13 best-selling memoir books like The Consequences of Love by Gavanndra Hodge

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The Consequences of Love

By: Gavanndra Hodge

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Gavanndra Hodge was seven years old her world was a precarious place. Her father was a hairdre…

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1. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother

By: Rachel Cusk

4.57

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother book and Gavanndra Hodge's The Consequences of Love

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Dying: A Memoir

By: Cory Taylor

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Cory Taylor is one of Australia's celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booke… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

By: Viv Albertine

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"It’s true the good die young."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"… maybe you can tell how much pain someone is in by watching them laugh."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

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4. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

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  • audiobook
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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5. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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6. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

By: Hadley Freeman

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"

-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

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7. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Small Pleasures

By: Clare Chambers

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe… read more

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  • audiobook
"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

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11. My Thoughts Exactly

By: Lily Allen

3.97

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. The Split

By: Sharon J. Bolton

3.84

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer--whic… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Boys Don't Cry

By: Fíona Scarlett

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their … read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Saltwater

By: Jessica Andrews

3.79

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nis… read more

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  • audiobook
"I want it and I do not want it. I want to be visible and I want to be invisible, or perhaps I want to be visible to some people and not to others. It seems unfair that I can't choose."

-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

"I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of polit…"

-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

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16. All The Young Men

By: Ruth Coker Burks

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

Cover of Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions by Tracy King

17. Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions

By: Tracy King

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in 1980s Birmingham, England, a piercing memoir about the liberating power of a scientific view… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. Notes To Self

By: Emilie Pine

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"He triat ser feliç. Aquesta felicitat no és perfecta ni exempta de dolor. A dins hi porta un dol. Però justament per això és més intensa."

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"I like that I have ten things on the go, all at once. I like that I'm always planning for the next thing. I like that I bring a high energy to my life, that I see it as a challenge. I like that my fa…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"I am fearful and hopeful and shameful. I worry that I am empty, or that I am full of the wrong things. I worry that I am disappearing, eroding, failing. I do not know what to do with all these feelin…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

"For three decades I have lived within a silence that declares periods too embarrassing, too unwanted, too female to talk about out loud. I have done this for so long that I almost no longer notice it…"

-Emilie Pine, Notes To Self

Cover of The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well by Mark Schatzker

19. The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well

By: Mark Schatzker

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The international bestseller from award-winning writer Mark Schatzker that reveals how our dysfunct… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Alan Bennett, Diaries 1980-1990

By: Alan Bennett

4.27

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Alan Bennett's gentle, wry observations of life have made him one of the country's best-loved and m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. The Consequences of Love

By: Gavanndra Hodge

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Gavanndra Hodge was seven years old her world was a precarious place. Her father was a hairdre… read more

Similar categories in Gavanndra Hodge's The Consequences of Love book and Gavanndra Hodge's The Consequences of Love

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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Kirstin Innes

3.72

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Fern Brady

4.48

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Hadley Freeman

3.92

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I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

Rebecca Wait

4.03

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Claire Keegan

4.18

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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4.16

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