11 best-selling biography memoir books like Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss by David Magee

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Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

By: David Magee

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERFEATURED ON CBS MORNINGS WITH GAYLE KINGA BEST BOOK OF THE SOUTH (recko…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss by David Magee , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Miss Julia Hits the Road (Miss Julia, #4) by Ann B. Ross

1. Miss Julia Hits the Road (Miss Julia, #4)

By: Ann B. Ross

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Miss Julia--that Southern spitfire of a certain age who is never less than charming, even when she'… read more

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2. The World's Largest Man: A Memoir

By: Harrison Scott Key

3.64

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious Bible-reading wo… read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's The World's Largest Man: A Memoir book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

3. Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

By: Richard Grant

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Mississippi's #1 Bestseller of 2015 and 2016 (The Clar… read more

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Cover of How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key

4. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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5. Suffer Strong: How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything

By: Katherine Wolf

4.41

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Is it possible to embrace suffering as a privilege, rather than a punishment? Beloved authors Kathe… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Wolf's Suffer Strong: How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward by Elizabeth Passarella

6. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Passarella's It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

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7. Glorious Rock Bottom

By: Bryony Gordon

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and dru… read more

Similar categories in Bryony Gordon's Glorious Rock Bottom book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Glad You're Here: Two Unlikely Friends Breaking Bread and Fences by Walker Hayes

9. Glad You're Here: Two Unlikely Friends Breaking Bread and Fences

By: Walker Hayes

4.63

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

When Craig Cooper and Walker Hayes met, Walker was an alcoholic atheist reeling from the backlash o… read more

Similar categories in Walker Hayes's Glad You're Here: Two Unlikely Friends Breaking Bread and Fences book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Theo of Golden

By: Allen Levi

4.73

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant but mysterious stranger, after his arrival in the southern … read more

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Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

11. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

Similar categories in Mike Hixenbaugh's They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York by Elizabeth Passarella

12. Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from compa… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Passarella's Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant

13. The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi

By: Richard Grant

4.03

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant “sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the… read more

Similar categories in Richard Grant's The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence by Steve Gleason

14. A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence

By: Steve Gleason

4.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family… read more

Similar categories in Steve Gleason's A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. Apple in the Middle

By: Dawn Quigley

3.66

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racia… read more

Similar categories in Dawn Quigley's Apple in the Middle book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • family
Cover of There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir by Ruthie Lindsey

16. There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir

By: Ruthie Lindsey

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Ruthie is a gifted storyteller with the unique ability to make you feel her emotions as if they're… read more

Similar categories in Ruthie Lindsey's There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington

17. The Fortunate Ones

By: Ed Tarkington

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The perfect read for fans of The White Lotus or Succession “As a novelist, Tarkington is the real … read more

Similar categories in Ed Tarkington's The Fortunate Ones book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • adult
  • audiobook
"We were perched on the precipice of manhood, drunk on our own importance, our futures promising, the present full of opportunity for seemingly endless firsts and lasts--first drink, first kiss, first…"

-Ed Tarkington, The Fortunate Ones

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18. Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

By: David Magee

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERFEATURED ON CBS MORNINGS WITH GAYLE KINGA BEST BOOK OF THE SOUTH (recko… read more

Similar categories in David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Humor Me

By: Cat Shook

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A love letter to the New York City stand-up scene, as told by a charmingly jaded assistant at a lat… read more

Similar categories in Cat Shook's Humor Me book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy by Daryl Chow

20. The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy

By: Daryl Chow

4.19

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Many clients take the first step to see a psychotherapist and do not return after the first session… read more

Similar categories in Daryl Chow's The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne   Morgan

21. What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings

By: Leanne Morgan

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From dealing with your mean teenage daughter to rebelling against the latest diet trend, America’s … read more

Similar categories in Leanne Morgan's What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings book and David Magee's Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

5 must-read adult books like Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss by David Magee

Transform Your Habits

It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Did I Ever Tell You?

Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Fortunate Ones

Ed Tarkington

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

David Magee

4.49

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16 must-read audiobook books like The World's Largest Man: A Memoir by Harrison Scott Key

Transform Your Habits

The World's Largest Man: A Memoir

Harrison Scott Key

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

Collin Hansen

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

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