11 Top biography memoir books like Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key

Cover of Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key

Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.05

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

A Good Housekeeping Book of the Month This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winn…

"Is a mother excited the baby's going to come out? Yes, yes, of course, so she can take a bath in a vat of gin."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"Is a mother excited the baby's going to come out? Yes, yes, of course, so she can take a bath in a vat of gin."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"My salary increased from $30,000 per year to $50,000, which, after taxes and student loan and car payments, came to forty dollars."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"My salary increased from $30,000 per year to $50,000, which, after taxes and student loan and car payments, came to forty dollars."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Have a New Husband by Friday

By: Kevin Leman

4.14

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction

2. Surprised by Oxford

By: Carolyn Weber

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more

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3. The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer

By: Curtis Wilkie

3.60

Format: None pages, ebook

"Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensit… read more

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4. In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Henri Nouwen was a spiritual thinker with an unusual capacity to write about the life of Jesus and … read more

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5. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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6. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • audiobook
"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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7. 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 Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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

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8. Authority: How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human Flourishing

By: Jonathan Leeman

4.68

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Accessible Guide from 9Marks Equips Believers to Steward Their God-Given Authority In every positi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Leeman's Authority: How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human Flourishing book and Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

  • nonfiction
Cover of Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen

9. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

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11. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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13. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

By: Brian Zahnd

4.53

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more

Similar categories in Brian Zahnd's The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross book and Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew         Wilson

14. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

By: Andrew Wilson

4.51

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

15. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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16. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

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17. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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18. Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire

By: Preston M. Sprinkle

4.45

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

A thoughtful exploration of the intersection of faith and politics, Exiles What if we considered o… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship by Justin Whitmel Earley

19. Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship

By: Justin Whitmel Earley

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Loneliness is the most dangerous and least talked-about epidemic--but Made for People offers a cure… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living by Alan  Noble

20. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

By: Alan Noble

4.33

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Advent: The Season of Hope (Fullness of Time)

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.52

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

"Christians believe not just in one coming of Christ, but in three." We tend to think of Advent as … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley

22. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

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23. The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

By: Clayton M. Christensen

4.28

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message by Winn Collier

24. A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message

By: Winn Collier

4.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This essential authorized biography of Eugene Peterson offers unique insights into the experiences … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? by Jim  Davis

25. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

By: Jim Davis

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • audiobook
Cover of This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane

27. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

By: Elizabeth Crane

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York by Elizabeth Passarella

28. Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from compa… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Passarella's Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York book and Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) by David Zahl

29. Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself)

By: David Zahl

4.35

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A lighthearted yet high-minded exploration of failure's ability to serve as a gateway to grace. Re… read more

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  • nonfiction
"While a low anthropologist may agree with the people around them that a given moral end is important, they will be hesitant to justify the adoption of unsavory means to achieve that end. That is, the…"

-David Zahl, Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself)

"Low anthropology powerfully reframes the way we approach the good or beautiful things done by otherwise disreputable individuals -- namely, as evidence of grace rather than defilement. As musician Ni…"

-David Zahl, Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself)

Cover of Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key

30. Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.05

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

A Good Housekeeping Book of the Month This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winn… read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again? book and Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • southern
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
  • audiobook
"Is a mother excited the baby's going to come out? Yes, yes, of course, so she can take a bath in a vat of gin."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"My salary increased from $30,000 per year to $50,000, which, after taxes and student loan and car payments, came to forty dollars."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"I wanted to share the new [written] work with my wife, but decided not to, as she was pregnant and now generally only answered questions about nachos."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

"I tried church [to meet guys],' she said. 'I bet you hate it.' 'I do.' I couldn't argue with that. Churches can be frightening places, full of friendly old people."

-Harrison Scott Key, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

Cover of Glory Days: Stories by Simon Rich

31. Glory Days: Stories

By: Simon Rich

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Audiobook

The new collection of stories capturing the travails of aging Millennials from “one of the funniest… read more

Similar categories in Simon Rich's Glory Days: Stories book and Harrison Scott Key's Congratulations, Who Are You Again?

  • humor
  • essays
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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Everything Sad Is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri

4.32

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

Collin Hansen

4.56

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Transform Your Habits

Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Jennie Allen

4.24

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