14 Top autobiography books like Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself by Jill Biden

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Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

By: Jill Biden

4.31

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the love that built the Biden family and the delicate balancing act of the woma…

If you liked the autobiography plot in Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself by Jill Biden , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

By: Jeanne Theoharis

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging … read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Theoharis's The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
"to [Rosa Parks], a united front was key to black struggle. Rosa Parks' enduring commitment to racial justice and human rights formed a bridge between the civil rights struggle in Montgomery and black…"

-Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

"[Rosa Parks] also found it annoying that people reduced her resistance to segregation to tired feet when her feet were never the problem--the problem was injustice.... And she didn't like that she wa…"

-Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

"When asked what gave her the strength and commitment to refuse segregation, (Rosa) Parks credited her mother and grandfather "for giving me the spirit of freedom... that I should not feel because of …"

-Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

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2. Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home

By: Leigh Newman

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Newman's Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
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3. Prairie Tale: A Memoir

By: Melissa Gilbert

4.50

Format: 532 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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4. French Pastry Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #21)

By: Leslie Meier

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Tinker's Cove is abuzz with excitement when Norah, the queen of daytime TV, comes to town and selec… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Meier's French Pastry Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #21) book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • audiobook
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5. Spoken from the Heart

By: Laura Bush

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and priva… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

6. What Happened

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.50

Format: 191 pages,

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more

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7. Whitethorn Woods

By: Maeve Binchy

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Maeve Binchy once again brings us an enchanting book full of the wit, warmth, and wisdom that have … read more

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8. And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side

By: Dana Perino

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBestseller #1 Wall Street JournalBestseller From her years as the presidential pre… read more

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9. Killer Run (A Tourist Trap Mystery, #5)

By: Lynn Cahoon

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Jill Gardner--owner of Coffee, Books, and More--has somehow been talked into sponsoring a 5k race a… read more

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10. The Last of the President's Men

By: Bob Woodward

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of narrative nonfiction from bestselling author Bob Woodward. Bob Woodward exposes on… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"K [Kissinger] called from New York all disturbed because he felt someone had been getting to the P [President] on Vietnam... Henry's concerned that the P's looking for a way to bug out and he thinks …"

-Bob Woodward, The Last of the President's Men

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11. Tart of Darkness (Chef-to-Go Mystery, #1)

By: Denise Swanson

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Right when Dani thinks she’s hit a dead-end in her career, she unexpectedly inherits an enormous ol… read more

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  • audiobook
"If guns kill people,"

-Denise Swanson, Tart of Darkness (Chef-to-Go Mystery, #1)

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12. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

By: Charlotte Gray

4.19

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th cen… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Gray's Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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13. Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

By: Kate Andersen Brower

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

USA Today Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Wome… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

Similar categories in Whoopi Goldberg's Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

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15. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

By: Michelle Obama

4.27

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an insp… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Obama's The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The on…"

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

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16. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

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18. Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

By: Jennifer Palmieri

3.90

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling vol… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Palmieri's Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Her-story. Don't search for your role is his-tory, write your own. The future is female. The past was too it's just that no one thought it important enough to bother writing it all down."

-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

"Emotions were running so high in the country that I feared there was going to be some violence before the election. I even half-jokingly said to Hillary one day in October that it was beginning to fe…"

-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

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19. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

Similar categories in Kamala Harris's The Truths We Hold: An American Journey book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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20. Beautiful Things: A Memoir

By: Hunter Biden

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Bide… read more

Similar categories in Hunter Biden's Beautiful Things: A Memoir book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"I felt the astonishing luck of a man who'd agreed to meet a woman for coffee when it was all but impossible for him to leave a hotel room without a crack pipe in his hand, and who then fell in love a…"

-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir

"Dad swiftly learned that if he didn't put an opponent's character front and center, he often could find a way to change minds or work out a compromise. No one walks out of a meeting when you say, "I …"

-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir

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21. Growing Up Biden

By: Valerie Biden Owens

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, longtime political strategist, one of the first female campaign … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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22. Trust: America's Best Chance

By: Pete Buttigieg

4.14

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation’s current predicament… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The truth is our election system is flawed. But it will only be improved if we trust it enough to use it to elect people committed to fixing it."

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

"To love a country, as to love a person, is to love a flawed and exquisite creation, to see what is best in it, to be angry when it is not what it could be, precisely because you have seen glimmers of…"

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

"When no one’s word is authoritative, any crank is as credible as the next person. It is the irony at the heart of conspiracy thinking: You can’t trust anyone these days, so you may as well place some…"

-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance

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23. From the Corner of the Oval

By: Beck Dorey-Stein

3.82

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

By: Joe Biden

4.14

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller From President-Elect Joe Biden, Promise Me Dad is his… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future."

-Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

"I regarded these requests as the fruits of a life well lived: our grown children actually wanted to be with us."

-Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

"I believe all politics is personal, because at bottom, politics depends o trust, and unless you can establish a personal relationship, it’s awfully hard to build trust."

-Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

"Right now, you know, everyone one is going to be there for you." I explained. "Everyone will surround you with love and you'll be busy and have things to keep your mind off the worst. And then in six…"

-Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

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25. I Have Something to Tell You

By: Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential … read more

Similar categories in Chasten Glezman Buttigieg's I Have Something to Tell You book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That gay expereince in Tulsa is just as gay and valid as other, more visible experience in the media, and attempting to police anyone’s gayness sets a dangerous precedent. It equates identity with pr…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

"I was reaching my hand over the person in front of me to shake hands with Obama when a random guy barreled into me from behind. I turned to look at what had happened, and in the meantime, I felt a ha…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

Cover of American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers

26. American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

By: Katie Rogers

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, paint… read more

Similar categories in Katie Rogers's American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

27. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself by Jill Biden

28. Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

By: Jill Biden

4.31

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the love that built the Biden family and the delicate balancing act of the woma… read more

Similar categories in Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself book and Jill Biden's Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • womens
  • audiobook
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29. Christmas in Paris

By: Tilly Tennant

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

As the snow flutters down on the Eiffel Tower and fairy lights sparkle on the pavement cafés of Par… read more

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30. Jill: A Biography of the First Lady

By: Julie Pace

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Most Anticipated by Daily HiveThe personal and political life of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden Dr. J… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton

31. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook

6 Top womens books like Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself by Jill Biden

Transform Your Habits

Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Jen Psaki

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

Jennifer Palmieri

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Kamala Harris

4.01

Transform Your Habits

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

Katie Rogers

3.62

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7 must-read race books like Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid

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Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.46

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4.57

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