5 Top autobiography books like The Year of the End by Anne Theroux

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The Year of the End

By: Anne Theroux

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

After 22 years, spent across four continents, with two children – Louis and Marcel – in 1990 Anne a…

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1. Vagina: A New Biography

By: Naomi Wolf

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we und… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A New Biography book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women."

-Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

"… todo lo neurológico es real, y además también puede estar en nuestra cabeza."

-Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

"Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?"

-Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

"Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration."

-Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography

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2. So Sad Today: Personal Essays

By: Melissa Broder

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cyc… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's So Sad Today: Personal Essays book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. Small Island

By: Andrea Levy

4.00

Format: None pages,

Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart bro… read more

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4. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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6. Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

By: Peter Everett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organ… read more

Similar categories in Peter Everett's Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

Similar categories in Richard E. Grant's A Pocketful of Happiness book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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9. Theroux the Keyhole

By: Louis Theroux

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestse… read more

Similar categories in Louis Theroux's Theroux the Keyhole book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story

By: Polly Morland

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country… read more

Similar categories in Polly Morland's A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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12. Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

By: Thomas Piketty

3.44

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A chronicle of events that shook the world from the author of Capital in the Twenty‑First Century O… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Piketty's Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Marguerite, a beautiful woman, has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But is foul… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • audiobook
"Inhabiting a female body is such a feat for me, like squeezing into a costume that includes a perfectly fitted face mask through which it is quite a feat to breathe..."

-Joyce Carol Oates, 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

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14. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's A Very Private School: A Memoir book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Rizzio

By: Denise Mina

3.87

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the… read more

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  • audiobook
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16. Learning to Talk

By: Hilary Mantel

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 New York… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Mantel's Learning to Talk book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • audiobook
"Straight is the line of Duty, Curved is the line of Beauty, Follow the straight line, thou shall see. The curved line ever follow thee."

-Hilary Mantel, Learning to Talk

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17. This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

By: Octavia Bright

4.32

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though,… read more

Similar categories in Octavia Bright's This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's My Family: The Memoir book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power

By: Tom Bower

3.01

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans and watchers of the Beckham Netflix documentary who want the rest of the story—an explosiv… read more

Similar categories in Tom Bower's The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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20. The Year of the End

By: Anne Theroux

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

After 22 years, spent across four continents, with two children – Louis and Marcel – in 1990 Anne a… read more

Similar categories in Anne Theroux's The Year of the End book and Anne Theroux's The Year of the End

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Party: The perfect Christmas gift from the Sunday Times bestselling author

By: Tessa Hadley

3.43

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chro… read more

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Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

Nina Stibbe

3.66

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

Peter Everett

4.05

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Richard E. Grant

4.36

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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David Nicholls

4.08

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Anne Enright

3.55

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