21 must-read biography books like Filthy Beasts: A Memoir by Kirkland Hamill

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Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

By: Kirkland Hamill

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this gripping, true riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy fa…

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1. Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

By: Regina Calcaterra

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early … read more

Similar categories in Regina Calcaterra's Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I've just stepped into the kitchen when Rosie's glass fall and shatters on the living room floor, inches from Cookie's ear. (page 54)"

-Regina Calcaterra, Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

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2. The Sound of Gravel

By: Ruth Wariner

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist cult. Ruth Wari… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Wariner's The Sound of Gravel book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Liars' Club

By: Mary Karr

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more

Similar categories in Mary Karr's The Liars' Club book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

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4. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

Similar categories in Stephen McCauley's You Only Call When You're in Trouble book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
Cover of The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle    Tometich

5. 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 Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew by Patti   Davis

6. Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew

By: Patti Davis

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the p… read more

Similar categories in Patti Davis's Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

7. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • mental illness
  • 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

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9. 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 Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • 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

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10. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

By: Kyleigh Leddy

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more

Similar categories in Kyleigh Leddy's The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says “I once meant something to somebody."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

Cover of Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1) by Danielle Arceneaux

11. Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)

By: Danielle Arceneaux

3.81

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the uncensored amateur sleuth G… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Arceneaux's Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1) book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • audiobook
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12. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

By: Maggie Bullock

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Bullock's The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

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

13. 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 Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. In the Shadow of the Greenbrier

By: Emily Matchar

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga inspired by remarkable, yet little-known, true even… read more

Similar categories in Emily Matchar's In the Shadow of the Greenbrier book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • audiobook
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15. 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 Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: 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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16. Moth

By: Melody Razak

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old da… read more

Similar categories in Melody Razak's Moth book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • mental health
"There is purpose and beauty in chaos...just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there."

-Melody Razak, Moth

"He had known then the value of his ancient homelands: that India was many complexities of tribe and dialect and ritual woven together, an inextricable fabric of pulsating life. How could anyone put b…"

-Melody Razak, Moth

"...the process of transformation starts with decay..." "And then you have something beautiful?" asks Alma. "But first you have something ugly, my love. Foul and fair always live together," replies Ma…"

-Melody Razak, Moth

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17. Never Simple

By: Liz Scheier

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love betwee… read more

Similar categories in Liz Scheier's Never Simple book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Clearly I hadn't actually won the Shitty Family Olympics, just placed in the qualifiers. It could've been worse."

-Liz Scheier, Never Simple

"Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted."

-Liz Scheier, Never Simple

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18. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

By: Debora Harding

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more

Similar categories in Debora Harding's Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

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

19. 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 Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

By: Nash Jenkins

3.88

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Prep meets The Secret History in this sprawling debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American p… read more

Similar categories in Nash Jenkins's Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • audiobook
"When I witness certain moments I believe I am a voyeur to the memories being made, and it makes me sad"

-Nash Jenkins, Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

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21. 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 Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. This Will Be Funny Later

By: Jenny Pentland

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding yo… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Pentland's This Will Be Funny Later book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood by Stephen   Mills

23. Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood

By: Stephen Mills

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir "An unparalleled achievement , a work of shatt… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Mills's Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. No Happy Endings

By: Nora McInerny Purmort

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interv… read more

Similar categories in Nora McInerny Purmort's No Happy Endings book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. What We Carry: A Memoir

By: Maya Shanbhag Lang

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In caring for her aging mother and her own young daughter, writer Maya Shanbhag Lang--"a new voice … read more

Similar categories in Maya Shanbhag Lang's What We Carry: A Memoir book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • audiobook
Cover of No Rules: A Memoir by Sharon Dukett

27. No Rules: A Memoir

By: Sharon Dukett

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this coming-of-age memoir, Sharon takes you with her on a nail-biting adventure through the earl… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Dukett's No Rules: A Memoir book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"For most of us, the line between the destinations in our lives is seldom a straight one."

-Sharon Dukett, No Rules: A Memoir

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28. I'm Not Broken

By: Jesse Leon

4.36

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Leon's I'm Not Broken book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Filthy Beasts: A Memoir by Kirkland Hamill

29. Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

By: Kirkland Hamill

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this gripping, true riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy fa… read more

Similar categories in Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

30. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

By: Ina Garten

4.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling co… read more

Similar categories in Ina Garten's Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique… read more

Similar categories in Stanley Tucci's What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts) book and Kirkland Hamill's Filthy Beasts: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

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4.31

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Ruth Wariner

3.66

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You Only Call When You're in Trouble

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