12 Top biography memoir books like Anti Diva by Carole Pope

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Anti Diva

By: Carole Pope

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Known for their sexual lyrics and provocative act, Carole Pope and Rough Trade ushered Canada from …

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1. A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more

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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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2. Amy and Isabelle

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her stunning first novel Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from … read more

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3. Life Itself

By: Roger Ebert

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago … read more

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  • biography memoir

4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

By: Dave Eggers

4.04

Format: 538 pages,

'When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow ex… read more

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5. All of Me

By: Michael Posner , None

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this revealing autobiography, Canada's first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole s… read more

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6. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

7. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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8. My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

4.20

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

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9. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • biography memoir
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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10. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

By: Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following  New York Times  bestselling author and ac… read more

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  • biography memoir
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11. Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews

3.62

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more

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"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

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12. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

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  • biography memoir
Cover of Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume

13. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

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Cover of I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter by David Chariandy

14. I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

By: David Chariandy

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dear… read more

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  • biography memoir
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15. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

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"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

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16. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

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17. Karma: My Autobiography

By: Boy George

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
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18. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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  • biography memoir
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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19. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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20. A Life Without Water (A Life Without #1)

By: Marci Bolden

3.96

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Healing can take a lifetime... Carol Denman divorced her husband over twenty years ago and has n… read more

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Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

21. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • biography memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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22. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

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23. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

By: Craig Davidson

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "S… read more

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"You always fall hardest the first time, don’t you? There’s no bottom to it."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Our boy owes us nothing. No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that's just the way it goes."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don’t allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

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24. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

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Cover of I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir by Maurice Vellekoop

25. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

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  • biography memoir
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26. The Man Who Lived Underground

By: Richard Wright

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Fred Daniels, un jeune homme noir, se fait arrêter par la police à la fin d’une journée de travail,… read more

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"Jesus, take me to your blessed home above and wrap me in the bosom of thy love..."

-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground

"This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me."

-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground

"Yes, the only being who could possibly gaze down upon such a hopeless spectacle and encompass its meaninglessness would have to be a god. That was it! Maybe men had invented gods to feel what they co…"

-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground

"What was this sense of guilt so seemingly innate, so easy to come by, to think, to feel, so verily physical? It seemed that when one felt this guilt one was but retracing in one’s living a faint patt…"

-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground

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27. The Damages

By: Genevieve Scott

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more

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Cover of Anti Diva by Carole Pope

28. Anti Diva

By: Carole Pope

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Known for their sexual lyrics and provocative act, Carole Pope and Rough Trade ushered Canada from … read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
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29. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)

By: Louise Penny

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more

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Cover of Sad Old Faggot: A Novel by Sky Gilbert

30. Sad Old Faggot: A Novel

By: Sky Gilbert

3.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A daring foray into the groundbreaking genre of autobiographical fictionSad Old Faggot is the absor… read more

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31. Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley

By: Sherrill Grace

4.39

Format: 540 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwri… read more

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9 Best music books like Karma: My Autobiography by Boy George

Transform Your Habits

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

Bernie Taupin

3.58

Transform Your Habits

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Karma: My Autobiography

Boy George

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Mary Gabriel

4.03

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