9 must-read memoir books like In the Early Times: A Life Reframed by Tad Friend

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In the Early Times: A Life Reframed

By: Tad Friend

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this memoir, acclaimed New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend reflects on the pressures of middle ag…

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1. Picture

By: Lillian Ross , Anjelica Huston

4.50

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1950, when New Yorkerstaff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Sharpe's Triumph (Sharpe, #2)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803 India, 1803. Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnes… read more

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3. Father of the Rain

By: Lily King

3.71

Format: None pages,

Award-winning author Lily King's Father of the Rain: spans three decades in a riveting psychologica… read more

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4. The Art of Memoir

By: Mary Karr

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Clubspent more than a y… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

5. Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

As the British army fights its way through India toward a diabolical trap, young private Richard Sh… read more

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6. Not My Father's Son

By: Alan Cumming

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Dark, painful memories can be put away to be forgotten. Until one day they all flood back in horrib… read more

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7. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

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"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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11. Brat: An '80s Story

By: Andrew McCarthy

3.61

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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13. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

Similar categories in David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties book and Tad Friend's In the Early Times: A Life Reframed

  • nonfiction
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14. Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

By: Harley Rustad

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Winner

By: Teddy Wayne

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more

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16. Dr. No

By: Percival Everett

3.71

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more

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"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

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17. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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18. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

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19. In the Early Times: A Life Reframed

By: Tad Friend

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this memoir, acclaimed New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend reflects on the pressures of middle ag… read more

Similar categories in Tad Friend's In the Early Times: A Life Reframed book and Tad Friend's In the Early Times: A Life Reframed

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

20. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

21. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Lillian Ross , Anjelica Huston

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Mary Karr

4.56

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3.86

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Tracy Kidder

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Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Catherine Newman

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