13 Top biography books like You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility by Annabelle Gurwitch

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You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

By: Annabelle Gurwitch

3.60

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort comes a timely and hilarious…

If you liked the biography plot in You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility by Annabelle Gurwitch , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Unfamiliar Fishes

By: Sarah Vowell

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction

2. The Right Side

By: Spencer Quinn

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

LeAnne Hogan went to Afghanistan as a rising star in the military, and came back a much lesser pers… read more

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3. The Suspect

By: L.R. Wright

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this, L.R. Wright's first mystery novel, we are introduced to RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg; a… read more

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4. Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality

By: Jacob Tomsky

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Kitchen Confidentialand Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically i… read more

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5. My Mother and Other Wild Animals

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.90

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A mother and son embark on the road trip of a lifetime in a charming, poignant essay about making m… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Sean Greer's My Mother and Other Wild Animals book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

Similar categories in J. Thomas Grant's The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Wine People

By: Michelle Wildgen

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rich, intoxicating escape into the hedonistic and cutthroat world of wine and what happens when t… read more

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9. End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

By: Patty Lin

3.79

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a compl… read more

Similar categories in Patty Lin's End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
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10. Dead Tired (The Expectant Detectives, #2)

By: Kat Ailes

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

9 hours, 30 minutes The second in a charming and hilarious mystery series by Kat Ailes, Dead Ti… read more

Similar categories in Kat Ailes's Dead Tired (The Expectant Detectives, #2) book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • humor
Cover of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

11. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • nonfiction
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12. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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13. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • memoir
  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

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14. I've Tried Being Nice: Essays

By: Ann Leary

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from t… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leary's I've Tried Being Nice: Essays book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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15. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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16. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

By: Margo Jefferson

3.77

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more

Similar categories in Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova

17. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

By: Maria Konnikova

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed … read more

Similar categories in Maria Konnikova's The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of What a Fool Believes: A Memoir by Michael McDonald

18. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir

By: Michael McDonald

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more

Similar categories in Michael McDonald's What a Fool Believes: A Memoir book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail by Joan M. Griffin

19. Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

By: Joan M. Griffin

4.44

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, an… read more

Similar categories in Joan M. Griffin's Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

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

20. 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 Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • humor
  • nonfiction
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

21. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr

22. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

By: Caleb Carr

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of  The Alienist,  Caleb  Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more

Similar categories in Caleb Carr's My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir by Pidgeon Pagonis

23. Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

By: Pidgeon Pagonis

4.37

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, li… read more

Similar categories in Pidgeon Pagonis's Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Hey, hey, listen,"

-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

"The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be."

-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

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24. The Ugly Cry

By: Danielle Henderson

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who wanted to start a new family with her drug-addicted, abu… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Henderson's The Ugly Cry book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were."

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

"Danielle Elizabeth Henderson! Get your ass over here!' she shouted. Grandma always used my full name when she was angry. None of the shoppers around her turned a head or lifted a finger to help; in t…"

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

"My grandparents got creative to make space for three kids in their two-bedroom home. They took one of the bedrooms, my mom and aunt shared the other, and my uncle Bobby slept on the screened-in porch…"

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

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25. The Life of the Mind

By: Christine Smallwood

3.28

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction--"… read more

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26. Body Grammar

By: Jules Ohman

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling … read more

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27. All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

By: Betty Gilpin

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Like Jenny Lawson and Caitlin Moran, Emmy-nominated actress and writer Betty Gilpin delivers a ligh… read more

Similar categories in Betty Gilpin's All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"... it is going to take centuries to stop the chorus of people telling you that your highest purpose as a woman is to minimize your waistline and being, Your realizing that that's bullshit before the…"

-Betty Gilpin, All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

"In my humble, probably wrong, select-all-delete opinion, we womenfolk today are faced with a decision: Salem or Barbie. We can either rip off the internal trapdoor that your Alanis Plath of Arc has b…"

-Betty Gilpin, All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

"With no proof whatsoever, just somehow knowing as 1,000 percent fact - I come from a long line of women who stayed in bed all day. Or who dreamed about it when society forced them to a luncheon or cr…"

-Betty Gilpin, All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

Cover of You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets by Jodi Wellman

28. You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets

By: Jodi Wellman

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A kick-in-the-pants wake-up call to start living meaningfully in light of how many Mondays you have… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Wellman's You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • nonfiction
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29. The Faculty Lounge

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • humor
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30. Big in Sweden

By: Sally Franson

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A charming, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny novel following an American woman competing on a Swedish… read more

Similar categories in Sally Franson's Big in Sweden book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • humor
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31. You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

By: Annabelle Gurwitch

3.60

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort comes a timely and hilarious… read more

Similar categories in Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility book and Annabelle Gurwitch's You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
  • comedy

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Sarah Vowell

4.02

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Andrew Sean Greer

3.90

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Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

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4.24

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4.54

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4.14

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