11 Top biography memoir books like To Be Honest: A Memoir by Michael Leviton

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To Be Honest: A Memoir

By: Michael Leviton

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir about one man’s strange upbringing in a family fanatically devoted to honesty   Raised in …

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1. Ethel and Ernest

By: Raymond Briggs

4.19

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Poignant, funny, and utterly original, Ethel & Ernest is Raymond Briggs's loving depiction of his p… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

2. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

By: Julie Gregory

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet ano… read more

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3. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

By: Laura Kaplan

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to … read more

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4. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

By: Anil Seth

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more

Similar categories in Anil Seth's Being You: A New Science of Consciousness book and Michael Leviton's To Be Honest: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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5. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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6. The Debutante

By: Jon Ronson

3.41

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad … read more

Similar categories in Jon Ronson's The Debutante book and Michael Leviton's To Be Honest: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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7. Ghost Roast

By: Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossib… read more

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8. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

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9. Norse Mythology, Vol. 1

By: Neil Gaiman

4.11

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman and Eisner Award-winning comics legend P. Craig Ru… read more

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, Vol. 1 book and Michael Leviton's To Be Honest: A Memoir

  • adult
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10. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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11. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

Similar categories in Uché Blackstock's Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine book and Michael Leviton's To Be Honest: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

By: Annalee Newitz

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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13. My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

By: Georgia Pritchett

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Georgia Pritchett is a singularly hilarious person. Her book is a delightful and perfect reflectio… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Pritchett's My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety book and Michael Leviton's To Be Honest: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

By: Rachel Bloom

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Mindy Kaling, Ali Wong, and Amy Poehler, a collection of hilarious personal essays, … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Bloom's I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are book and Michael Leviton's To Be Honest: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

By: C.A. Fletcher

4.15

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've n… read more

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  • audiobook
"I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think"

-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

"No one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective."

-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

"Forewarned is not forearmed. Sometimes you spend so much effort looking for the track that you know is there, that you miss the other one that you didn’t know about."

-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

"I realise how much time I used to spend with my head in a book, filling the emptiness of my world and letting the pages distract from the darkness in the shadows behind me."

-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

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16. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

By: Tom Mustill

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"

-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

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17. The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It

By: John Tierney

3.88

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

"The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."—Marti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"If you remind yourself that it usually takes four good things to overcome one bad thing, you'll know not to trust your immediate responses to bad events."

-John Tierney, The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It

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18. The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West

By: Carrot Quinn

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to trav… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

By: Keith O'Brien

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.41

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

By: Christy Harrison

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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22. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was told she had typhoid fever. Right away, as I still do today, I looked up the disease in medical books and read all about it."

-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

"Although my mother didn't know anything about science, she had a great influence on me as well. In particular, she had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest form of unde…"

-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doin…"

-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

"Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it compl…"

-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

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23. Three Girls from Bronzeville

By: Dawn Turner

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and h… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. The Ugly Cry

By: Danielle Henderson

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who wanted to start a new family with her drug-addicted, abu… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were."

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

"Danielle Elizabeth Henderson! Get your ass over here!' she shouted. Grandma always used my full name when she was angry. None of the shoppers around her turned a head or lifted a finger to help; in t…"

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

"My grandparents got creative to make space for three kids in their two-bedroom home. They took one of the bedrooms, my mom and aunt shared the other, and my uncle Bobby slept on the screened-in porch…"

-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

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25. Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence

By: Gavin Francis

4.07

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

“An essential book for our times, full of wisdom, compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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26. Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living

By: Robert A. Jensen

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair

By: Lucy Knisley

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Library Binding

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language by Emma  Byrne

28. Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language

By: Emma Byrne

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Entertaining and thought-provoking…Byrne’s enthusiasm for her esoteric subject is contagious, damn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"We should keep at it. Swearing is a powerful instrument, socially and emotionally. If women and men want to communicate as equals, we need to be equals in the ways in which we are allowed to express …"

-Emma Byrne, Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language

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29. Somna

By: Becky Cloonan

4.18

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

BECKY CLOONAN and TULA LOTAY - both writing and drawing a graphic novel together for the FIRST TIME… read more

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  • adult
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30. To Be Honest: A Memoir

By: Michael Leviton

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir about one man’s strange upbringing in a family fanatically devoted to honesty   Raised in … read more

Similar categories in Michael Leviton's To Be Honest: A Memoir book and Michael Leviton's To Be Honest: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • psychology
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups

By: Tracey Camilleri

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How many people does the ideal team contain? How do groups bond, earn trust and forge shared identi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

9 Best adult books like To Be Honest: A Memoir by Michael Leviton

Transform Your Habits

It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Norse Mythology, Vol. 1

Neil Gaiman

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Three Girls from Bronzeville

Dawn Turner

4.29

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20 Top audiobook books like My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Bedtime Stories for Stressed Adults: Sleep Meditation Stories to Melt Stress and Fall Asleep Fast Every Night

Mindfulness Habits Team

2.91

Transform Your Habits

Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Nora McInerny

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Molly Shannon

4.13

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