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…
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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
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- 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
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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
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- nonfiction
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
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- 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
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
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- biography
- memoir
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- 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
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
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
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
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
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
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- 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
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
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- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
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
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
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
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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
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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
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
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
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- biography memoir
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
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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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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
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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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
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
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- memoir
- medicine
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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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
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- 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
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
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- mental health
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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
