarono una sorella e un fratello. La coppia più anziana non aveva figl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. Please Protect Us

By: Toni Maguire

4.53

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of shame, silence, abuse and survi… read more

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12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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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13. His Secret Daughter

By: Melissa Wiesner

4.22

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Not Noah. Not my husband. But there he is, unconscious in the hospital bed. Our daughter sobs into … read more

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14. The Family

By: S.E. Green

4.14

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing’s more important than family... Leah When Leah’s daughter, Nyla, unexpectedly appears at … read more

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15. The Memory Library

By: Kate Storey

4.40

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s b… read more

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16. My Sister's Baby

By: Louise Guy

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Your sister once saved your life… Would you repay her with the child she’s always dreamed of? Li… read more

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17. Murder in an Irish Churchyard (Irish Village Mystery, #3)

By: Carlene O'Connor

4.07

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

After joining the police force of her small Irish village, a local woman must investigate the murde… read more

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18. The Sweetest Rain (Flowers of Eden #1)

By: Myra Johnson

4.49

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Her family’s survival matters more than anything…even her own heart. As the 1930 drought burns cro… read more

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19. Secrets of a Marine's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Obsession, and Murder

By: Shanna Hogan

4.16

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In Secrets of a Marine's Wife, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Shann… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. Phoebe's Heart of Stone

By: James J. Hill III

4.30

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Phoebe's Heart of Stone In 1919, an unthinkable tragedy struck the blue-collar town of Alliance Oh… read more

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21. The Road She Left Behind

By: Christine Nolfi

4.15

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

“A great pick for your book club this summer.” —Working Mother Crushed by guilt over the car accid… read more

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22. The Annals of a Country Doctor

By: Carl Matlock

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a country doctor in solo practice in the decade … read more

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  • memoir
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23. Resurrection

By: Danielle Steel

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Darcy Gray is a successful influencer with her blog, The Gray Zone, trusted by more than a million … read more

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24. She Turned Her Head Away: An Adoption Memoir

By: Patricia Moffat

4.33

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Growing up in the closed adoption system of Northern California, Patricia Moffat always felt a yawn… read more

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  • adoption
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25. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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26. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

By: Susan Kiyo Ito

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adoption
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27. Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love

By: Marylee MacDonald

4.26

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Adopted at birth, Marylee’s parents told her she was a “chosen child.” She tried her hardest to mak… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adoption
Cover of Nobody Loves Me: Bobby’s true story of neglect, secrets and abuse by Maggie Hartley

28. Nobody Loves Me: Bobby’s true story of neglect, secrets and abuse

By: Maggie Hartley

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

'Wow! I did not want this book to end. This story was unlike any other' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'… read more

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29. 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
  • biography
"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

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30. Dancing on Daddy's Grave: A Soul-stirring Memoir of Survival, Forgiveness, and Healing

By: Marjorie Hill

4.71

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Dancing on Daddy’s Grave is a soul-stirring memoir born out of a haunting childhood. The book takes… read more

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31. Practically Still a Virgin: An Adoption Memoir

By: Monica Hall

4.59

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Practically Still a Virgin is the riveting memoir of a fifteen-year-old adoptee’s rape —and the pre… read more

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