15 Best memoir books like All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir by Erin Lee Carr

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All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

By: Erin Lee Carr

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New Yo…

"No one gets to choose the traits they inherit from their parents."

-Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

"No one gets to choose the traits they inherit from their parents."

-Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

"The reward for achievement is a hunger for more, a blessing that lives inside a curse."

-Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

"The reward for achievement is a hunger for more, a blessing that lives inside a curse."

-Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

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1. Assembling California

By: John McPhee

4.22

Format: 432 pages,

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the compa… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks

By: Howard Behar

4.20

Format: 24 pages,

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3. It Was Me All Along

By: Andie Mitchell

3.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A young food blogger shares her inspiring story of incredible weight loss--a journey from nearly 30… read more

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4. The Night of the Gun

By: David Carr

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Do we remember only the stories we can live with?The ones that make us look good in the rearview mi… read more

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5. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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7. Tomb Sweeping

By: Alexandra Chang

3.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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9. Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir

By: Alexandra Auder

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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11. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Small Fry: A Memoir

By: Lisa Brennan-Jobs

3.80

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Br… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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13. Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

By: Gail Caldwell

3.96

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

In Let’s Take the Long Walk Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell has written a powerfu… read more

Similar categories in Gail Caldwell's Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship book and Erin Lee Carr's All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it."

-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

"What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part."

-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."

-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

"It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too."

-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

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14. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Erin Lee Carr's All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
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15. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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16. When We Were Vikings

By: Andrew David MacDonald

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains. For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking ent… read more

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  • audiobook
"Sometimes the most important things don't fit on lists."

-Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

"...Sometimes the world thinks something is not possible, but it turns out that they can be wrong."

-Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

"...Sometimes life finds us, and when it does we have to rise to the occasion and have courage. And we make lists, rules, and try to order things, trying to control them, when actually the most import…"

-Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

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17. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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18. Sick: A Memoir

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.34

Format: 272 pages, ebook

In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of c… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"And the deal with so many chronic illnesses is that most people won't want to believe you. They will tell you that you look great, that it might be in your head only, that it is likely stress, that e…"

-Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir

"It is no coincidence then that doctors and patients and the entire Lyme community report—anecdotally, of course, as there is still a frustrating scarcity of good data on anything Lyme-related—that wo…"

-Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir

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19. All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

By: Erin Lee Carr

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New Yo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Lee Carr's All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir book and Erin Lee Carr's All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • family
  • book club
  • audiobook
"No one gets to choose the traits they inherit from their parents."

-Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

"The reward for achievement is a hunger for more, a blessing that lives inside a curse."

-Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

"We love being your parents, but we also like being your fellow travelers on this part of the road."

-Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

"He told us we had to be careful about who we told our story to, but he wouldn’t let us hide from it ourselves."

-Erin Lee Carr, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

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20. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

By: Phil Elwood

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more

Similar categories in Phil Elwood's All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians book and Erin Lee Carr's All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution by Amber Tamblyn

21. Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

By: Amber Tamblyn

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A passionate manifesto with personal stories, anecdotes, and opinions from the front lines of moder… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?"

-Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

"This world demands nothing short of perfection from women who aim high, and our need to see perfection in women has, until recently, far outweighed our need for their participation."

-Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

"People marched not just because of what Donald Trump did, but because of what all the Donald Trumps have always done. Women marched not just because a woman had lost, but because we too were all done…"

-Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

"I could get rejected for jobs in acting, directing, or writing for the rest of my life, but nothing would ever take away what the experience of directing my first feature film had taught me: that I k…"

-Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

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