12 must-read memoir books like The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith

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The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

By: Laura Smith

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and ad…

If you liked the memoir plot in The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Torn Skirt

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.43

Format: 344 pages,

Sara's world is circa 1984, Victoria, B.C., Canada's prettiest city.But over at Mt. Douglas (a.k.a.… read more

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  • contemporary
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2. The Dance Of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

By: Harriet Lerner

3.94

Format: None pages,

"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to,"writes Dr. Harriet Lerner, in her renowned classic t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

Similar categories in Annie Dillard's The Writing Life book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. A Certain Age (A Certain Age, #1)

By: Beatriz Williams

3.65

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this… read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's A Certain Age (A Certain Age, #1) book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • mystery
  • audiobook
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5. Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

By: Claire Dederer

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocio… read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

6. Death and Judgment (Commissario Brunetti, #4)

By: Donna Leon

3.44

Format: 96 pages,

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7. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

By: David Roberts

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… read more

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8. Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir

By: None

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"I invited the child I was once to have her say in these pages. I am the one who came out on the ot… read more

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9. Light on Snow

By: Anita Shreve

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid December day 19 years … read more

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10. Acqua Alta (Commissario Brunetti, #5)

By: Donna Leon

3.94

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Donna Leon's growing American fan base is hungry for more of the books from her internationally bes… read more

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11. Still Life with Bread Crumbs

By: Anna Quindlen

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Still Life with Bread Crumbsbegins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between t… read more

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12. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

Similar categories in Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Out of the Corner

By: Jennifer Grey

3.81

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Grey's Out of the Corner book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of This Book book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • audiobook
  • biography memoir
  • contemporary
"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

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16. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's A Book of Days book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Castle Shade (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #17) by Laurie R. King

18. Castle Shade (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #17)

By: Laurie R. King

4.08

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this ch… read more

Similar categories in Laurie R. King's Castle Shade (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #17) book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Many ancient peoples believed in a land of shade, where the dead dwell in a twilight underworld. In Hebrew, it is tsalmaveth , the death-shadow. In one of the more peculiar Biblical passages, King Sa…"

-Laurie R. King, Castle Shade (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #17)

"One cannot overlook the number of young women and girls involved,' he pointed out. 'Well they do make up somewhat more than half the population.' 'Yes, and because women are often kept in a position …"

-Laurie R. King, Castle Shade (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #17)

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19. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

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20. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Ford's Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

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21. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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22. Twenty-One Days (Daniel Pitt, #1)

By: Anne Perry

4.10

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

In this first book in a new series, Thomas Pitt's son Daniel races to save his client from executio… read more

Similar categories in Anne Perry's Twenty-One Days (Daniel Pitt, #1) book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • mystery
  • audiobook
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23. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

By: Patti McCracken

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more

Similar categories in Patti McCracken's The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir by Jacqueline Winspear

24. This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.96

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the fa… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Memories appear in flashes of light, in short scenes, in reflections that can make us laugh or bring us to tears."

-Jacqueline Winspear, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir

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25. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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26. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Dey's Daughter book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
Cover of The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) by Claire North

27. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

By: Claire North

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • audiobook
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28. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
Cover of The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite

29. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards

By: Jessica Waite

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Waite's The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith

30. The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

By: Laura Smith

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and ad… read more

Similar categories in Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust book and Laura Smith's The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • marriage
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn by Jeanne Beker

31. Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn

By: Jeanne Beker

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Fashion and style icon Jeanne Beker delivers an uplifting and inspiring memoir that walks us throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

7 must-read contemporary books like The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith

Transform Your Habits

The Torn Skirt

Rebecca Godfrey

3.43

Transform Your Habits

The Hero of This Book

Elizabeth McCracken

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

Olivia Ford

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Daughter

Claudia Dey

3.95

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5 Best womens books like Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning by Claire Dederer

Transform Your Habits

Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

Claire Dederer

3.69

Transform Your Habits

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Sara Petersen

3.35

Transform Your Habits

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Lynne Tillman

3.49

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