23 best-selling biography books like Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son by Madeleine Dean

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Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son

By: Madeleine Dean

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A congresswoman and her son reveal how he survived a ten-year battle with opioid abuse—and what the…

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1. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

By: Theresa Brown

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Timescolumnist Theresa Br… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. A Wedding in December

By: Anita Shreve

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding--a reu… read more

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3. A Gathering of Old Men

By: Ernest J. Gaines

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Paperback

Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Menis a powerful depiction… read more

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4. The Golden Doves

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Naz… read more

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5. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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8. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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9. Inside Out

By: Demi Moore

3.91

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year. F… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"We all suffer, and we all triumph, and we all get to choose how we hold both."

-Demi Moore, Inside Out

"I belong. Here. In myself. In this house. On this planet. I'm in my mid-50s now, I've outlived both of my parents, I know that what I walked through was a lot, especially coming from where I came fro…"

-Demi Moore, Inside Out

"They divorce and years later the dad mellow as men tend to when they get older. You know the kind. They're assholes when their young then they get sweet when they age. It's the mother who seems bitte…"

-Demi Moore, Inside Out

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10. Chaos Theory

By: Nic Stone

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more

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11. Bravey

By: Alexi Pappas

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

"Renaissance runner" (New York Times) Alexi Pappas--Olympic athlete, actress, filmmaker and writer-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Headed to the moon not now but soon."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

"A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once."

-Alexi Pappas, Bravey

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12. The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder

By: John Glatt

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the true story of a Col… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder book and Madeleine Dean's Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

By: Sandeep Jauhar

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more

Similar categories in Sandeep Jauhar's My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's book and Madeleine Dean's Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

By: Laura McKowen

4.33

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

"A masterpiece. The truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s goin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Maybe it’s helpful to linger there for a minute, in the terrible and the necessary. To start to see them as the same. Maybe in this way, pain is not such a problem"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"The typical question is, Is this bad enough for me to have to change? The question we should be asking is, Is this good enough for me to stay the same? And the real question underneath it all is, Am …"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"The truest story - the one that will always be truest - is that I am a human being, being human. Sometimes, I am my best self. Sometimes, not so much. But goddamn, I am trying to do better. I am alwa…"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"Lying and withholding is the cheapest, easiest way to control others. You control their perception, control their response to you, control who you need them to be, In telling the truth, I was surrend…"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

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15. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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16. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

By: Gracie Gold

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more

Similar categories in Gracie Gold's Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out book and Madeleine Dean's Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

By: Kendra James

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an ad… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

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  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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19. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

By: Kristi Coulter

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler

21. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir (A Bestselling Biography) by Pat Cunnane

22. West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir (A Bestselling Biography)

By: Pat Cunnane

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The West Wing meets The Office in this fresh and funny exclusive look into President Barack Obama’s… read more

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  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing

By: Kathleen Buhle

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Buhle's If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing book and Madeleine Dean's Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son

  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. A Most Clever Girl

By: Stephanie Marie Thornton

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A Novel of an American Spy A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incred… read more

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"Sinners make the best saints."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"Nothing good lasts...Don't trust anyone who claims otherwise."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"No good ever comes from underestimating people...Take it from someone who knows."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"Let this be my first lesson to you: words matter. Use them carefully, like bullets.)"

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

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26. By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words

By: April Simpkins

4.18

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography by RoseMarie Terenzio

27. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide by Rachel Zimmerman

28. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

By: Rachel Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

29. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son by Madeleine Dean

30. Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son

By: Madeleine Dean

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A congresswoman and her son reveal how he survived a ten-year battle with opioid abuse—and what the… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Dean's Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son book and Madeleine Dean's Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son

  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love by Abby Maslin

31. Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love

By: Abby Maslin

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Abby Maslin shares an inspiring story of resilience and commitment in a deeply affecting new memoir… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"To survive we must simply live. To love, we must love hard."

-Abby Maslin, Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love

"Everyone it didn't happen to seems to have a bold opinion about what I ought to take away from this terrible event."

-Abby Maslin, Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love

"Neither TC nor I would choose to spend our lives living in fear of those who might hurt us. Fear doesn't keep people safe, we've always seemed to implicitly agree. It keeps them small and scared."

-Abby Maslin, Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love

5 must-read politics books like Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son by Madeleine Dean

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4.60

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Kamala Harris

4.01

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West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir (A Bestselling Biography)

Pat Cunnane

3.73

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Kathleen Buhle

4.19

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