6 must-read memoir books like After Words by Nina Mitchell

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After Words

By: Nina Mitchell

3.93

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In this darkly comic memoir, a young woman recounts the steps she took to rebuild her sense of self…

If you liked the memoir plot in After Words by Nina Mitchell , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Other Side of the Road

By: Andrea Bartz

3.73

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A couple preparing for the future discovers that their dream house will cost them far more than the… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Bartz's The Other Side of the Road book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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2. Rampage (Bloodlands collection)

By: Harold Schechter

3.77

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1949, things like this just didn’t happen: A quiet New Jersey resident took a morning walk with … read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Rampage (Bloodlands collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Ungirls

By: Lauren Beukes

3.21

Format: 63 pages, Kindle Edition

In the near future, lab-grown sex dolls are the pleasure toy of choice in this disturbing and provo… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Beukes's Ungirls book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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4. Jackrabbit Skin

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.40

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets and rage can get under the skin in an unsettling short story by Ivy Pochoda, award-winning … read more

Similar categories in Ivy Pochoda's Jackrabbit Skin book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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5. Scorpions (Never Tell Collection, #4)

By: Rachel Howzell Hall

3.36

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

A man’s lifetime of secrets and lies. A woman on the hunt for his hidden riches. But there’s a stin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Howzell Hall's Scorpions (Never Tell Collection, #4) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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6. Loam

By: Scott Heim

3.41

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

When three siblings return to their hometown for their estranged father’s funeral, burying the ghos… read more

Similar categories in Scott Heim's Loam book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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7. Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (Bloodlands collection)

By: Harold Schechter

3.62

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender f… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (Bloodlands collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Pirate

By: Harold Schechter

3.60

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbor. Not a soul on board—just blood from cabin to deck. L… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's The Pirate book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Weddings (Inheritance collection)

By: Alexander Chee

3.36

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

For Jack Cho, a fortysomething gay man, being able to marry someone he loves is so unfamiliar it’s … read more

Similar categories in Alexander Chee's The Weddings (Inheritance collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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10. The Lion's Den

By: Anthony Marra

3.47

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

Exposing his father’s transgressions in a tell-all was the ethical, righteous—and profitable—thing … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Marra's The Lion's Den book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
"Finding an empty wheelchair in front of a lion enclosure is like finding a pair of shoes at the ocean’s edge. You might look to your left and your right, but in your heart you know the only way their…"

-Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

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11. Two Henrys (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Kevin Allison

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Coming out can be awkward enough—let alone coming out in the 1970s, in Ohio, as a Catholic schoolbo… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Allison's Two Henrys (This Can't Be Happening collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • biography
  • memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Black Sheep (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Rory Scholl

3.56

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

An irresponsible twentysomething comic and his equally shameless grandmother join forces as proud p… read more

Similar categories in Rory Scholl's Black Sheep (This Can't Be Happening collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Third Man (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Mani Sheriar

3.93

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What would happen if your baby’s birth father represented everything you despised and feared? In th… read more

Similar categories in Mani Sheriar's The Third Man (This Can't Be Happening collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • biography
  • memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Identity Thief (This Can't Be Happening collection)

By: Rachel Rosenthal

3.91

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Who would want to steal the identity of a minimum-wage employee at a children’s museum? In this har… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Rosenthal's Identity Thief (This Can't Be Happening collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Best Girls

By: Min Jin Lee

3.95

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist… read more

Similar categories in Min Jin Lee's The Best Girls book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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16. The Beckoning Fair One

By: Dan Chaon

3.18

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

All teenagers come of age. But in this spellbinding story by the bestselling author of Ill Will, on… read more

Similar categories in Dan Chaon's The Beckoning Fair One book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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17. The Remedy

By: Adam Haslett

2.97

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s a man with a body under siege—and the willingness to proceed with a cure so miraculous all one… read more

Similar categories in Adam Haslett's The Remedy book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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18. Crescent Moon

By: Andrew Barrer

3.97

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

The protected escapees of the blood-farm experiments are free, secure, and set for life. Kind of. B… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Barrer's Crescent Moon book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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19. Bad Therapist (Exposure collection)

