15 Top memoir books like Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

By: Jeannie Vanasco

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his…

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1. Coming Clean

By: Kimberly Rae Miller

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stunning memoir about a childhood spent growing up in a family of extreme hoarders and hiding squ… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Rae Miller's Coming Clean book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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2. Book of Mutter

By: Kate Zambreno

2.43

Format: None pages,

Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave… read more

Similar categories in Kate Zambreno's Book of Mutter book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. Whip Smart: A Memoir

By: Melissa Febos

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professi… read more

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4. Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

By: Lauren Slater

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to r… read more

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5. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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6. The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine

By: Sophie Strand

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A deep exploration of the regenerative and magical secrets of sacred masculinity hidden in familiar… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Strand's The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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7. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

Similar categories in Blake Butler's Molly book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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8. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

By: Michelle Bowdler

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Bowdler's Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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9. Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

By: Jennifer S. Hirsch

4.50

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Resear… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer S. Hirsch's Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
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10. Girlhood

By: Melissa Febos

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

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11. Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

By: Sarah Mandel

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Sarah Mandel has done something remarkable here. I found myself weeping, laughing with delight and… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Mandel's Little Earthquakes: A Memoir book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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12. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

By: Anita Hill

4.18

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

"An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural… read more

Similar categories in Anita Hill's Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • feminism
  • adult
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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14. It's Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance

By: Tosha Silver

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed Outrageous Openness, a witty and spirited guide to radically relea… read more

Similar categories in Tosha Silver's It's Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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15. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

Similar categories in Sara Glass's Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. The Story Game

By: Shze-Hui Tjoa

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cos… read more

Similar categories in Shze-Hui Tjoa's The Story Game book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. The Backwards Hand: A Memoir

By: Matt Lee

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotions—as does the monster.Told in lyric… read more

Similar categories in Matt Lee's The Backwards Hand: A Memoir book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

By: Zoë Bossiere

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that c… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Bossiere's Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

By: Rachel Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

By: Jeannie Vanasco

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his… read more

Similar categories in Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
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21. Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

By: Sarah Smarsh

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that establis… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Smarsh's Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class book and Jeannie Vanasco's Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

5 Top adult books like Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

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Coming Clean

Kimberly Rae Miller

3.96

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Blake Butler

3.66

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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

Michelle Bowdler

4.46

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Liars

Sarah Manguso

3.89

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Roxane Gay

4.43

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Antonia Hylton

4.27

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One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

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4.19

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