13 must-read nonfiction books like I'm Supposed to Make a Difference: A Memoir About Overcoming Trauma and Abuse by Kevin Vought

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I'm Supposed to Make a Difference: A Memoir About Overcoming Trauma and Abuse

By: Kevin Vought

3.69

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Very few people know about the childhood trauma Kevin endured long ago in western New York. At firs…

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1. Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets

By: Gregg Olsen

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. Th… read more

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2. The Prince of Tides

By: Pat Conroy

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding … read more

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3. The Orphan Collector

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

4.24

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia… read more

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"May God forgive you for what you’ve done."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

"Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

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4. Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

By: Lisa Suzanne Nugent

4.17

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

For many, madness is something read about in books or seen on TV—something scary, foreign, and impo… read more

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  • memoir
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5. Running From The Mirror

By: Howard Shulman

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined."

-Howard Shulman, Running From The Mirror

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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. The Alone Time

By: Elle Marr

3.58

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a fa… read more

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8. The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

3.92

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Fact, fiction, and urban legend blend in this haunting story about a young woman mistakenly impriso… read more

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"Chết tiệt, động vật còn được đối xử tốt hơn cư dân ở đây"

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

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9. Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

By: Erika Krouse

3.76

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I felt a little bit like crying and instead ate more cheese."

-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

"Nothing's more comforting than the sound of rain when you're not in it."

-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

"When people are ashamed, they cover their faces. The face is where shame lives."

-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

"People always rely on the incompetent idiot defense—it doesn’t hurt them. Look at Iran-Contra. They named an airport after that guy."

-Erika Krouse, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

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10. My Firefly

By: Maggie Kirton

4.07

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

“Living is what’s supposed to happen after you survive. It’s life in ‘post-survival’ that defines t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. The Phone Call

By: A.J. Campbell

4.11

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes the guilty are innocent Joey Clarke was just fifteen when his dad died, leaving him to r… read more

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12. If Only: Living in the Shadows of the Moors Murders

By: Terry West

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1964 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey left home to go to the fair. Her older brother, Te… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Secrets on Saulter Road: Discovering Hope and Forgiveness in the Wake of My Toxic Upbringing

By: Joan Kendall

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing is ever as it seems...Secrets on Saulter Road is a story of growth, resilience, and hope. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Baby Doll: My Mother, My Secrets

By: Charlotte Rossler

4.31

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

If you like real-life comeback stories, international adventure, and lessons learned walking throug… read more

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15. Beat: My Journey Through Abuse and the Holdeman Mennonites

By: Hannah Prosser

4.39

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

I was born to an abusive doctor named Ahaz in Kentucky, homeschooled and not even allowed to have f… read more

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16. 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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17. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story

By: Daniella Dechristopher

4.01

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Rise: A Memoir

By: Rise Myers

4.22

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

An Ability to Rise Risé was named after the opera star Risë Stevens. It was as if her mother knew t… read more

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  • memoir
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19. The Annals of a Country Doctor

By: Carl Matlock

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a country doctor in solo practice in the decade … read more

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  • memoir
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20. 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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21. Wrong Family: For Every Secret, There Is A Family

By: Charisse Dahlke

3.61

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Charisse always felt like she was born into the wrong family and at fourteen finds out that she has… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. Charlie's Secret: Inspired by a True Story (Samantha Mallon, #1)

By: C.L. Heckman

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

After years of torture, a mentally and physically abused daughter finally stands up to her abusers,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Boy on a Shelf

By: J.T. Daniels

4.49

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by a true story, J T Daniels exposes the horrific life of Peter. His family lived a normal… read more

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24. Who Says You Can't Go Home?: A Memoir

By: B. Loren

4.16

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Being an outsider is tough. Being an outsider in your own home and not knowing why is soul-crushin… read more

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  • memoir
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25. Silent Cries of the Children

By: Redonda Stover

3.30

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a true story about the abuse, neglect, and survival of five small children, what they had t… read more

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26. Phyllis - The Invisible Child

By: Phyllis Barnes - Lawlor

3.82

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

Chronicling the life of a broken child, we begin before her birth, looking at the circumstances of … read more

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27. unBroken

By: J.T. Daniels

4.38

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

This book contains explicit sexual violence. Excerpt with The little girl crouched in the tangled … read more

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28. Wildflower: An Abducted Life: A Survivor's Story

By: Nancy Jean Walker

4.30

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

Nancy Walker, a child abuse, rape, human trafficking, and domestic violence survivor, escaped—only … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"You're never too old or too damaged to make a difference. Nancy Walker"

-Nancy Jean Walker, Wildflower: An Abducted Life: A Survivor's Story

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29. The Moonflowers

By: Abigail Rose-Marie

4.39

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

In a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generati… read more

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30. I'm Supposed to Make a Difference: A Memoir About Overcoming Trauma and Abuse

By: Kevin Vought

3.69

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Very few people know about the childhood trauma Kevin endured long ago in western New York. At firs… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Answer Is No: A Short Story by Fredrik Backman

31. The Answer Is No: A Short Story

By: Fredrik Backman

4.13

Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities … read more

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Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

Lisa Suzanne Nugent

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Running From The Mirror

Howard Shulman

4.45

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Displaced: A Memoir

Esther Wiebe

4.30

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Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

Erika Krouse

3.76

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Madness and Me: My Search for Sanity

Lisa Suzanne Nugent

4.17

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Howard Shulman

4.45

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Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

Teresa Van Woy

4.56

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Esther Wiebe

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