12 Top biography books like The Other Mothers by Jennifer Berney

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The Other Mothers

By: Jennifer Berney

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When Jenn Berney and her wife decided they wanted to have children, they took the next logical step…

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1. Wifey

By: Judy Blume

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

With more than four million copies sold, Wifey is Judy Blume's hilarious, moving tale of a woman wh… read more

Similar categories in Judy Blume's Wifey book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Objects of My Affection

By: Jill Smolinski

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

In the humorous, heartfelt new novel by the author of The Next Thing on My List, a personal organiz… read more

Similar categories in Jill Smolinski's Objects of My Affection book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • adult
  • audiobook

3. The Midwife's Confession

By: Diane Chamberlain

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Dear Anna, What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult … read more

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4. On Second Thought

By: Kristan Higgins

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

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5. 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

Similar categories in Keri Blakinger's Corrections in Ink: A Memoir book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. The Shape of Thunder

By: Jasmine Warga

4.17

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other,… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's The Shape of Thunder book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • audiobook
"I just want to be okay. I don't want to feel okay. I want to be okay."

-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder

"The more things you know, the less likely you are to be taken by surprise."

-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder

"Whenever I get a bad grade, I always try to explain to Mom that I did read the book. And just because I can't remember what color shirt the character was wearing in page six doesn't mean that I didn'…"

-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder

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7. Beautiful Country

By: Qian Julie Wang

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more

Similar categories in Qian Julie Wang's Beautiful Country book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"

-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

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8. A Little Ray of Sunshine

By: Kristan Higgins

4.14

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A kid walks into your bookstore and... guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption e… read more

Similar categories in Kristan Higgins's A Little Ray of Sunshine book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • audiobook
"I had thought, once, that I couldn't ever be a mother because I'd passed at the chance to raise my own son. But this summer had shown me--Matthew and Monica had shown me--that being a mother wasn't o…"

-Kristan Higgins, A Little Ray of Sunshine

"I had a new sense of awareness now--of my own mother, of Addison and Nicole, Monica, Grammy . . . even of Grady's ex-wife. You can't have a child and not experience terror and heartache in some way. …"

-Kristan Higgins, A Little Ray of Sunshine

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9. Holding Pattern

By: Jenny Xie

3.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Xie's Holding Pattern book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • feminism
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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12. 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 Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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

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13. Good Luck with That

By: Kristan Higgins

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as te… read more

Similar categories in Kristan Higgins's Good Luck with That book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • adult
  • audiobook
"...they were just normal, and they were enjoying that elusive state of simply BEING..."

-Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

"Yes, I was clad in yoga pants that had never seen a yoga studio and a T-shirt covered in rabbit and dog hair. But I’d been reading. There was no reason to dress up for reading. Books didn’t care. Boo…"

-Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

"True peace was rare when you were fat. When you were fat, you wore armor to protect and deflect. You were either sharp and bitter, inspiring fear in potential bullies, or you were extra cheerful to s…"

-Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

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14. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

Similar categories in Uché Blackstock's Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

By: Sara Petersen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more

Similar categories in Sara Petersen's Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • parenting
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

By: Meera Shah

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling”  —Cecile Richards, au… read more

Similar categories in Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • memoir
  • medical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

By: Anthony Ray Hinton

4.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Ray Hinton's The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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18. Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

By: María Hinojosa

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Maria’s perspective is powerful and vital. Years ago, when In the Heights was just starting off-Br… read more

Similar categories in María Hinojosa's Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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20. Dirty Liar

By: Marissa Finch

4.07

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A WALK IN THE WOODS TURNS INTO A DEADLY NIGHTMARE… The forest is my happy place. A chance to get aw… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Finch's Dirty Liar book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Neighbors and Other Stories

By: Diane Oliver

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more

Similar categories in Diane Oliver's Neighbors and Other Stories book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • audiobook
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

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22. 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 Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again by Jancee Dunn

23. Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again

By: Jancee Dunn

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Hot and Bothered removes the shame, disdain, and mystery that’s surrounded menopause….An informati… read more

Similar categories in Jancee Dunn's Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • medical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. A Million Reasons Why

By: Jessica Strawser

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test, it’s an answered prayer―that is, for one half-… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Strawser's A Million Reasons Why book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic by Peter Canning

25. Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Peter Canning

4.22

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, twenty-five… read more

Similar categories in Peter Canning's Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir by Daniel Barban Levin

26. Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir

By: Daniel Barban Levin

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Barban Levin's Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler

27. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

By: Robert W. Fieseler

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Eme… read more

Similar categories in Robert W. Fieseler's Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins

28. Always the Last to Know

By: Kristan Higgins

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it.From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgi… read more

Similar categories in Kristan Higgins's Always the Last to Know book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Love isn’t always the thing that fills up the room, or your heart. Sometimes, it’s what sneaks into the in-between spaces."

-Kristan Higgins, Always the Last to Know

"Love didn’t have to be romantic to encircle you in its arms. It didn’t have to make your heart race or your toes curl. Love could be just this, the sound of laughter on a warm night, the absolute com…"

-Kristan Higgins, Always the Last to Know

Cover of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia

29. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

By: Jacob Tobia

4.07

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure… read more

Similar categories in Jacob Tobia's Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Plainly put, the imperative to “be professional"

-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

"No one trans story is better or inherently more “radical"

-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

"Oh, and it should go without saying, but fuck capitalism."

-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

"and patriarchy deems all things feminine to be less intelligent."

-Jacob Tobia, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

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30. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of The Other Mothers by Jennifer Berney

31. The Other Mothers

By: Jennifer Berney

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When Jenn Berney and her wife decided they wanted to have children, they took the next logical step… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers book and Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • parenting
  • lgbt
  • medical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer

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