12 Top memoir books like Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead by Cecile Richards

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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

By: Cecile Richards

4.29

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

From Cecile Richards—the president of Planned Parenthood, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richard…

"You don’t have to be a professional troublemaker to take a stand..."

-Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

"You don’t have to be a professional troublemaker to take a stand..."

-Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

"You don’t have to be a professional troublemaker to take a stand..."

-Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

"Don't sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along —find something and make it an opportunity."

-Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

If you liked the memoir plot in Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead by Cecile Richards , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time

By: Bob Harris

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then … read more

Similar categories in Bob Harris's The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture

By: Andy Cohen

4.10

Format: 136 pages,

The man behind the Real Housewives writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brou… read more

Similar categories in Andy Cohen's Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Forward: A Memoir

By: Karen Abbott , Abby Wambach

3.24

Format: 0 pages, ebook

Forwardis the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in … read more

Similar categories in Karen Abbott's Forward: A Memoir book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

4. Marriage of a Thousand Lies

By: S.J. Sindu

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conserv… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Sindu's Marriage of a Thousand Lies book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

5. The Mother of All Questions

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this follow-up to Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers commentary on women who refuse… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's The Mother of All Questions book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

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6. The Evolution of Annabel Craig

By: Lisa Grunwald

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A young Southern woman sets out on a journey of self-discovery as the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial te… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Grunwald's The Evolution of Annabel Craig book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • audiobook
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7. The Wreckage of My Presence

By: Casey Wilson

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multi-talented actress, comedian,… read more

Similar categories in Casey Wilson's The Wreckage of My Presence book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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10. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

By: Laura E. Anderson

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Anderson's When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

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11. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

Similar categories in Mike Hixenbaugh's They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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12. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Lithwick's Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

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13. The Inside Edge

By: Ashlyn Kane

3.65

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

What does a work-life balance look like to recently retired professional athletes? Ex-hockey pl… read more

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14. Pelosi

By: Molly Ball

4.15

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting inside account of the unprecedented rise to power and unmatch… read more

Similar categories in Molly Ball's Pelosi book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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15. Tell Nobody (D.I. Lottie Parker, #5)

By: Patricia Gibney

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The boy’s body was so white it was almost transparent. But that’s not what caused the nausea to ris… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Gibney's Tell Nobody (D.I. Lottie Parker, #5) book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • audiobook
Cover of Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead by Cecile Richards

16. Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

By: Cecile Richards

4.29

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

From Cecile Richards—the president of Planned Parenthood, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richard… read more

Similar categories in Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • audiobook
"You don’t have to be a professional troublemaker to take a stand..."

-Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

"Don't sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along —find something and make it an opportunity."

-Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

"I don't know what my future holds, but I do know I've been fortunate enough to be a troublemaker my whole life."

-Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

"With his face all scrunched up and twisted with anger, he looked just like Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter. Sometimes when someone is making an idiot of themselves, especially on live television, it’s j…"

-Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

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17. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Pelosi's The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

18. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

Similar categories in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Lovely One: A Memoir book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man's World

By: Jennifer Palmieri

None

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Take action and shatter the glass ceiling with this empowering and optimistic feminist guide from t… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Palmieri's She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man's World book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • audiobook
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20. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

Similar categories in Hillary Rodham Clinton's Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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21. Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

By: Jessica Valenti

4.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A clear and concise guide to the politics of post-Roe America, for readers eager to understand the … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Valenti's Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win book and Cecile Richards's Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook

6 Best womens books like Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead by Cecile Richards

Transform Your Habits

One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Pelosi

Molly Ball

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

Cecile Richards

4.29

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20 best-selling audiobook books like The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

Transform Your Habits

You'll Grow Out of It

Jessi Klein

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle

Rachel Dratch

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Molly Shannon

4.13

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