8 must-read biography memoir books like The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers by Marcia Gay Harden

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The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers

By: Marcia Gay Harden

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this lyrical and deeply moving memoir, one of America’s most revered actresses weaves stories of…

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1. The Bookseller

By: Cynthia Swanson

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The Booksellerfollows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alte… read more

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  • audiobook
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2. French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew

By: Peter Mayle

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. Tales of Burning Love

By: Louise Erdrich

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In her boldest and most darkly humorous novel yet, award-winning, critically acclaimed and bestsell… read more

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4. Faithful

By: Alice Hoffman

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tra… read more

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5. Lab Girl

By: Hope Jahren

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers,… read more

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6. Where They Found Her

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing … read more

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7. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

By: Jenny Lawson

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris--Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her lit… read more

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8. March

By: Geraldine Brooks

4.23

Format: None pages,

Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. From the author of the acclaimed YEAR OF WONDERS, an… read more

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9. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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10. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

By: Sonali Dev

3.68

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family d… read more

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  • audiobook
"her bottle cap popping vagina"

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"Funny how photographs become the form your memories take."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"No one is so special that they can’t exert themselves a bit for others."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"There was something about Paris that made you feel you could forget who you were."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

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11. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

By: Laura Dern

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As actors, Dern and Ladd have spent decades peeling back layers to re… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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12. Somebody's Daughter

By: Ashley C. Ford

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm j…"

-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter

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13. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

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14. Tourist Season

By: Brenda Novak

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A summer by the ocean promises new beginnings—until old secrets resurface. Ismay Chalmers is rea… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

By: Galit Atlas

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

By: Melissa Gilbert

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilari… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"Everyone across America had the same idea at the same time. Chickens became the toilet paper of the spring."

-Melissa Gilbert, Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

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17. The Mutual Friend

By: Carter Bays

3.69

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

"This is a rare thing: an original, intelligent novel that's not just a perfect summer beach read, … read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Waiting for the Monsoon

By: Rod Nordland

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air, the New York Times's legendary war correspondent deli… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter

By: Suzy Hopkins

4.24

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A mother’s advice to her daughter—a guide to daily living, both practical and sublime—with full-col… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"You are numb. It's time to put your home in order. Give everything a place. Make it make sense. Make your room the exact opposite of the randomness of existence, the mercilessness of mortality. Life'…"

-Suzy Hopkins, What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter

"The earth would continue to spin, and I'd be left in a world without her. My map would be gone. The ground beneath my feet would be gone. Who could I call to ask how to cook a potato? Who would liste…"

-Suzy Hopkins, What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter

"Day 8: Go Rollerblading Your job today is not to think. Just be. When you're Rollerblading, you can't think in the conventional way, unless you're a really good Rollerblader. If you're the kind of Ro…"

-Suzy Hopkins, What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter

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20. The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers

By: Marcia Gay Harden

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this lyrical and deeply moving memoir, one of America’s most revered actresses weaves stories of… read more

Similar categories in Marcia Gay Harden's The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers book and Marcia Gay Harden's The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • japan
  • audiobook
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21. 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
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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3.68

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Alessandra Olanow

3.96

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