14 must-read biography memoir books like Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart by Rose Styron

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Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart

By: Rose Styron

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amn…

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1. Reading My Father

By: Alexandra Styron

3.86

Format: 240 pages,

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

By: Ed Zwick

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more

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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

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3. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

By: Carl Sferrazza Anthony

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” — The Washington Post An illumi… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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6. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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7. 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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"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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8. Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

4.31

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more

Similar categories in Cassidy Hutchinson's Enough book and Rose Styron's Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart

  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir book and Rose Styron's Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart

  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard

By: Michael Callahan

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tantalizing novel of two women bound by blood but divided by a long-buried secret, and the island… read more

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11. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir

By: Beth Nguyen

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more

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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

By: Kate Storey

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Impeccably researched…captivating!” —Elin Hilderbrand * “A well-paced history.” — The New York Tim… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Rose Styron's Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart

  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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14. Such Kindness

By: Andre Dubus III

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He … read more

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15. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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17. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"

-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

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18. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Park Avenue Summer

By: Renée Rosen

3.95

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York … read more

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20. 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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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart

By: Rose Styron

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amn… read more

Similar categories in Rose Styron's Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart book and Rose Styron's Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart

  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Alexandra Styron

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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Kristin Hannah

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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