16 Best memoir books like My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act by Anna Kloots

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My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act

By: Anna Kloots

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scen…

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1. The Five-Star Weekend

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend … read more

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"She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow."

-Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

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2. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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3. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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4. The Woman in Me

By: Britney Spears

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

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5. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

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  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

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6. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • audiobook
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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7. The Paradise Problem

By: Christina Lauren

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery ch… read more

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  • audiobook
"When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters"

-Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

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8. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

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"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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10. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

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"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

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11. Summer Romance

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more

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"I am the architect of my own experience."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

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12. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

By: Kate Kennedy

3.78

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

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14. Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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17. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

By: Maggie Bullock

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Grimoire Girl: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief

By: Hilarie Burton Morgan

4.23

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller  The long-awaited next book from actress and New York Times bestselling … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up

By: Andy Cohen

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! New York Times bestselling author Andy Cohen goes from bott… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

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  • audiobook
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23. The Christmas Orphans Club

By: Becca Freeman

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From bookfluencer and host of the BAD ON PAPER podcast, a riotous holiday rom-com about four friend… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want Kids (…Until I Did) by Taylor Wolfe

24. Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want Kids (…Until I Did)

By: Taylor Wolfe

4.52

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The funny and poignant story of one woman’s wonderfully codependent relationship with her dog – and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers

By: Stephanie McNeal

3.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unfiltered, colorful romp through the IRL world of influencers that spills the tea on the multib… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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26. The Shift

By: Tinx

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The lifestyle creator, advice expert, and host of the It’s Me, Tinx podcast shares her hilarious an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I was in dicksand. I was dicknotized."

-Tinx, The Shift

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27. My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act

By: Anna Kloots

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scen… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Two O'Clock on a Tuesday at Trevi Fountain: A Search for an Unconventional Life Abroad

By: Helene Sula

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring memoir—the antidote to the “just quit your job and ditch all your belongings to b… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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29. The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself

By: Alli Webb

3.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, had it all--until she didn't. When Drybar and its world-famous blo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero by Amanda Kloots

30. Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero

By: Amanda Kloots

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star and Tony-nom… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Everything We Never Knew

By: Julianne Hough

3.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and heartwarming novel from Emmy Award winner Julianne Hough and Rule author Ellen Goodl… read more

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  • audiobook

30 Top audiobook books like My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act by Anna Kloots

Transform Your Habits

The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears

3.86

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21 Best audiobook books like The Messy Truth: How I Sold My Business for Millions but Almost Lost Myself by Alli Webb

Transform Your Habits

Stash: My Life in Hiding

Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Transform Your Habits

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Transform Your Habits

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Kate Kennedy

3.78

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