21 Best audiobook books like This is How I Save My Life: A True Story of Finding Everything When You are Willing to Try Anything by Amy B. Scher

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This is How I Save My Life: A True Story of Finding Everything When You are Willing to Try Anything

By: Amy B. Scher

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Amy Scher is a brave warrior and a wonderful writer." - ELIZABETH GILBERT, #1 New York Times bests…

If you liked the audiobook plot in This is How I Save My Life: A True Story of Finding Everything When You are Willing to Try Anything by Amy B. Scher , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Hidden Messages in Water

By: Masaru Emoto , David A. Thayne

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

In this New York Times bestseller, internationally renowned Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto shows h… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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2. Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

By: William Davis

3.95

Format: 302 pages,

Renowned cardiologist, William Davis, MD explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent … read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Age of Miracles

By: Karen Thompson Walker

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

"It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my fa… read more

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4. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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5. When Bad Things Happen to Good People

By: Harold S. Kushner

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he woul… read more

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6. Blackbird House

By: Alice Hoffman

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms u… read more

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7. Black Rabbit Hall

By: Eve Chase

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here's a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets… read more

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8. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

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"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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10. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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11. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

By: Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following  New York Times  bestselling author and ac… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Wives: A Memoir

By: Simone Gorrindo

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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14. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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15. Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy

By: Aundi Kolber

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

"In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aund… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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18. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

By: Suleika Jaouad

4.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from … read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To learn to swim in the ocean of not-knowing- this is my constant work."

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

"It's a funny thing, coming home. Everything smells the same, looks the same, feels the same, but you are different; the contrast between who you were when you left and who you are now is heightened a…"

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

"If you need to reach me, or send me anything I'll hopefully have access to email, but who knows how alert I'll be...Please don't ask too many questions about what the logistics look like, or where an…"

-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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19. The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life

By: Jen Gotch

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An entertaining, humorous, and inspirational memoir by the founder and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. The Last Animal

By: Ramona Ausubel

3.47

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more

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  • audiobook
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21. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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22. The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain

By: Alan Gordon

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research.Chronic pain is an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The truth about resilience is that it's a learned behavior. If you gravitate toward hopelessness, it's not because you're hopeless, but because your brain has done it so many times before. If your mi…"

-Alan Gordon, The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain

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23. You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

By: Kat Timpf

3.80

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 4… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"The Bottom Line: When you say that words are violence, you inherently are saying that violence is an acceptable response to words, because violence is universally considered an acceptable response to…"

-Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

"A better standard would be intention. If someone says something that offends us - but their intentions was humor - than we should respond far differently to that than we would if the person intended …"

-Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

Cover of The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts by Mary Claire Haver

24. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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25. Waiting for the Monsoon

By: Rod Nordland

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air, the New York Times's legendary war correspondent deli… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. The Female Persuasion

By: Meg Wolitzer

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of bei… read more

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  • audiobook
"She read with “abandon,"

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"If you want more to do,"

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"Women in powerful positions are never safe from criticism."

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"The human face had too possibilities, and they just kept coming in a fast-moving slide show, one after another."

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

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27. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

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  • audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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28. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

By: Alan Townsend

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. … read more

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30. This is How I Save My Life: A True Story of Finding Everything When You are Willing to Try Anything

By: Amy B. Scher

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Amy Scher is a brave warrior and a wonderful writer." - ELIZABETH GILBERT, #1 New York Times bests… read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • india
  • illness
  • audiobook
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31. The Bog Wife

By: Kay Chronister

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more

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3.95

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Margaret Renkl

4.37

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4.02

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