16 must-read memoir books like The Cure for Good Intentions by Sophie Harrison

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The Cure for Good Intentions

By: Sophie Harrison

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. At the age of twenty-eight, Sophie …

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1. Little Sister

By: Isabel Ashdown

4.50

Format: None pages, ebook

A missing child. A broken mother. A sister who doesn't remember a thing. After sixteen years apart … read more

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2. Still Life

By: Sarah Winman

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more

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"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

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3. The Book of Form and Emptiness

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.03

Format: 548 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more

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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"

-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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4. The Romantic

By: William Boyd

4.15

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more

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5. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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6. Blood Orange

By: Harriet Tyce

3.86

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Harriet Tyce's debut thriller Blood Orange is a dark and addictive novel for readers who enjoyed Ap… read more

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7. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

By: Ian Rankin

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more

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8. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Lean Fall Stand

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct… read more

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12. A Tidy Ending

By: Joanna Cannon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life—but things a… read more

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13. Early Morning Riser

By: Katherine Heiny

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family Jane f… read more

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"Does Gary have to come too?" "You know as well as I do that Gary doesn't like to be alone after dark," Duncan said. "He says the toilet whispers."

-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser

"Sometimes she though being with her mother was like crossing a desert: long, hard stretches of burning sand that exhausted you, but every once in a while, you happened on a little oasis of kindness."

-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser

"Another woman was accompanied by a man with the most unfortunate facial hair Jane had ever seen—a moustache no thicker than dental floss that started under his nose and continued down either side of …"

-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser

"Jimmy gave a startled yelp. She had put cute little candy cane striped glass cocktail stirrers in everyone's drinks and Jimmy had thought they were real candy canes and bitten his in half. "Goodness.…"

-Katherine Heiny, Early Morning Riser

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14. Mother's Boy

By: Patrick Gale

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more

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15. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

By: Gwen Adshead

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story

By: Polly Morland

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

By: Leah Hazard

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

________________No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers… … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it by Michael Rosen

21. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

By: Michael Rosen

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. The Night She Fell

By: Eileen Merriman

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

‘When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood . . . Her eyes were open, staring sight… read more

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23. I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir

By: Esther Safran Foer

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A riveting memoir of family, the Holocaust, and the search for truth Esther Safran Foer grew up … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death

By: Richard Holloway

4.13

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. Sorrow and Bliss

By: Meg Mason

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more

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"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

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26. When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

By: Lucy Easthope

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She's the one th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency by Kate MacDougall

27. London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency

By: Kate MacDougall

3.72

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The irresistibly charming memoir of a young woman who started her own business as a dog walker for … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Working life seemed to be one enormous con to me, a deception so brilliant that it had reeled in entire generations of wide-eyed graduates bursting with ideas and energy and youthful enthusiasm, only…"

-Kate MacDougall, London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency

Cover of We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) by Richard Osman

28. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

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29. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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30. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.28

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more

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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

Cover of The Cure for Good Intentions by Sophie Harrison

31. The Cure for Good Intentions

By: Sophie Harrison

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. At the age of twenty-eight, Sophie … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

16 Top nonfiction books like The Cure for Good Intentions by Sophie Harrison

Transform Your Habits

And Away...

Bob Mortimer

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

Dawn French

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

The Secret Barrister

3.90

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13 Best audiobook books like London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency by Kate MacDougall

Transform Your Habits

A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way

Lisa J. Edwards , Lisa Collier Cool

3.91

Transform Your Habits

James Herriot's Animal Stories

James Herriot , Lesley Holmes , Jim Wight

3.92

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Take Two

Danielle Hawkins

4.13

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Best Wishes

Richard Glover

3.81

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