16 must-read memoir books like Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide by Rachel Zimmerman

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Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

By: Rachel Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi…

If you liked the memoir plot in Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide by Rachel Zimmerman , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

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"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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2. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

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4. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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6. Everywhere I Look: A Memoir

By: Ona Gritz

4.47

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Here After

By: Amy Lin

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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12. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more

Similar categories in Kim Mager's A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever book and Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

14. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

  • nonfiction
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15. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

By: Rachel Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide book and Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Where the Forest Meets the River (Dalton, Maine, #2) by Shannon Bowring

16. Where the Forest Meets the River (Dalton, Maine, #2)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America. … read more

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17. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

By: Mary L. Trump

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton

18. 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 Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. The Tricycle: a memoir

By: Sara Harkness Bovitz

4.55

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes life has other plans… Sara Bovitz knew how lucky she was — a fulfilling career as a phys… read more

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20. In This Altered Body: A Survivor’s Story of Resilience and Love

By: Charlene Pell

4.54

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Charlene Pell wears her scars like badges of honor—she has never hidden them. Thirty years ago, … read more

Similar categories in Charlene Pell's In This Altered Body: A Survivor’s Story of Resilience and Love book and Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

  • memoir

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4.34

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