12 Top memoir books like Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew by Amy Byer Shainman

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Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew

By: Amy Byer Shainman

4.42

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Resurrection Lily shares a story of inheritance and intuition, of what can surface in the body and …

If you liked the memoir plot in Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew by Amy Byer Shainman , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Beautiful Day

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A summer wedding stirs up trouble on both sides of the family in this new novel from bestselling au… read more

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2. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

By: Keri Blakinger

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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5. The Wives: A Memoir

By: Simone Gorrindo

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. Little Monsters

By: Adrienne Brodeur

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more

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"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

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7. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

By: Delia Ephron

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Mother-Daughter Murder Night

By: Nina Simon

3.58

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. A lighthearted whodunnit about a gran… read more

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9. A Margin for Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #8)

By: Lauren Elliott

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the riveting new mystery from the USA Today bestselling author, a murder and a missing first edi… read more

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10. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

By: Jesse Thistle

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. The Personal Assistant

By: Kimberly Belle

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

USA TODAY bestselling author Kimberly Belle returns with a deeply addictive thriller exploring the … read more

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12. The Eden Test

By: Adam Sternbergh

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Edgar Award-finalist Adam Sternbergh, an electrifying domestic suspense novel for fans of The … read more

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13. The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage

By: Drew Magary

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fata… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
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14. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"

-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir

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15. Groundskeeping

By: Lee Cole

3.57

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to li… read more

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"Complication makes life interesting."

-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

"You know how doctors are, he said. Could be weeks, could be months. They say it’s not an exact science. I’m like, “What are we paying you for then? Isn’t medicine an exact science?"

-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

"Love is simple, she said. That’s my advice to both of you, not that you’re asking for it….People try to make it complicated , but it’s very simple, she said. You’ll realize that when you’re dying."

-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

"We both laughed. I felt the competing desires, as I often did when meeting someone new, to know everything at once and to save it all for later. It was like the feeling one has reading a good book, t…"

-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

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16. A Likely Story

By: Leigh McMullan Abramson

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything s… read more

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"People who publish are writers. No one says, 'I'm a lawyer' because they act out imaginary court scenes in their bedrooms."

-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story

"The flip side of her steady dependability was that she had no margin for error. If Claire forgot a birthday or was five minutes late, it was intolerable precisely because it happened so infrequently.…"

-Leigh McMullan Abramson, A Likely Story

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17. Half In: A Coming-of-Age Memoir of Forbidden Love

By: Felice Cohen

4.52

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

What if your first love was a forbidden one? At twenty-three, Felice Cohen was, like other recen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman

By: Lindy Elkins-Tanton

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s leading planetary scientists, a luminous memoir of exploration on Earth, in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew by Amy Byer Shainman

19. Resurrection Lily: The BRCA Gene, Hereditary Cancer & Lifesaving Whispers from the Grandmother I Never Knew

By: Amy Byer Shainman

4.42

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Resurrection Lily shares a story of inheritance and intuition, of what can surface in the body and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • genetics
  • health
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20. Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal

By: Laura Trujillo

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this “seismically moving memoir” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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4.26

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3.99

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