15 best-selling nonfiction books like Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir by Heather Lanier

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Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

By: Heather Lanier

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A  New York Times  Book Review Editors' Choice  Kate Bowler's The Everything Happens Book Club Pic…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir by Heather Lanier , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon by Thomas   French, None, Kelley Benham French

1. Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon

By: Thomas French , None , Kelley Benham French

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents… read more

Similar categories in Thomas French's Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. Heroic Measures

By: Jill Ciment

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Tattoo Artist comes a new novel--taut, moving, accomplished--set in a fraugh… read more

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3. The Wanderers

By: Meg Howrey

3.81

Format: 75 pages,

In four years Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kane, Yoshi Tanaka, and Sergei K… read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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5. Orris and Timble: The Beginning

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.37

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes the first book in a warm and funny early-reader trilo… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Orris and Timble: The Beginning book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • audiobook
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6. The Days I Loved You Most

By: Amy Neff

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Unforgettable and utterly romantic, The Days I Loved You Most is a heart-wrenching, life-affirming … read more

Similar categories in Amy Neff's The Days I Loved You Most book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more

Similar categories in Jay Wellons's All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown

By: Taylor Harris

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed—about science and… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Harris's This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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9. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more

Similar categories in Cole Arthur Riley's Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
Cover of As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve by J.S. Park

10. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

By: J.S. Park

4.63

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more

Similar categories in J.S. Park's As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

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11. Order from Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD

By: Jaclyn Paul

4.00

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

If there were an ADHD self-help book group, I’d nominate this book to be at the top of the reading … read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Paul's Order from Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma by John Melithoniotes

12. Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma

By: John Melithoniotes

4.31

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

There is no test of a couple’s bonds like the revelation that one of them has a life-threatening di… read more

Similar categories in John Melithoniotes's Why: A Memoir of Love and Lymphoma book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker

13. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

By: Angela Tucker

4.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more

Similar categories in Angela Tucker's "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life by Amanda Held Opelt

14. Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

By: Amanda Held Opelt

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover what it means to be blessed and challenge the false beliefs many in the church hold about … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Held Opelt's Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Logic doesn't always hold up against the complexity of real life. Our equations fail us. Our formulas break down and reasons escape us. We carry blessing, and we carry curse. Life is paradox. It cann…"

-Amanda Held Opelt, Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life

Cover of I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope by Valerie Gilpeer

15. I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope

By: Valerie Gilpeer

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who’d long been unable to communicate—unt… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Gilpeer's I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • disability
  • audiobook
Cover of Stage 5: A Cancer Journey by David Chill

16. Stage 5: A Cancer Journey

By: David Chill

4.44

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Stage 5: A Cancer Journey . This book tells the remarkable story of how David Chill overcame a term… read more

Similar categories in David Chill's Stage 5: A Cancer Journey book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • medical
Cover of Utopia by Heidi Sopinka

17. Utopia

By: Heidi Sopinka

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Out of the explosive 1970s L.A. art scene comes a riveting novel about creativity, death, and reinv… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Sopinka's Utopia book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West

18. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

Similar categories in Cait West's Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir by Heather Lanier

19. Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

By: Heather Lanier

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A  New York Times  Book Review Editors' Choice  Kate Bowler's The Everything Happens Book Club Pic… read more

Similar categories in Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • disability
  • audiobook
Cover of Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives by Sami Sage

20. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

By: Sami Sage

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more

Similar categories in Sami Sage's Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"

-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

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21. A Bit Much

By: Lyndsay Rush

4.42

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyfu… read more

Similar categories in Lyndsay Rush's A Bit Much book and Heather Lanier's Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

6 Best adult books like Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir by Heather Lanier

Transform Your Habits

The Days I Loved You Most

Amy Neff

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Order from Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD

Jaclyn Paul

4.00

Transform Your Habits

I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope

Valerie Gilpeer

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

Heather Lanier

4.51

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25 best-selling audiobook books like Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life by Amanda Held Opelt

Transform Your Habits

Wholehearted Faith

Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Transform Your Habits

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

Brian Zahnd

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

Jon Ward

4.08

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