17 Top memoir books like When She Comes Back : A Memoir by Ronit Plank

Cover of When She Comes Back : A Memoir by Ronit Plank

When She Comes Back : A Memoir

By: Ronit Plank

4.40

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Ronit was six years old when her mother left her and her four-year-old sister for India to follow a…

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Cover of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite

1. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal

By: Jen Waite

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When … read more

Similar categories in Jen Waite's A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

2. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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3. 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 Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • 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 Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy by Aundi Kolber

4. Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy

By: Aundi Kolber

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

"In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aund… read more

Similar categories in Aundi Kolber's Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

By: Cole Arthur Riley

4.63

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more

Similar categories in Cole Arthur Riley's This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."

-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

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6. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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7. Look Alive Out There

By: Sloane Crosley

3.77

Format: 256 pages, None

From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There―a brand-new co… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Look Alive Out There book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Everyone knows WebMD is a Choose Your Own Adventure book in which all roads lead to death."

-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

"There are few things sadder than an off-duty earlobe that’s been trained to accommodate a human fist"

-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

"I think by now we can all agree that the foundation of world travel goes something like "Bring a cardigan."

-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

"My roommate came running out of the closet and did not stop until he reached Los Angeles. I knew this day would come. Sometimes it's easier to be your actual self where nothing of your alleged self e…"

-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

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8. 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

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • 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 Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

9. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
Cover of First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger

10. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature

By: Jennifer Lang

4.64

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ “For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love.” R… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lang's Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • memoir
Cover of Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World by Rona Maynard

13. Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World

By: Rona Maynard

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An irresistible tale of reluctant dog ownership full of heart, humor, and wisdom Rona Maynard wa… read more

Similar categories in Rona Maynard's Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Some things about being human can't be learned from your own kind.."

-Rona Maynard, Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World

Cover of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book by Allison K. Williams

14. Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book

By: Allison K. Williams

4.76

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book divides writing and revision into distin… read more

Similar categories in Allison K. Williams's Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • nonfiction
Cover of Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins

15. Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss

By: Eileen Vorbach Collins

4.96

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bere… read more

Similar categories in Eileen Vorbach Collins's Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • memoir
Cover of Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived by Karen DeBonis

16. Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived

By: Karen DeBonis

4.74

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a woman who never learned to stand up for herself find the courage to speak up for her son? … read more

Similar categories in Karen DeBonis's Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • memoir
Cover of When She Comes Back : A Memoir by Ronit Plank

17. When She Comes Back : A Memoir

By: Ronit Plank

4.40

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Ronit was six years old when her mother left her and her four-year-old sister for India to follow a… read more

Similar categories in Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by Casey Mulligan Walsh

18. The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared

By: Casey Mulligan Walsh

4.98

Format: 323 pages, ebook

Casey needs a family: the joys and sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs—what Zorba… read more

Similar categories in Casey Mulligan Walsh's The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • memoir
Cover of Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump

19. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

By: Mary L. Trump

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Tap Dancing on Everest by Mimi  Zieman

20. Tap Dancing on Everest

By: Mimi Zieman

4.61

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face o… read more

Similar categories in Mimi Zieman's Tap Dancing on Everest book and Ronit Plank's When She Comes Back : A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses by Jennifer     Lang

21. Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses

By: Jennifer Lang

4.77

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ “Lyrical. Poignant. Funny. Captures the essence of living as a perpetual outsider in Israel.”… read more

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Transform Your Habits

A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal

Jen Waite

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

4.21

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Everything Is Fine

Vince Granata

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy

Aundi Kolber

4.40

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Amanda Filipacchi

4.39

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Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Quietly Hostile: Essays

Samantha Irby

3.70

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