14 must-read nonfiction books like Finish Strong: Putting YOUR Priorities First at Life’s End (first edition) by Barbara Coombs Lee

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Finish Strong: Putting YOUR Priorities First at Life’s End (first edition)

By: Barbara Coombs Lee

4.34

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

From the president of Compassion & Choices, the guide to achieving the positive end-of-life experie…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Finish Strong: Putting YOUR Priorities First at Life’s End (first edition) by Barbara Coombs Lee , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Good Lord Bird

By: James McBride

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy … read more

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2. Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4)

By: Tana French

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller and quintessential Tana French thriller--a damaged hero, an unspeakable… read more

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3. Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee, #19)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back! The supremely talented daughter of New York Ti… read more

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4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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5. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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7. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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9. The Shadow Murders (Department Q, #9)

By: Jussi Adler-Olsen

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In the penultimate thriller of the 'New York Times' and number one internationally best-selling Dep… read more

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10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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11. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

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12. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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13. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

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14. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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16. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

By: Kristen Radtke

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

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17. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

By: Sarah Smarsh

3.76

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical … read more

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  • nonfiction
"When I found your name, in my early adulthood, I don't think I'd ever heard the term "white working class". The experience it describes contains both racial privilege and economic disadvantage, which…"

-Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

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18. Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

4.31

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Beyond That, the Sea

By: Laura Spence-Ash

4.24

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of t… read more

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20. Heavy

By: Kiese Laymon

4.48

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

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21. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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22. One Life

By: Megan Rapinoe

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Thread Collectors

By: Shaunna J. Edwards

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroid… read more

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"As everyone around her knew, there were so many ways to not be free."

-Shaunna J. Edwards, The Thread Collectors

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24. The Last Train to Key West (The Perez Family #3)

By: Chanel Cleeton

4.10

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels… read more

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25. Call of the Penguins (Veronica McCreedy, #2)

By: Hazel Prior

4.10

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Veronica McCreedy can't resist the promise of adventure . . . Nine-year-old Daisy and nearly nin… read more

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26. Her Last Affair

By: John Searles

3.33

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help for the Haunted and Strange but True, a new novel of character-… read more

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27. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

By: Erin Litteken

4.46

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Beekeeper of Aleppo. In the 1930s, Stalin… read more

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28. Beheld

By: TaraShea Nesbit

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a stranger’s arr… read more

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"All I had to protect myself was my mouth. So I spoketh."

-TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

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29. The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

By: Andrew D. Kaufman

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Remember this, Anya,"

-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

"Standing quietly in the shade of the literary giant Dostoyevsky, his wife Anna is often erased from the historical record."

-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

"His widow Anna dedicated most of her energy in her later years to shaping Dostoyevsky’s legacy and presenting it to the world."

-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

"Not only had his wife Anna made Dostoyevsky’s creations possible, but, in a way, Anna was the [female] ideal behind his creations."

-Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky

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30. Behind Every Good Man

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.41

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A wronged wife goes toe to toe with her cheating husband at the polls in this hilarious and heart-l… read more

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31. Finish Strong: Putting YOUR Priorities First at Life’s End (first edition)

By: Barbara Coombs Lee

4.34

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

From the president of Compassion & Choices, the guide to achieving the positive end-of-life experie… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • death

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