13 Best nonfiction books like Raising A Thief by Paul Podolsky

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Raising A Thief

By: Paul Podolsky

4.31

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

A true story about raising an unusually challenging child. Unfolding over nearly 20 years, Raising …

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1. Call Me Tuesday

By: Leigh Byrne

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

At eight-years-old, Tuesday Storm's childhood is forever lost when tragedy sends her family spirali… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. The Strangler

By: William Landay

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Boston, 1963. A city on edge. On street corners, newsboys hawk the shocking headline: KENNEDY IS DE… read more

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3. The Sisters of Glass Ferry

By: Kim Michele Richardson

3.75

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Spanning several decades and written in an authentic voice both lyrical and wise, The Sisters of Gl… read more

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4. Detached: Surviving Reactive Attachment Disorder

By: None

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

DETACHED! SURVIVING REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER is the true story of a young boy who never "attach… read more

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5. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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6. Displaced: A Memoir

By: Esther Wiebe

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Displaced is a gripping true story of a young girl and her young siblings’ escape from a conservat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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8. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

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"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

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9. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

By: Svetlana Alexievich

4.49

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

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10. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

4.51

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more

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12. Beyond the Moonlit Sea

By: Julianne MacLean

4.15

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of These Tangled Vines comes a gripping novel about one woman’s search … read more

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13. Sisters Behaving Badly

By: Maddie Please

4.38

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Sisters Kitty and Jenny haven’t spoken since a very disappointing Carvery lunch. Kitty, sixty-two, … read more

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"You see, that's one of the rubbish things about being older: you're still there taking up space, needing stuff, wanting attention, but you gradually become invisible and unimportant. It's very annoyi…"

-Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly

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14. The Last One Home

By: Victoria Helen Stone

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp novel of suspense about the lies families tell—and those we choose to believe—by the … read more

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15. A Familiar Sight (Dr. Gretchen White, #1)

By: Brianna Labuskes

4.12

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by… read more

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16. Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met.” — Steven Levitt, co-aut… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Fly Girl: A Memoir

By: Ann Hood

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of gla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Wolf at the Table

By: Adam Rapp

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a … read more

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19. What Can't Be Seen (Dr. Gretchen White, #2)

By: Brianna Labuskes

4.32

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant psychologist faces the secrets and lies of her own dark past in a shocking novel of sus… read more

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20. Irreparable: Three Lives. Two Deaths. One Story that Has to be Told.

By: Mark Gerardot

4.03

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Mark and Jennair Gerardot had been married nearly 25 years when Mark met someone who changed everyt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Say Her Name

By: Dreda Say Mitchell

4.04

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

In this chilling thriller from the bestselling authors of Spare Room, one woman just wants the trut… read more

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22. A Deadly Influence (Abby Mullen Thrillers, #1)

By: Mike Omer

4.23

Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition

Lieutenant Abby Mullen is no stranger to crisis. As the hostage negotiation instructor for the NYPD… read more

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23. My Every Breath: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope

By: Anna Maynard

4.50

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

The compelling story of a woman's lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis and her astonishing resilien… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. Clarity: A Memoir

By: Diana Estill

4.08

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

“Estill writes with the wit and grit of Mary Karr and Jeanette Walls.” – BookLife Prize At a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. The Community

By: N. Jamiyla Chisholm

3.63

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood

By: Stephen Mills

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir "An unparalleled achievement , a work of shatt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. An Only Child and Her Sister

By: Casey Maxwell Clair

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

AN ONLY CHILD AND HER SISTER is a compelling true life story. Two sisters born to the same parents … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. i am jess: a memoir

By: Jessica Fahl

4.28

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

"Readers who have been through similar situations and relationships will feel a lot of common groun… read more

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29. Don't Call Me Mum

By: Maria Frankland

4.51

Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sarah saw the thin blue line on her pregnancy test, she was filled with joy - but little did s… read more

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30. A Killer of Influence (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers #20)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.76

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

What price would you pay for fame?Following a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social me… read more

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Cover of Raising A Thief by Paul Podolsky

31. Raising A Thief

By: Paul Podolsky

4.31

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

A true story about raising an unusually challenging child. Unfolding over nearly 20 years, Raising … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Call Me Tuesday

Leigh Byrne

4.25

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Esther Wiebe

4.30

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Svetlana Alexievich

4.49

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J. Dana Trent

3.65

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Yiyun Li

3.75

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3.79

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4.54

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4.15

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