22 must-read memoir books like You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success by Al Roker

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You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

By: Al Roker

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Dick Van Dyke's Keep Moving and Dan Rather's Rather Outspoken, Today co-anchor …

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1. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

By: Brené Brown

4.13

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we k… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"When we're suffering, may of us are better at causing pain than feeling it. We spread hurt rather than let it inside."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"(Quoting Viola Davis) I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in…"

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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2. Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

3.70

Format: 186 pages,

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Similar categories in Nellie Bly's Ten Days in a Mad-House book and Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. The Little Bookshop on the Seine

By: Rebecca Raisin

4.04

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Le Vie En Rose Bookshop owner Sarah Smith has been offered the opportunity to exchange bookshops wi… read more

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4. 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

By: Wayne W. Dyer

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and lecturer Wayne W. Dyerhas created this DVD, based on his thought-provoking b… read more

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5. Seriously... I'm Kidding

By: Ellen DeGeneres

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing." Ellen Degeneres' winning, upbeat candor … read more

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6. Lucky Man

By: Michael J. Fox

4.25

Format: 512 pages,

In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkin… read more

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7. The Seaside Library

By: Brenda Novak

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookstore on the Beach There are secrets that br… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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9. Zora Books Her Happy Ever After

By: Taj McCoy

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Zora has committed every inch of her life to establishing her thriving DC bookstore, making it into… read more

Similar categories in Taj McCoy's Zora Books Her Happy Ever After book and Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

By: Valerie Bertinelli

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and  New York Times  best… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Like a River: Finding the Faith and Strength to Move Forward after Loss and Heartache

By: Granger Smith

4.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, ECPA Bestseller 'Country mus… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

By: Thomas Fisher

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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14. Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

4.17

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling loo… read more

Similar categories in J. Randy Taraborrelli's Jackie: Public, Private, Secret book and Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

By: Oprah Winfrey

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, "Your real job in life is to figure out as… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny. And your ruby slippers are ready to carry you hom…"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

"Whatever your calling, it's already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with o…"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

"Your life is always speaking to you in whispers, guiding you to your next right step. And in many situations, the whisper is also the first warning. It’s a quiet nudge from deep within saying, Hmmm, …"

-Oprah Winfrey, The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

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16. No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

By: Michael J. Fox

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our live… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

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18. How Are You, Really? Living Your Truth One Answer at a Time

By: Jenna Kutcher

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Forget hustle harder. Forget a mandatory 5 a.m. wake-up. Forget outlining your life plan in six-mon… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Kutcher's How Are You, Really? Living Your Truth One Answer at a Time book and Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"You are the investment, not the risk!"

-Jenna Kutcher, How Are You, Really? Living Your Truth One Answer at a Time

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19. Grimoire Girl: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief

By: Hilarie Burton Morgan

4.23

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller  The long-awaited next book from actress and New York Times bestselling … read more

Similar categories in Hilarie Burton Morgan's Grimoire Girl: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief book and Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life

By: Billy Dee Williams

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham

21. I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

By: Stephanie Grisham

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

22. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration by Ali Wentworth

23. Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration

By: Ali Wentworth

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friends… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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24. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir

By: Michael McDonald

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more

Similar categories in Michael McDonald's What a Fool Believes: A Memoir book and Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. A Well-Behaved Woman

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, In 1883, the New York Times prints a leng… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"Yet she understood a truth she could never say aloud: this ideal life was still deficient. She was not wholly content. Perhaps she should be, but contentment, she had learned, lay beyond money's cons…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

"Alva did suffer when the next wave came, and again and again and again, but a short while later she brought into the Vanderbilt family a girl with tufts of dark hair and wide eyes and the sweetest li…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

"Consuelo was correct: marrying for money alone was not ideal. Alva hoped for status, too - though not for the reasons her mother had sought it, self-importance and admiration. Status gave a woman mor…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

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26. The Next Chapter: Making Peace with Hard Memories, Finding Hope All Around Me, and Clearing Space for Good Things to Come

By: Jana Kramer

3.91

Format: 304 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling author and country music superstar, Jana Kramer, reveals how she said go… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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27. The World's Worst Assistant

By: Sona Movsesian

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Conan O’Brien’s longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Mein Assistent findet das Streben nach dem göttlichen griechischen Staat Arete „lahm“ und sollte „einen Schwanz essen“. - Conan O'Brien"

-Sona Movsesian, The World's Worst Assistant

Cover of Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope (A Bestselling Basketball Memoir) by Carmelo Anthony

28. Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope (A Bestselling Basketball Memoir)

By: Carmelo Anthony

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier by Rory Feek

29. Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier

By: Rory Feek

4.27

Format: 240 pages, ebook

National Bestseller Sometimes it's not only what we plant but where we're planted. Now raisin… read more

Similar categories in Rory Feek's Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier book and Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

30. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

By: Al Roker

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Dick Van Dyke's Keep Moving and Dan Rather's Rather Outspoken, Today co-anchor … read more

Similar categories in Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success book and Al Roker's You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook

14 must-read adult books like You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success by Al Roker

Transform Your Habits

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Brené Brown

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

Henry Winkler

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Zora Books Her Happy Ever After

Taj McCoy

3.46

Transform Your Habits

The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

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Taj McCoy

3.46

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The Neighbor Favor (The Greene Sisters)

Kristina Forest

3.82

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Tati Richardson

3.86

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Kennedy Ryan

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