9 Best nonfiction books like How to Lose Everything: A Memoir by Christa Couture

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How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

By: Christa Couture

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Enduring a series of devastating losses, Christa Couture shares her experiences in navigating grief…

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1. The Sisters of Alameda Street

By: Lorena Hughes

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and intrigue of a Latin soap ope… read more

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2. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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3. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • adult
  • canada
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4. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks

By: Emily Pennington

3.18

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

A bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous … read more

Similar categories in Emily Pennington's Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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7. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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8. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

By: Suleika Jaouad

4.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"To learn to swim in the ocean of not-knowing- this is my constant work."

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

"It's a funny thing, coming home. Everything smells the same, looks the same, feels the same, but you are different; the contrast between who you were when you left and who you are now is heightened a…"

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

"If you need to reach me, or send me anything I'll hopefully have access to email, but who knows how alert I'll be...Please don't ask too many questions about what the logistics look like, or where an…"

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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9. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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10. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

By: Rebekah Taussig

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more

Similar categories in Rebekah Taussig's Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • disability
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"

-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

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11. Em

By: Kim Thúy

4.11

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Em, c'est le fil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de m… read more

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  • canada
"När soldaterna återvänder till basen ordnar armén med läkemedel åt alla som fått med sig oönskade souvenirer mellan benen. Några åtgärder för att utrota de frön som såtts i somliga kvinnors kroppar h…"

-Kim Thúy, Em

"Tâm can describe in detail how the soldiers slipped the ace of spades into their helmet straps, sleeves rolled up above their elbows, the cuffs of their pant legs tucked into their boots. On the othe…"

-Kim Thúy, Em

"Operation Ranch Hand skulle sannolikt ha varit en hyllad militär strategi om det inte varit för alla amerikanska soldater som också de drabbades av växtgifterna. Meningen var att gravitationskraften …"

-Kim Thúy, Em

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12. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • adult
  • canada
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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13. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

By: Jesse Thistle

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more

Similar categories in Jesse Thistle's From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
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14. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • queer
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15. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • canada
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16. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

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  • canada
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17. Such a Bad Influence

By: Olivia Muenter

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more

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  • adult
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18. The Seven Generations and The Seven Grandfather Teachings

By: James Vukelich

4.68

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover indigenous wisdom for a life well lived in “The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfathe… read more

Similar categories in James Vukelich's The Seven Generations and The Seven Grandfather Teachings book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
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19. Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

By: Nadine Sander-Green

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A woman’s coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal―set against the stark… read more

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  • canada
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20. Take Your Baby And Run: How nurses blew the whistle on Canada’s biggest cardiac disaster

By: Carol Youngson

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Foreword by Lanette Siragusa, RN NM Take Your Baby and Run  is Carol Youngson's first-hand account … read more

Similar categories in Carol Youngson's Take Your Baby And Run: How nurses blew the whistle on Canada’s biggest cardiac disaster book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of How to Lose Everything: A Memoir by Christa Couture

21. How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

By: Christa Couture

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Enduring a series of devastating losses, Christa Couture shares her experiences in navigating grief… read more

Similar categories in Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir book and Christa Couture's How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • disability
  • queer

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Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

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Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

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Tanya Tagaq

3.91

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4.28

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Éric Chacour

4.43

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Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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