7 best-selling memoir books like My Sweet Guillotine by Jayne Tuttle

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My Sweet Guillotine

By: Jayne Tuttle

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine. In th…

"~The actor is always laughing,' he said. 'It is the audience that is crying.'~"

-Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

"~The actor is always laughing,' he said. 'It is the audience that is crying.'~"

-Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

"I wonder how many other thrilling people I have overlooked, thinking I knew who they were."

-Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

"I wonder how many other thrilling people I have overlooked, thinking I knew who they were."

-Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

If you liked the memoir plot in My Sweet Guillotine by Jayne Tuttle , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Chicas muertas

By: Selva Almada

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

"Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los anos ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuan… read more

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2. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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3. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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4. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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5. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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6. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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7. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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9. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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10. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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11. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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12. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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13. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

By: Julia Baird

3.78

Format: 320 pages, ebook

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

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14. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

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15. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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16. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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17. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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18. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

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19. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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20. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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21. Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast

By: Karina May

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Trade Paperback

What if the person getting you through the hardest time in your life is someone you've never met? … read more

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22. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

By: Lauren Elkin

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Wildflowers

By: Peggy Frew

3.29

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more

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"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"

-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers

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24. Heartbake: a bittersweet memoir

By: Charlotte Ree

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish - One Family's Riotous Year in the South of France by Rachael Mogan McIntosh

25. Pardon My French: Food, Faux Pas and Franglish - One Family's Riotous Year in the South of France

By: Rachael Mogan McIntosh

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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27. My Sweet Guillotine

By: Jayne Tuttle

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine. In th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"~The actor is always laughing,' he said. 'It is the audience that is crying.'~"

-Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

"I wonder how many other thrilling people I have overlooked, thinking I knew who they were."

-Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

"This, it seemed, was how things worked in the Arts: once someone gives you money, more people do."

-Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

"God, I hope my head is not off. I hope nobody has to find my head. I hope my family doesn't have to live with that image for the rest of their lives."

-Jayne Tuttle, My Sweet Guillotine

Cover of Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson

28. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot

By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price

4.41

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

'A book for the modern woman, laced with unflinching, glorious honesty.' Zara McDonald and Michelle… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. The Ledge

By: Christian White

4.39

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the … read more

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31. Things Will Calm Down Soon

By: Zoë Foster Blake

3.92

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the hectic world of beauty and business in this highly relatable novel following a talen… read more

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4.13

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3.78

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Amy Thunig

4.41

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Trent Dalton

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Jessica Dettmann

3.72

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Rachael Johns

4.16

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