6 Top memoir books like Move the Needle: Yarns from an Unlikely Entrepreneur by Shelley Brander

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Move the Needle: Yarns from an Unlikely Entrepreneur

By: Shelley Brander

4.13

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Learn how to make your big, impossible dreams a reality with help from a creative entrepreneur who'…

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1. Dyeing Wishes (A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery #2)

By: Molly MacRae

3.74

Format: 292 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Kath Rutledge’s grandmother left her a charming fiber and fabric shop, a close-knit group of needle… read more

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  • crafts
  • knitting
Cover of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Jack Kornfield, Daniel J. Siegel, Rick     Hanson, Richard Mendius

2. Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

By: Jack Kornfield , Daniel J. Siegel , Rick Hanson , Richard Mendius

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like any… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford Years, #12) by Jan Karon

3. Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford Years, #12)

By: Jan Karon

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

After five hectic years of retirement from Lord's Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife… read more

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4. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

By: Ben Montgomery

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club, #1) by Kate Jacobs

5. The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club, #1)

By: Kate Jacobs

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Hardcover

Once a week, an eclectic group of women comes together at a New York City yarn shop to work on thei… read more

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  • knitting
Cover of O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

6. O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

3.90

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more

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"Things away from home often look better than they are."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

7. A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way through Love, Loss, and Laughter

By: Rachael Herron (RH Herron)

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In these 20 heartfelt essays, Rachael Herron celebrated romance novelist by day, 911 dispatcher by … read more

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8. Jane Austen: The Complete Collection

By: Jane Austen

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Collected here are 14 major and minor works dating from Austen's youth to her final years, wherein … read more

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9. Moon Over Manifest

By: Clare Vanderpool

3.67

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award. The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my e… read more

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10. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert… read more

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11. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy

By: Sheryl Sandberg , Adam M. Grant , Adam Grant

3.93

Format: 512 pages,

From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of… read more

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12. Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #1)

By: Quentin Bates , Ragnar Jónasson

3.55

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their do… read more

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13. Uncommon Type

By: Tom Hanks

3.79

Format: 223 pages,

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is a… read more

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14. The Golden Doves

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Naz… read more

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15. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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16. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.05

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lif… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Cover of Local Gone Missing (Elise King, #1) by Fiona Barton

17. Local Gone Missing (Elise King, #1)

By: Fiona Barton

3.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and week… read more

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Cover of Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

18. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Orenstein's Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater book and Shelley Brander's Move the Needle: Yarns from an Unlikely Entrepreneur

  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • knitting
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Cover of We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power by Rachel Rodgers

19. We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power

By: Rachel Rodgers

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Are you ready to fill your life with more peace, power, and joy? We Should All Be Millionaires d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • business
Cover of The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais

20. The Witches of Moonshyne Manor

By: Bianca Marais

3.62

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

A coven of modern-day witches. A magical heist-gone-wrong. A looming threat. Five octogenarian w… read more

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"Age's sole purpose is to gift us more years in which to experience the minefield that is living. Along with that, it grants us the perspective to know that by the end of it all, it doesn't matter a d…"

-Bianca Marais, The Witches of Moonshyne Manor

Cover of Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life by Matt Paxton

21. Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life

By: Matt Paxton

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

America's top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • business
Cover of Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster

22. Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life

By: Sutton Foster

4.10

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger , funny and intimate stories and ref… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line (Feminist History Book for Adults) by Mari K.  Eder

23. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line (Feminist History Book for Adults)

By: Mari K. Eder

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you in… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Down a Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1) by Karen Odden

24. Down a Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1)

By: Karen Odden

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, Karen Odden’s mystery introduces Inspector Michael Corr… read more

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25. Sunshine Nails

By: Mai Nguyen

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more

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26. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

By: Dawnie Walton

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their… read more

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"Disclosure: My father, a drummer named Jimmy Curtis, fell in love with Opal Jewel in the summer of 1970."

-Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

Cover of I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver

27. I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life

By: Maria Shriver

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[I've Been Thinking…] is beautiful...I felt your soul on t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • memoir
"Si hay luz en el alma, habrá belleza en la persona. Si hay belleza en la persona, habrá armonía en la casa. si hay armonía en la casa, habrá orden en la nación. Si hay orden en la nación, habrá paz e…"

-Maria Shriver, I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life

Cover of Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting by Patty Lyons

28. Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting

By: Patty Lyons

4.61

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Do you wish your knitting was better and that you had an expert knitter by your side to help you wh… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • knitting
Cover of The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams

29. The Twilight Garden

By: Sara Nisha Adams

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it... In a small pocket of th… read more

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Cover of Move the Needle: Yarns from an Unlikely Entrepreneur by Shelley Brander

30. Move the Needle: Yarns from an Unlikely Entrepreneur

By: Shelley Brander

4.13

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Learn how to make your big, impossible dreams a reality with help from a creative entrepreneur who'… read more

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  • personal development
  • memoir
  • knitting
  • nonfiction
  • crafts
  • business
Cover of Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art by Claire Wellesley-Smith

31. Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art

By: Claire Wellesley-Smith

4.07

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Following on from her textile hit Slow Stitch , author Claire Wellesley-Smith considers the importa… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction

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4.25

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4.42

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Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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4.05

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Jill Duggar

4.06

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4.23

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Henry Winkler

4.14

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4.13

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