14 must-read memoir books like Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom by Jake Keiser

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Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

By: Jake Keiser

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A candid and heartwarming memoir of reinvention about a city girl who trades her career and her hee…

If you liked the memoir plot in Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom by Jake Keiser , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Filthy Rich: The true story behind the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal by John Connolly, James  Patterson, Tim Malloy

1. Filthy Rich: The true story behind the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal

By: John Connolly , James Patterson , Tim Malloy

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer. … read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's Filthy Rich: The true story behind the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of A Summer in Sonoma by Robyn Carr

2. A Summer in Sonoma

By: Robyn Carr

4.15

Format: 408 pages, Mass Market Paperback

They've been best friends since seventh grade. But this summer, on the threshold of thirty, four wo… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Carr's A Summer in Sonoma book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • contemporary
Cover of Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan

3. Food: A Love Story

By: Jim Gaffigan

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why:… read more

Similar categories in Jim Gaffigan's Food: A Love Story book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I'm a fan of relaxing, and when i get tired of relaxing I like to do nothing."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money to waste."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? That's interesting, because it's going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your tooth an …"

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

4. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard fro… read more

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Cover of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

5. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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6. Lucky Dogs

By: Helen Schulman

3.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devast… read more

Similar categories in Helen Schulman's Lucky Dogs book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • contemporary
Cover of Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen

7. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

By: Susan Magsamen

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more

Similar categories in Susan Magsamen's Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

8. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Coral Cafe (The Coral Cottage at Summer Beach, #2) by Jan Moran

9. Coral Cafe (The Coral Cottage at Summer Beach, #2)

By: Jan Moran

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

When Marina Moore decides to expand her farmers market and pop-up dinner business, the next step is… read more

Similar categories in Jan Moran's Coral Cafe (The Coral Cottage at Summer Beach, #2) book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • contemporary
Cover of The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard by Michael   Callahan

10. The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard

By: Michael Callahan

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tantalizing novel of two women bound by blood but divided by a long-buried secret, and the island… read more

Similar categories in Michael Callahan's The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

Cover of Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski

11. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Zaleski's Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Cover of The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch

12. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

Similar categories in Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren

13. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

By: Paulina Bren

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous resid… read more

Similar categories in Paulina Bren's The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"[Negli anni '30] Molti ritenevano anche, sebbene il Women's Bureau del governo avesse ripetutamente contraddetto tale convinzione, che le donne lavoravano per comprarsi il superfluo, rubando i posti …"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

"Nel 1932, ventisei Stati avevano decretato che fosse illegale per le donne sposate avere un lavoro, e negli Stati in cui non era obbligatorio lasciare il lavoro al momento delle nozze era comunque ne…"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

"[Negli anni ‘50] Le regole erano chiare, e le attese elevatissime: le donne dovevano essere vergini ma non bacchettone; dovevano fare l'università, dedicarsi a un certo tipo di carriera e poi rinunci…"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

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14. Sylvia's Second Act

By: Hillary Yablon

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore… read more

Similar categories in Hillary Yablon's Sylvia's Second Act book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • contemporary
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15. The Talented Miss Farwell

By: Emily Gray Tedrowe

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss R… read more

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Cover of This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir by Jacqueline Winspear

16. This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.96

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the fa… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Memories appear in flashes of light, in short scenes, in reflections that can make us laugh or bring us to tears."

-Jacqueline Winspear, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir

Cover of Expanding the Borders of Zion: A Latter-day Saint Perspective on LGBTQ Inclusion by Charlie   Bird

17. Expanding the Borders of Zion: A Latter-day Saint Perspective on LGBTQ Inclusion

By: Charlie Bird

4.77

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Many people want to offer love and support to their LGBTQ friends and neighbors but aren't sure how… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Bird's Expanding the Borders of Zion: A Latter-day Saint Perspective on LGBTQ Inclusion book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Illegally Yours: A Memoir by Rafael Agustin

18. Illegally Yours: A Memoir

By: Rafael Agustin

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin ( Jane The Virgin ) a… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Agustin's Illegally Yours: A Memoir book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Beholder

By: Ryan La Sala

3.92

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - An… read more

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"People look into mirrors with such unguarded curiosity, never thinking that someone else is looking back."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"We mustn’t light our way with the flame of fear. It’ll make the shadows of even small things into impossible monsters."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"This book isn’t dedicated to you, Susan, but I know you’ll read it one day. So I just wanted to let you know you still owe me the rest of my security deposit. Hope those books of yours are going well!"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A…"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

Cover of Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

20. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay , a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir by Cory Leadbeater

21. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

By: Cory Leadbeater

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more

Similar categories in Cory Leadbeater's The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

22. How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's How to Age Disgracefully book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • contemporary
"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

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23. The Runaway Wife

By: Dee MacDonald

4.03

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

‘OMG!… It made me howl with laughter and it made me sob my heart out… I absolutely adored every sin… read more

Similar categories in Dee MacDonald's The Runaway Wife book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • contemporary
Cover of Social Engagement by Avery Carpenter Forrey

24. Social Engagement

By: Avery Carpenter Forrey

2.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bitingly sharp and darkly humorous debut novel exploring millennial wedding culture, class, and r… read more

Similar categories in Avery Carpenter Forrey's Social Engagement book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • contemporary
Cover of Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

25. Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other

By: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

3.31

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT #1 TORONTO STAR and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERSophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a d… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna  Johnston

26. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • contemporary
Cover of Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey

27. Peggy

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more

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Cover of The Party Crasher: How Jesus Disrupts Politics as Usual and Redeems Our Partisan Divide by Joshua Ryan Butler

28. The Party Crasher: How Jesus Disrupts Politics as Usual and Redeems Our Partisan Divide

By: Joshua Ryan Butler

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Discover America’s four political religions and why Jesus is crashing them all! The political divi… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Ryan Butler's The Party Crasher: How Jesus Disrupts Politics as Usual and Redeems Our Partisan Divide book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
Cover of Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom by Jake Keiser

29. Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

By: Jake Keiser

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A candid and heartwarming memoir of reinvention about a city girl who trades her career and her hee… read more

Similar categories in Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Lifeform by Jenny Slate

30. Lifeform

By: Jenny Slate

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Litt… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Slate's Lifeform book and Jake Keiser's Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci

31. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

9 Top contemporary books like Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom by Jake Keiser

Transform Your Habits

A Summer in Sonoma

Robyn Carr

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Lucky Dogs

Helen Schulman

3.23

Transform Your Habits

Coral Cafe (The Coral Cottage at Summer Beach, #2)

Jan Moran

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Sylvia's Second Act

Hillary Yablon

4.00

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Transform Your Habits

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me

Russell M. Nelson

4.87

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

An Inconvenient Letter

Julie Wright

3.88

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