15 best-selling nonfiction books like The Year My Family Unravelled by Cynthia Dearborn

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The Year My Family Unravelled

By: Cynthia Dearborn

4.23

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Cynthia Dearborn is struggling to convince her father, who has vascular dementia, to move into an a…

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1. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. After

By: Nikki Gemmell

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Australia's bravest and most honest writer explores the devastating aftermath of her elderly mother… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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4. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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5. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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7. Southern Aurora

By: Mark Brandi

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable new novel from the Dagger award-winning author of Wimmera. A novel that shows sma… read more

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8. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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9. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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10. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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11. Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award

By: David Marr

4.39

Format: 596 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

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13. The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.65

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a Mennonite choir performing on a subway platform, a fleeting … read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Emotional Female

By: Yumiko Kadota

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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16. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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17. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Jane Austen Remedy

By: Ruth Wilson

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"These conversations were exhilarating. They alerted me to the way shared reading could be a source of light in a dark world, forging friendships and creating like-minded communities."

-Ruth Wilson, The Jane Austen Remedy

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19. Infidelity and Other Affairs

By: Kate Legge

3.38

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you have to face up to your ow… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Shmutz

By: Felicia Berliner

3.52

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get m… read more

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21. One Day We're All Going to Die

By: Elise Esther Hearst

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming… read more

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22. A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust

By: Rachelle Unreich

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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24. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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25. Death of a Foreign Gentleman (Stephen Minter #1)

By: Steven Carroll

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a ser… read more

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26. Aphrodite's Breath

By: Susan Johnson

4.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Year My Family Unravelled by Cynthia Dearborn

27. The Year My Family Unravelled

By: Cynthia Dearborn

4.23

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Cynthia Dearborn is struggling to convince her father, who has vascular dementia, to move into an a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. Loving my lying, dying, cheating husband: A memoir of a whirlwind romance gone wrong

By: Kerstin Pilz

3.93

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Kerstin is childless by choice and married to her job when Gianni, a charming Italian, turns her li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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29. Love, Death & Other Scenes

By: Nova Weetman

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Nova Weetman' s unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. Cherrywood

By: Jock Serong

3.89

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From multiple award-winning author, Jock Serong, comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful a… read more

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Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

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After

Nikki Gemmell

3.29

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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

Anna Funder

4.13

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Emotional Female

Yumiko Kadota

4.27

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The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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Chris Brookmyre

4.07

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