6 must-read nonfiction books like Wide Open by D.M. Ditson

Cover of Wide Open by D.M. Ditson

Wide Open

By: D.M. Ditson

4.27

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Wide Open is a memoir about faith and loss of faith, about sexual assault and about the astounding …

"What if there are no villains at all?"

-D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

"What if there are no villains at all?"

-D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

"These lilies are a sacrifice, a savagery, another death needed to remember that which is no more."

-D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

"These lilies are a sacrifice, a savagery, another death needed to remember that which is no more."

-D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Wide Open by D.M. Ditson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Concubine's Children by Denise Chong

1. The Concubine's Children

By: Denise Chong

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Concubine’s Children is the story of a family cleaved in two for the sake of a father’s dream. … read more

Similar categories in Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children book and D.M. Ditson's Wide Open

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. Writing the Memoir

By: Judith Barrington

3.40

Format: 96 pages,

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3. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

By: Yeonmi Park , Maryanne Vollers

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually m… read more

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4. Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

By: Lorna Crozier

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A volume of poignant recollections by one of Canada's most celebrated poets, Small Beneath the Sky … read more

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5. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and D.M. Ditson's Wide Open

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more

Similar categories in Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries book and D.M. Ditson's Wide Open

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Pain expanded my heart."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"You are such a home to me."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

Cover of Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

7. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

By: Johann Hari

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more

Similar categories in Johann Hari's Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again book and D.M. Ditson's Wide Open

  • nonfiction
"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."

-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

Cover of Wide Open by D.M. Ditson

8. Wide Open

By: D.M. Ditson

4.27

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Wide Open is a memoir about faith and loss of faith, about sexual assault and about the astounding … read more

Similar categories in D.M. Ditson's Wide Open book and D.M. Ditson's Wide Open

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"What if there are no villains at all?"

-D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

"These lilies are a sacrifice, a savagery, another death needed to remember that which is no more."

-D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

"Months ago I shared my secrets with him and recognized the tenderness in his voice like I'd only given him more to love. Like a diamond that's been cut and now all its edges gleam."

-D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

"It passes away like the end of a day, like a toddler’s first goldfish, like a leaf in the autumn, like grandparents, like fruit flies, like memories, like a flower that’s been picked, like childhood …"

-D.M. Ditson, Wide Open

Cover of Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir by Kelley Jo Burke

9. Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir

By: Kelley Jo Burke

3.77

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Kelley Jo Burke embarks on a wild journey to understand many things, including the part where her g… read more

Similar categories in Kelley Jo Burke's Wreck: A Very Anxious Memoir book and D.M. Ditson's Wide Open

  • memoir
Cover of Every Little Scrap and Wonder by Carla Funk

10. Every Little Scrap and Wonder

By: Carla Funk

3.60

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, sh… read more

Similar categories in Carla Funk's Every Little Scrap and Wonder book and D.M. Ditson's Wide Open

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

6 Best memoir books like Wide Open by D.M. Ditson

Transform Your Habits

The Concubine's Children

Denise Chong

3.91

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

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Heart Berries

Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

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Wide Open

D.M. Ditson

4.27

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Transform Your Habits

Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

Rachel Reiland

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods

Julia Butterfly Hill

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Scent of God: A Memoir

Beryl Singleton Bissell

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Concubine's Children

Denise Chong

3.91

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