5 must-read memoir books like Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries by Sarah Gristwood

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Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

By: Sarah Gristwood

4.30

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to disc…

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1. Herc

By: Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favouri… read more

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2. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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3. Under the Bridge

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

*Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!* “A swift,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

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5. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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6. A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

By: Katherine Howe

3.73

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one youn… read more

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  • womens
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7. Fair Rosaline

By: Natasha Solomons

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capule… read more

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8. Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

By: Elizabeth Boyle

3.98

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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9. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

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10. Killingly

By: Katharine Beutner

3.39

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves … read more

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11. Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce

By: Nuala O'Connor

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse,… read more

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12. Well, This Is Exhausting

By: Sophia Benoit

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this “charming and often laugh-out-loud … read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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13. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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14. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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15. The Wood at Midwinter

By: Susanna Clarke

3.73

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more

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  • short stories
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16. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

By: Olivia Williams

3.61

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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18. Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

By: Sarah Gristwood

4.30

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to disc… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • anthologies
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
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19. What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. The Scandal of the Century

By: Lisa Hilton

3.25

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents’ home in Surrey to se… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Rick Stein at Home: Recipes, Memories and Stories from a Food Lover's Kitchen

By: Rick Stein

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of Rick Stein's all-time favorite recipes and essays that celebrate the rhyth… read more

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  • nonfiction

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3.86

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3.98

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3.44

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Deanna Raybourn

4.19

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Katherine Arden

4.02

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Shubnum Khan

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