By: Evan Wright

3.56

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the biggest scandal in the history of America’s $40 billion drug recovery a predatory Malib… read more

Similar categories in Evan Wright's Bad Therapist (Exposure collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Panic (Bloodlands collection) by Harold Schechter

20. Panic (Bloodlands collection)

By: Harold Schechter

3.54

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

During the Depression, economic anxieties found an outlet in a series of child murders that trigger… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Panic (Bloodlands collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Pied Piper (Bloodlands collection)

By: Harold Schechter

3.70

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

With makeup and an affected Elvis pout, Tucson’s Charlie Schmid was a crude parody of a bad-boy hea… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's The Pied Piper (Bloodlands collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • nonfiction
  • short stories
  • biography
  • audiobook
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22. Anonymous

By: Uzodinma Iweala

3.48

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome back to America! For a man trapped in the Homeland Security machine, passing through custom… read more

Similar categories in Uzodinma Iweala's Anonymous book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of The Brick Slayer (Bloodlands collection) by Harold Schechter

23. The Brick Slayer (Bloodlands collection)

By: Harold Schechter

3.54

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A series of brutal home invasions terrified Los Angeles in 1937. They ended in Chicago a year later… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's The Brick Slayer (Bloodlands collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. King of Dreams (Exposure collection)

By: Christie Thompson

3.52

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of an unforgivable con man. Vulnerable families were his prey. His promise was an… read more

Similar categories in Christie Thompson's King of Dreams (Exposure collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Nightcrawlers (Exposure collection)

By: Rosecrans Baldwin

3.67

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

A revealing ride-along with New England’s teenage volunteer EMTs—boys and girls pulled away from th… read more

Similar categories in Rosecrans Baldwin's Nightcrawlers (Exposure collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • biography
  • memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Ms. Mirage (Exposure collection)

By: Joe Tone

3.77

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

When an investigative journalist’s bold and infamous undercover sting laid bare graft-ridden 1970s … read more

Similar categories in Joe Tone's Ms. Mirage (Exposure collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Two Million Dollar Intern (Exposure collection) by David Gauvey Herbert

27. The Two Million Dollar Intern (Exposure collection)

By: David Gauvey Herbert

3.36

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

He was a cunning Berkeley Law grad who lost his job and hatched a con. Then he got rich and ran fas… read more

Similar categories in David Gauvey Herbert's The Two Million Dollar Intern (Exposure collection) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Young Blood (Young Blood Trilogy, #1) by Andrew Barrer

28. Young Blood (Young Blood Trilogy, #1)

By: Andrew Barrer

3.88

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Youth wasted on the young? Not in this provocative, darkly comic short story of cold-blooded dreams… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Barrer's Young Blood (Young Blood Trilogy, #1) book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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29. Blue Dog

By: Andrew Barrer

3.87

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

Their captivity was traumatizing. And draining. But revenge is in the blood for a group of brave su… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Barrer's Blue Dog book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of Will Williams by Namwali Serpell

30. Will Williams

By: Namwali Serpell

3.30

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

In the modern retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's 'William Wilson' by the author of 'The Old drift,' a y… read more

Similar categories in Namwali Serpell's Will Williams book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of After Words by Nina Mitchell

31. After Words

By: Nina Mitchell

3.93

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In this darkly comic memoir, a young woman recounts the steps she took to rebuild her sense of self… read more

Similar categories in Nina Mitchell's After Words book and Nina Mitchell's After Words

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • autobiography
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • audiobook

31 must-read audiobook books like After Words by Nina Mitchell

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The Other Side of the Road

Andrea Bartz

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Rampage (Bloodlands collection)

Harold Schechter

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Ungirls

Lauren Beukes

3.21

Transform Your Habits

Jackrabbit Skin

Ivy Pochoda

3.40

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15 Top fiction books like Ungirls by Lauren Beukes

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Ungirls

Lauren Beukes

3.21

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Let Her Be

Lisa Unger

3.73

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The Cleaners (Faraway Collection)

Ken Liu

3.48

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The Tangled Woods

Emily Raboteau

2.87

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