They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
By: Lori Jakiela
4.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice is much more than a cancer memoir. It's a meditation on liv…
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the memoir plot in They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So by Lori Jakiela , here is a list of 17 books like this:
1. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
By: Gregory Boyle
4.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Father Gregory Boyle’s sparkling parables about kinship and the sacredness of life are drawn from t… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Gregory Boyle's Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"If you can't fix it, feature it."-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
"Sometimes, it only seems that the hurt wins."-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
"Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace."-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
"[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace."-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
2. The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better
By: Gretchen Rubin
3.54
Format: 337 pages, Audio CD
In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Beforeand Th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gretchen Rubin's The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
3. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
By: Sy Montgomery
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Boy, Snow, Bird
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exa… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
5. Machine Dreams
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
In her highly acclaimed debut novel, the bestselling author of Shelterintroduces the Hampsons, an o… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Machine Dreams book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
6. Mysticism for Beginners: Poems
By: Adam Zagajewski , Clare Cavanagh
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
Powerful New work by a modern master. You must listen, listen, listen. Tired springs breathe under … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Adam Zagajewski's Mysticism for Beginners: Poems book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
7. Animal Dreams
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet drea… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
8. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Carson McCullers's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
9. Daddy Was a Number Runner
By: James Baldwin , Louise Meriwether
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
This beloved modern classic documents the lives and hardships of an African American family living … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in James Baldwin's Daddy Was a Number Runner book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
10. The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
By: Diana Helmuth
3.76
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A skeptic’s year-long quest to find spiritual fulfillment through modern Witchcraft, perfect for fa… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Diana Helmuth's The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"It occurs to me that the energy in my body is the same as the energy in the red power lights, just a different current. What’s inside the office lights is inside me. It’s also what’s in the stars a m…"-Diana Helmuth, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
11. 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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
12. My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
By: Rachel DeLoache Williams
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delv… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Rachel DeLoache Williams's My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
14. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
15. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
16. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
Want to Read $ 9.00Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
17. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
18. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
By: Anne Lamott
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow co… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Look around and see whom you can serve."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"…[I] know that the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"Love is gentle if sometimes amused warmth for annoying and deeply disappointing people, especially ourselves."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
19. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
20. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
Want to Read $ 7.79Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Drew Gilpin Faust's Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
22. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.25
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
23. A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem (Ladies Most Scandalous, #1)
By: Manda Collins
3.44
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An intrepid female reporter matches wits with a serious, sexy detective in award-winning author Man… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Manda Collins's A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem (Ladies Most Scandalous, #1) book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
24. Road Out of Winter
By: Alison Stine
3.68
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and pove… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Alison Stine's Road Out of Winter book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
"The world's gone crazy,' Grayson said. 'No,' Janey said, looking out the window. 'It was always this way."-Alison Stine, Road Out of Winter
25. Where Angels Fear to Tread
By: E.M. Forster
3.60
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton jour… read more
Want to Read $ 0.99Similar categories in E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
"We were mad - drunk with rebellion."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"Pretty things pack just the same as ugly ones."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
"Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist."-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
26. I Was a Teenage Slasher
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.68
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
27. Lesbian Love Story
By: Amelia Possanza
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey in… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Amelia Possanza's Lesbian Love Story book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Lesbians, in my eyes, are defined as the ones who invent their own systems of love: Romantic love. Family love. Friend love. A love for community, and for strangers too. They love when there is nothi…"-Amelia Possanza, Lesbian Love Story
28. They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
By: Lori Jakiela
4.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice is much more than a cancer memoir. It's a meditation on liv… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
29. Pittsburghese (Wheelbarrow Books)
By: Robert Gibb
3.86
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Pittsburghese, Robert Gibb’s latest book of poems, is a work of poignant remembrance, filled with r… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Gibb's Pittsburghese (Wheelbarrow Books) book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
30. All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food
By: Sheila Squillante
4.37
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Through lyrical and intimate personal essays, All Things Edible, Random and Odd delivers a portrait… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Sheila Squillante's All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (American Lives)
By: Sherrie Flick
4.57
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Homing is a feminist anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt, with essays braidin… read more
Want to Read $ 17.62Similar categories in Sherrie Flick's Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (American Lives) book and Lori Jakiela's They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So
- memoir
