16 best-selling nonfiction books like Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave by Meredith May

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Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

By: Meredith May

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Honey Bus comes a wild and emotional memoir of family and self-discovery, fe…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave by Meredith May , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves

By: Kevin Behan

3.20

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Behan's Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Eventide (Plainsong, #2) by Kent Haruf

2. Eventide (Plainsong, #2)

By: Kent Haruf

4.23

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Kent Haruf, award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt,… read more

Similar categories in Kent Haruf's Eventide (Plainsong, #2) book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • adult
  • audiobook
"And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real.…"

-Kent Haruf, Eventide (Plainsong, #2)

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3. The Dog Who Saved Me

By: Susan Wilson

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Rescue comes in unexpected ways for one man and his dog in this moving and redemptive novel, The Do… read more

Similar categories in Susan Wilson's The Dog Who Saved Me book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • animals
  • dogs
Cover of A Big Little Life:  A Memoir of a Joyful Dog by Dean Koontz

4. A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

By: Dean Koontz

3.81

Format: 215 pages,

In a profound, funny, and beautifully rendered portrait of a beloved companion, bestselling novelis… read more

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  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

5. Dog Medicine

By: Julie Barton

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of co… read more

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6. Here We Go Again: My Life In Television

By: Betty White

3.80

Format: 281 pages,

A MEMOIR OF BETTY WHITE'S FIRST FIVE DECADES ON TELEVISION--AS IRREVERENT AND IRRESISTIBLE AS THE B… read more

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7. Arthur: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home

By: Mikael Lindnord

3.37

Format: 395 pages,

When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing yo… read more

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8. Lucky Man

By: Michael J. Fox

4.25

Format: 512 pages,

In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkin… read more

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9. The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman

By: Margot Mifflin

2.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon fa… read more

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10. The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

By: Susan Wiggs

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rush… read more

Similar categories in Susan Wiggs's The Twelve Dogs of Christmas book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • animals
  • dogs
  • audiobook
Cover of Bark to the Future (Chet and Bernie, #13) by Spencer Quinn

11. Bark to the Future (Chet and Bernie, #13)

By: Spencer Quinn

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spencer Quinn's Bark to the Future continues the adventurous New York Times and USA Today bestselli… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Quinn's Bark to the Future (Chet and Bernie, #13) book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • adult
  • animals
  • dogs
  • audiobook
Cover of The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality by Karen Fine

12. The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

By: Karen Fine

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tribute to our furry, feathery, scaley, and wet family members, All Creatures Great and Small mee… read more

Similar categories in Karen Fine's The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Pieces by Sally Field

13. In Pieces

By: Sally Field

3.94

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

10 hours, 41 minutes One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sall… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski

14. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Zaleski's Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Cover of Any Other Family by Eleanor Brown

15. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

Cover of Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog by Dave Barry

16. Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

By: Dave Barry

4.09

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

In this “little gem” (Washington Independent Review of Books), Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and… read more

Similar categories in Dave Barry's Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • self help
  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Pay attention to the people you love. (Not later. Right now.)"

-Dave Barry, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

"Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally."

-Dave Barry, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

"In the end, all that really matters—all you really have—is the people you love. Not your job, not your career, not your awards, not your money, not your stuff. Just your people."

-Dave Barry, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

"… nobody loves you the way your dog loves you. When you’re with your dog, you may mentally be elsewhere, but your dog is not; your dog is always right there with you. When you’re gone, your dog is wa…"

-Dave Barry, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

Cover of The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer by Rodney Habib

17. The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer

By: Rodney Habib

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Forever Dog has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. read more

Similar categories in Rodney Habib's The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"An educated, informed and well-researched community of pet owners can only put more pressure on the pet food industry to be better! When pet owners know better, they will only do better!"

-Rodney Habib, The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer

Cover of Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration by Ali Wentworth

18. Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration

By: Ali Wentworth

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friends… read more

Similar categories in Ali Wentworth's Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book by Jerry Seinfeld

19. The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

By: Jerry Seinfeld

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of and behind-the-scenes look at Jerry Seinfeld’s groundbreaking streaming series Com… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Seinfeld's The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger

20. The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

By: Danielle Dreilinger

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken mu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bear by Julia  Phillips

21. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

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  • adult
  • animals
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

Cover of Deep Water by Jamie Sumner

22. Deep Water

By: Jamie Sumner

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An impactful, gripping middle grade novel in verse from acclaimed author Jamie Sumner that spans on… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Every Living Thing  (All Creatures Great and Small, #8) by James Herriot

23. Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)

By: James Herriot

4.49

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

For more than twenty years, James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers… read more

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  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire by Clare Frank

24. Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire

By: Clare Frank

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Burnt is a captivating and “evocative” (Erin Brockovich) memoir of trailblazing and firefighting fr… read more

Similar categories in Clare Frank's Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves by Alexandra Horowitz

25. The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves

By: Alexandra Horowitz

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“What Mr. Rogers was to children, Alexandra Horowitz is to a wise and patient observer who seeks t… read more

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  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog by W. Bruce Cameron

26. Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog

By: W. Bruce Cameron

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From W. Bruce Cameron, the internationally bestselling author of A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Way Ho… read more

Similar categories in W. Bruce Cameron's Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • animals
  • dogs
  • audiobook
Cover of Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter

27. Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

By: Andrew Cotter

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Olive, Mabel and Me is the new book from broadcaster Andrew Cotter and his now internet famous cani… read more

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  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

28. Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

By: Barney Scout Mann

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North , legendary tr… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Dog Day Afternoon (Andy Carpenter, #29) by David Rosenfelt

29. Dog Day Afternoon (Andy Carpenter, #29)

By: David Rosenfelt

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Paterson, New Jersey’s favorite reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter returns in Dog Day Afternoon, the n… read more

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  • animals
  • dogs
  • audiobook
Cover of Not How I Pictured It by Robin Lefler

30. Not How I Pictured It

By: Robin Lefler

3.46

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A sharply hilarious and ultimately heartfelt novel about a former teen superstar who grudgingly agr… read more

Similar categories in Robin Lefler's Not How I Pictured It book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave by Meredith May

31. Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

By: Meredith May

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Honey Bus comes a wild and emotional memoir of family and self-discovery, fe… read more

Similar categories in Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave book and Meredith May's Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave

  • self help
  • american
  • memoir
  • animals
  • dogs
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

9 Best adult books like Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave by Meredith May

Transform Your Habits

Eventide (Plainsong, #2)

Kent Haruf

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Bark to the Future (Chet and Bernie, #13)

Spencer Quinn

4.30

Transform Your Habits

In Pieces

Sally Field

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Laurie Zaleski

4.28

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Latecomer

Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

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Lucy by the Sea

Elizabeth Strout

3.91

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