25 must-read memoir books like Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing by Kimberly Shannon Murphy

Cover of Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing by Kimberly Shannon Murphy

Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

By: Kimberly Shannon Murphy

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A USA Today Book Club Pick Foreword by Cameron Diaz “Reading Kimberly Shannon Murphy’s searing and …

If you liked the memoir plot in Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing by Kimberly Shannon Murphy , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins

1. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle    Tometich

2. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

Similar categories in Annabelle Tometich's The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Geraldine DeRuiter

3. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

4. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

Cover of Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder

5. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Cover of The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife by Shannon Harris

6. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

By: Shannon Harris

3.77

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Harris's The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Cover of Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt

7. Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

By: John Glatt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Golden Boy, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert … read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • mental health
Cover of Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly

8. Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more

Similar categories in Minka Kelly's Tell Me Everything book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula

9. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

Similar categories in Ramani Durvasula's It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

10. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton

11. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha by Rodrigo  García

12. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

By: Rodrigo García

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will … read more

Similar categories in Rodrigo García's A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] by Chelsea Devantez

13. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World by Anita Moorjani

14. Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World

By: Anita Moorjani

3.96

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Dying to Be Me returns with “a gorgeous and powerful field… read more

Similar categories in Anita Moorjani's Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Good teachers help you believe in yourself, rather than cultivate a belief in them. They teach you to connect to the divinity within you."

-Anita Moorjani, Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World

"Your sensitivity opens up six sensory world. It's connected to the other side. If you block your sensitivity, you block what's coming in from the other realm. The thing is to be aware that you're giv…"

-Anita Moorjani, Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World

"The outside world is loud and demanding so the first step in honing our powers is learning to deal effectively with sensory overload. We have to identify and manage the things that jam our inner guid…"

-Anita Moorjani, Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World

"Now when our ego is turned up high, working in tandem with our conscious awareness knob, the ego becomes a beneficial tool because it helps us identify with, and connect to, our own individuality. It…"

-Anita Moorjani, Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World

Cover of Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir by Brittany Means

15. Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir

By: Brittany Means

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Brittany Means’s childhood was filled with abuse, neglect, violence, and instability, in part cause… read more

Similar categories in Brittany Means's Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life's Too Short: A Memoir by Darius Rucker

16. Life's Too Short: A Memoir

By: Darius Rucker

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award–winning, Diamond-selling le… read more

Similar categories in Darius Rucker's Life's Too Short: A Memoir book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

17. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière

18. 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 Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve by Sherrie Campbell

19. Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve

By: Sherrie Campbell

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the l… read more

Similar categories in Sherrie Campbell's Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler

20. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

Similar categories in Anna Marie Tendler's Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of From Here by Luma Mufleh

21. From Here

By: Luma Mufleh

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to recon… read more

Similar categories in Luma Mufleh's From Here book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters

22. The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

By: Oksana Masters

4.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Par… read more

Similar categories in Oksana Masters's The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma by Ingrid Clayton

23. Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma

By: Ingrid Clayton

4.70

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

I didn't have bruises. She never left him. He didn't actually rape me. Maybe I wasn't worth b… read more

Similar categories in Ingrid Clayton's Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

24. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

By: Kyo Maclear

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more

Similar categories in Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

Cover of Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go by Kelly S. Thompson

25. Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

By: Kelly S. Thompson

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship … read more

Similar categories in Kelly S. Thompson's Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Sisters come back to one another, I think. When they're ready."

-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

"I have always thought that sisters have a way of communicating, no matter what keeps them apart."

-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

"We were all just trying to save someone. It was a state of loving, despite instead of loving because."

-Kelly S. Thompson, Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go

Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

26. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing by Kimberly Shannon Murphy

27. Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

By: Kimberly Shannon Murphy

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A USA Today Book Club Pick Foreword by Cameron Diaz “Reading Kimberly Shannon Murphy’s searing and … read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Earth to Moon: A Memoir by Moon Unit Zappa

28. Earth to Moon: A Memoir

By: Moon Unit Zappa

4.42

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more

Similar categories in Moon Unit Zappa's Earth to Moon: A Memoir book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism by John Mackey

29. The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism

By: John Mackey

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Whole Foods Market’s Cofounder and CEO for 44 years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative… read more

Similar categories in John Mackey's The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley

30. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Marie Presley's From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir book and Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

30 Best audiobook books like Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing by Kimberly Shannon Murphy

Transform Your Habits

Stash: My Life in Hiding

Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Transform Your Habits

If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

View all the books

17 Top audiobook books like Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go by Kelly S. Thompson

Transform Your Habits

The Bittlemores

Jann Arden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Keeper

Genevieve Graham

4.36

Transform Your Habits

On the Ravine

Vincent Lam

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Almost Brown

Charlotte Gill

3.67

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.