12 must-read memoir books like Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife by Christina Myers

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Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife

By: Christina Myers

4.63

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapi…

If you liked the memoir plot in Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife by Christina Myers , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words

By: Bianca Marais

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apart… read more

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2. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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3. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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4. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

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  • memoir
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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5. 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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"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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6. This Is How We Love

By: Lisa Moore

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What m… read more

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7. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

By: Jami Attenberg

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more

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  • essays
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8. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

By: Tessa Hulls

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more

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  • memoir
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9. Hey, Good Luck Out There

By: Georgia Toews

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Subversive, captivating and vividly attuned to both the extraordinary and the mundane, Georgia Toew… read more

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10. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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11. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

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12. Junie

By: Chelene Knight

3.78

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more

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13. 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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  • memoir
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14. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

By: Brandi Morin

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more

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  • memoir
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15. Skid Dogs

By: Emelia Symington-Fedy

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." Ani Difranco "I fell hard … read more

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  • memoir
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16. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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17. Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery

By: Harrison Mooney

4.35

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard--that of the child at the centre of a transracial a… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt

18. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

By: Angela Sterritt

4.51

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more

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  • memoir
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19. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

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20. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

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21. What’s Not Mine

By: Nora Decter

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

For fans of Miriam Toews, an absorbing, darkly funny story of family, addiction, and survival The s… read more

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22. Asking for a Friend

By: Kerry Clare

3.57

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

For readers of J. Courtney Sullivan and Emma Straub, and for fans of Firefly Lane , comes a poignan… read more

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23. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

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  • essays
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24. Withered

By: A.G.A. Wilmot

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

A queer paranormal psychological horror novel, in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing t… read more

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25. 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

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  • memoir
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26. Halfway Home: Thoughts from Midlife

By: Christina Myers

4.63

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapi… read more

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  • memoir
  • essays
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27. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

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28. Memoir as Medicine: The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story

By: Nancy Slonim Aronie

4.32

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully fresh and frank guide to why and how to write personal stories that will heal, libera… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life by Sadiya Ansari

29. In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life

By: Sadiya Ansari

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three co… read more

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  • memoir
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30. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more

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  • memoir
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31. The Wedding: A Novel

By: Gurjinder Basran

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

You’re invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families,… read more

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17 Best audiobook books like Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery by Harrison Mooney

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Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

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3.93

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