8 best-selling biography books like The Big Silence: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness and Healing by Karena Dawn

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The Big Silence: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness and Healing

By: Karena Dawn

4.12

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Quiet your mind, and the silence will help you hear your inner voice—the one that says, “Stay stron…

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1. Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit

By: Caroline Myss

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A bold account of the development of human consciousness and spirituality over the ages and an exam… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing."

-Caroline Myss, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit

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2. Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

By: Caroline Myss

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Building on wisdom from Hindu, Christian, and Kaballah traditions, this comprehensive guide to ener… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

3. Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

By: Jewel

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventio… read more

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4. Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

By: Christopher Vaughan , None

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Read Stuart Brown's posts on the Penguin Blog. From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the … read more

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5. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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6. All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"It takes courage to live through heartbreak. Breathing is n o small feat"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"I will stretch my hands up to the sky, to say, “I am afraid but I will try,"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"While we are trying to make sense of things, may we learn to make peace with things."

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

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7. This Body I Wore: A Memoir

By: Diana Goetsch

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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9. Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

By: Nedra Glover Tawwab

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace , a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Visit the past, but don't stay there."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"You can love your parents and be upset about how they raised you."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think."

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

"When you don't want to participate in gossiping: "I’d like to hear more about what’s happening with you"

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

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10. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

By: Jamie Kern Lima

4.07

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

What has self-doubt already cost you in your life?Imagine what you’d do if you FULLY believed in YO… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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12. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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13. A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free

By: Shefali Tsabary

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and renowned clinical psychologist teaches women how to trans… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. Glow in the F*cking Dark

By: Tara Schuster

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

The author of the runaway hit Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies shares honest and practical lessons f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
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15. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

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16. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Good Grief

By: Brianna M. Pastor

4.06

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An expanded edition with over forty brand-new poems of the bestselling poetry collection Good Grief… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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18. Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir

By: Kimiko Tobimatsu

4.04

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection

By: Emma Lovewell

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A memoir chronicling Emma Lovewell’s incredible path to physical―and mental―fitness that traces her… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • self help
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20. Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

By: Mari Andrew

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Adulting meets Hyperbole and a Half in this witty, starkly honest, and absolutely on-point book of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • self help
"What I love most about living isn't accomplishing things, but experiencing them."

-Mari Andrew, Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

"Spring is the promise of a solution to a problem (the problem being winter...) I believe we all kind of secretly expect that on March 21 of each year the cold clouds will part like silver drapes, unv…"

-Mari Andrew, Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

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21. The Big Silence: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness and Healing

By: Karena Dawn

4.12

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Quiet your mind, and the silence will help you hear your inner voice—the one that says, “Stay stron… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • self help

18 best-selling nonfiction books like The Big Silence: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness and Healing by Karena Dawn

Transform Your Habits

Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit

Caroline Myss

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

Caroline Myss

2.00

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

Morgan Harper Nichols

4.22

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22 must-read nonfiction books like Good Grief by Brianna M. Pastor

Transform Your Habits

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Clarity & Connection

Yung Pueblo

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Velvet Dragonflies

Billy Chapata

4.14

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