24 must-read nonfiction books like Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope by Patrick Dylan

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Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

By: Patrick Dylan

4.45

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of seven awards, including a National Indie Excellence Award and Best Indie Book Award."Anyo…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope by Patrick Dylan , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Dreamseller

By: Brandon Novak , Joseph Frantz

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Skateboarding used to be my life. When I was fourteen years old, I was discovered by Bucky Lasek an… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Novak's Dreamseller book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

2. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.

By: Julie Holland

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych … read more

Similar categories in Julie Holland's Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

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3. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness

By: Melissa Bond

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Bond's Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

4. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

Similar categories in Aphrodite Jones's LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
Cover of Everything Is Fine by Vince Granata

6. Everything Is Fine

By: Vince Granata

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more

Similar categories in Vince Granata's Everything Is Fine book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

Cover of Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman

7. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

By: Hadley Freeman

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Hadley Freeman's Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"

-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

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8. Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

By: Ed Patrick

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching a… read more

Similar categories in Ed Patrick's Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine by J. Thomas Grant

9. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

Similar categories in J. Thomas Grant's The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Empty

By: Susan Burton

3.78

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more

Similar categories in Susan Burton's Empty book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"

-Susan Burton, Empty

"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"

-Susan Burton, Empty

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11. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leary's I've Tried Being Nice: Essays book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everywhere I Look: A Memoir by Ona Gritz

12. Everywhere I Look: A Memoir

By: Ona Gritz

4.47

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, a… read more

Similar categories in Ona Gritz's Everywhere I Look: A Memoir book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

Similar categories in Alice Carrière's Everything/Nothing/Someone book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Everything is Perfect: A Memoir

By: Kate Nason

4.17

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven years into her second marriage, Kate Nason discovered her husband was cheating on her. Then, … read more

Similar categories in Kate Nason's Everything is Perfect: A Memoir book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank

15. Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

By: Tanya Frank

3.55

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother’s quest to accept her son’s journey through psycho… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Frank's Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. I Almost Lost Her : A memoir of unthinkable tragedy

By: Andre Xavier

4.32

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

André Xavier’s life was forever changed by a single phone call on a sunny September morning. On … read more

Similar categories in Andre Xavier's I Almost Lost Her : A memoir of unthinkable tragedy book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

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17. Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation

By: Stefanie Schaffer

4.61

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Without Any Warning is a first-hand account of the accident that changed Stefanie Schaffer’s life—b… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Schaffer's Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family by Janet Smuga

18. Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family

By: Janet Smuga

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Damaged is a story of survivor's guilt coupled with resentment tempered by love. It reveals the cha… read more

Similar categories in Janet Smuga's Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

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19. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Thornton Plymale's American Daughter book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by Meredith O'Brien

20. Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

By: Meredith O'Brien

4.32

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her … read more

Similar categories in Meredith O'Brien's Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of On Borrowed Breath: A memoir of faith, love and advocating through a health crisis by Karen Campbell Wilkinson

21. On Borrowed Breath: A memoir of faith, love and advocating through a health crisis

By: Karen Campbell Wilkinson

4.39

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do when the love of your life is hanging by a thread? This is the reality that I found… read more

Similar categories in Karen Campbell Wilkinson's On Borrowed Breath: A memoir of faith, love and advocating through a health crisis book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography memoir
Cover of Stage 5: A Cancer Journey by David Chill

22. 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 Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

Cover of Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver by Rachel Michelberg

23. Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver

By: Rachel Michelberg

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Rachel likes to think of herself as a nice Jewish girl, dedicated to doing what’s honorable, just a… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Michelberg's Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Other Side of Us: A Memoir of Trauma, Truth, and Transformation by Molly Weisgram

24. The Other Side of Us: A Memoir of Trauma, Truth, and Transformation

By: Molly Weisgram

4.44

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

“A real life example of the power of positivity and perseverance.” – Kabir Sehgal, NY Times Best-Se… read more

Similar categories in Molly Weisgram's The Other Side of Us: A Memoir of Trauma, Truth, and Transformation book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

Cover of Behind the Facade: A Mental Health Memoir by Lauren Bartleson

25. Behind the Facade: A Mental Health Memoir

By: Lauren Bartleson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Raw, real, and heartbreakingly honest, Behind the Facade is one woman’s journey of overcoming every… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bartleson's Behind the Facade: A Mental Health Memoir book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope by Patrick Dylan

26. Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

By: Patrick Dylan

4.45

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of seven awards, including a National Indie Excellence Award and Best Indie Book Award."Anyo… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medicine
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Thin Ledge: A Husband’s Memoir of Love, Trauma, and Unexpected Circumstances by Daniel P. Shapiro

27. The Thin Ledge: A Husband’s Memoir of Love, Trauma, and Unexpected Circumstances

By: Daniel P. Shapiro

3.78

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Amazon Best Seller in Fatherhood, Family Health, and Parenting Emotions & FeelingsWhat would you do… read more

Similar categories in Daniel P. Shapiro's The Thin Ledge: A Husband’s Memoir of Love, Trauma, and Unexpected Circumstances book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

Cover of The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth by Minu Cash

28. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

Similar categories in Minu Cash's The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

29. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
Cover of Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide by Rachel Zimmerman

30. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

By: Rachel Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide book and Patrick Dylan's Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

14 must-read audiobook books like Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope by Patrick Dylan

Transform Your Habits

Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness

Melissa Bond

3.99

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Everything Is Fine

Vince Granata

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

Hadley Freeman

3.92

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13 must-read adult books like Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond

Transform Your Habits

Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness

Melissa Bond

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Stash: My Life in Hiding

Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Stephanie Land

3.62

Transform Your Habits

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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