13 Top memoir books like Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again by Page Dickey

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Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

By: Page Dickey

3.83

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

“ Uprooted  reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.”  —The Wall Street Jour…

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1. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

By: J. Drew Lanham

4.23

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more

Similar categories in J. Drew Lanham's The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

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2. Dear Committee Members

By: Julie Schumacher

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more

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3. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

By: Bill Dedman , Paul Clark Newell Jr.

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupie… read more

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4. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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5. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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6. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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7. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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8. Rules for Visiting

By: Jessica Francis Kane

3.73

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on… read more

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  • gardening
"I'm aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not."

-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

"Consider the word visit. It’s from the Old French visiter, which meant “to inspect, examine, or afflict."

-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

"Are we a family damaged beyond repair? I don't know. I do believe in the power of words and stories to make sense of things."

-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

"She was the kind of person who had multiple copies of the books she loved most. That way, she said, she could always give one away."

-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

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9. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

By: David McCullough

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more

Similar categories in David McCullough's The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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11. How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

By: Sy Montgomery

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals-… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways."

-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

"I am still learning how to be a good creature. Though I try earnestly, I often fail. But I am having a great life trying..."

-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

"I often wish I could go back in time and tell my young, anxious self that my dreams weren't in vain and my sorrows weren't permanent. I can't do that, but I can do something better. I can tell you th…"

-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

"Even in the wake of tragedy, we could not have felt more amazed had we been visited by an angel that Christmas morning. When the angel met the shepherds in Bethlehem, the shepherds "were sore afraid.…"

-Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

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12. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.58

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more

Similar categories in Mary Oliver's Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • nonfiction
  • nature
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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13. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more

Similar categories in Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • nonfiction
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14. I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

By: Emily Farris

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD… read more

Similar categories in Emily Farris's I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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16. How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together

By: Dan Kois

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this "refreshingly relatable" (Outside) memoir, perfect for the self-isolating family, Slate edi… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

By: Yuval Taylor

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes (“The Negro Speaks of Rivers,… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Leland's The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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19. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Catte's What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • nonfiction
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20. How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

By: Lyn Slater

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characte… read more

Similar categories in Lyn Slater's How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

By: Page Dickey

3.83

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

“ Uprooted  reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.”  —The Wall Street Jour… read more

Similar categories in Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again book and Page Dickey's Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

  • biography
  • memoir
  • photography
  • biography memoir
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • plants
  • nature

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