18 must-read memoir books like The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness by Michelle D. Hord

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The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness

By: Michelle D. Hord

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A raw and powerful memoir about how resilience, hope, and defiant faith can lead to powerful transf…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness by Michelle D. Hord , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up by James Hollis

1. Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

By: James Hollis

4.12

Format: 323 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed by Glennon Doyle Melton

2. Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

By: Glennon Doyle Melton

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

An inspirational, sidesplittingly funny exploration of the power of living with love, forgiveness, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help

3. Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later

By: Francine Pascal

4.00

Format: 186 pages,

Ten years after graduating from Sweet Valley High, the Wakefield twins have had a falling out of ep… read more

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4. One True Thing

By: Anna Quindlen

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Ellen Gulden leaves her life as a successful New York journalist, to return home and care for her m… read more

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5. Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder

By: Kathryn Casey

3.84

Format: None pages,

A WALKING NIGHTMARE--IN SIZE-NINE STILETTOS . . . The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Ho… read more

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6. Through the Eyes of a Lion: Facing Impossible Pain, Finding Incredible Power

By: Steven Furtick , Levi Lusko

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What will you do when the unthinkable happens? Her parents called her Lenya Lion because of her fer… read more

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7. In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

By: John Donvan , Caren Zucker

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Hardcover

Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagno… read more

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8. The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

By: Rainn Wilson

5.00

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

Rainn Wilson's memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and li… read more

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9. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"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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10. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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11. I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief

By: Clare Mackintosh

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

New York Times and international bestselling mystery author Clare Mackintosh makes her nonfiction d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

14. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe by Jesse Watters

15. Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe

By: Jesse Watters

3.90

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Can the political be way too personal? What if most radica… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg  Marshall

16. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Michelle D. Hord's The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Bozoma Saint John

17. The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

By: Bozoma Saint John

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes a memoir of grief, and one woman's drive to thrive in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

18. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

19. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
Cover of If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation by Jean Muenchrath

20. If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation

By: Jean Muenchrath

3.94

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Her grand adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing 200 miles along California's John Muir Tr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Life is short. Live you dreams now!"

-Jean Muenchrath, If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation

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21. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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22. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

By: Florence Williams

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take s…"

-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

"These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain associated with processing sensory and motor information. …"

-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

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23. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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24. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

By: Karen Tang

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Out of the Dark: My Journey Through the Shadows to Find God's Joy by Mandisa

25. Out of the Dark: My Journey Through the Shadows to Find God's Joy

By: Mandisa

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Grammy award-winning music artist Mandisa tells an inspiring story of peaks and valleys, trials and… read more

Similar categories in Mandisa's Out of the Dark: My Journey Through the Shadows to Find God's Joy book and Michelle D. Hord's The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness

  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • inspirational
Cover of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

26. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

By: Kyo Maclear

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

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27. The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir

By: Priscilla Gilman

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of fa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness by Michelle D. Hord

28. The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness

By: Michelle D. Hord

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A raw and powerful memoir about how resilience, hope, and defiant faith can lead to powerful transf… read more

Similar categories in Michelle D. Hord's The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness book and Michelle D. Hord's The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness

  • christian
  • true crime
  • memoir
  • inspirational
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us by Rachelle Bergstein

29. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

By: Rachelle Bergstein

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments by D. Watkins

30. Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments

By: D. Watkins

4.34

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A  New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents a complex story about his coming-of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of You Can't Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off by Stassi Schroeder

31. You Can't Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off

By: Stassi Schroeder

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Gallery Book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help

25 Best nonfiction books like The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness by Michelle D. Hord

Transform Your Habits

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

James Hollis

4.12

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Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

Glennon Doyle Melton

3.68

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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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

Lyz Lenz

3.99

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Transform Your Habits

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

Transform Your Habits

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Kirsten Miller

4.19

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