16 Best memoir books like Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life by Joy Mangano

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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

By: Joy Mangano

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “It was an honor to play Joy on the big screen—she’s such a fearless woman, an…

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Cover of Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

1. Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person

By: Shonda Rhimes

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the … read more

Similar categories in Shonda Rhimes's Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
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2. The Magnolia Story

By: Chip Gaines , Joanna Gaines

4.18

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

This eBook includes the full text of the book plus an exclusive additional chapter from Chip and Jo… read more

Similar categories in Chip Gaines's The Magnolia Story book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • business
"I always thought that the “thriving"

-Chip Gaines, The Magnolia Story

"Even locked doors can be unlocked in time."

-Chip Gaines, The Magnolia Story

"That rotten houseboat turned out to be a blessing in disguise."

-Chip Gaines, The Magnolia Story

"I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday."

-Chip Gaines, The Magnolia Story

3. Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff

By: Chip Gaines

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

"National Bestseller--New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, Wall Street Journal" The funny… read more

Similar categories in Chip Gaines's Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

4. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

By: Amy Schumer

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

The Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and star of Inside Amy Schumer and the acclaimed … read more

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5. Pure, White and Deadly: The new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes and other killers

By: None

3.45

Format: None pages,

Sugar. It's killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? In 1972, when Bri… read more

Similar categories in None's Pure, White and Deadly: The new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes and other killers book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

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6. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By: Michelle McNamara

4.12

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer… read more

Similar categories in Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Every obsession needs a room of its own."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"He loses his power when we know his face."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. 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

Similar categories in Demi Moore's Inside Out book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • 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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9. Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today

By: Valerie Bertinelli

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and  New York Times  best… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Bertinelli's Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
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10. 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

Similar categories in Erika Krouse's Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • adult
  • 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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11. ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

By: Penn Holderness

4.32

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Hi, friend! Welcome to the ADHD club. You're here because, like me, you've been diagnosed with a… read more

Similar categories in Penn Holderness's ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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12. "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power

By: Jody Wilson-Raybould

4.14

Format: 304 pages, ebook

THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling … read more

Similar categories in Jody Wilson-Raybould's "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente

13. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

4.39

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Wente's Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life by Sutton Foster

14. Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life

By: Sutton Foster

4.10

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger , funny and intimate stories and ref… read more

Similar categories in Sutton Foster's Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
Cover of Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery by Jon Dorenbos

15. Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery

By: Jon Dorenbos

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Jon Dorenbos is a magical person. Life Is Magic shows how we can all choose happiness in the face … read more

Similar categories in Jon Dorenbos's Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
Cover of How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia

16. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

By: Paul J. Silvia

4.07

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

All academics need to write, but many struggle to finish their dissertations, articles, books, or g… read more

Similar categories in Paul J. Silvia's How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Writing books hurts like no other kind of writing."

-Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

"Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text"

-Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

"Writing a book is like injecting anabolic steroids: it if doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger and hairier."

-Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

"The goal of text generation is to throw confused, wide-eyed words on a page; the goal of text revision is to scrub the rods clean so that they sound nice and can go out in public."

-Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

Cover of Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable by Jamie Kern Lima

17. Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

By: Jamie Kern Lima

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Believe IT, Jamie Kern Lima, founder of IT Cosmetics, shares the wild but true story of how a on… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Kern Lima's Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • business
  • self help
"Your gut is always right!"

-Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

"What you focus on magnifies."

-Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

"Gratitude can change everything."

-Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

"Be confident in your authentic gifts."

-Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

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18. I Have Something to Tell You

By: Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential … read more

Similar categories in Chasten Glezman Buttigieg's I Have Something to Tell You book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"That gay expereince in Tulsa is just as gay and valid as other, more visible experience in the media, and attempting to police anyone’s gayness sets a dangerous precedent. It equates identity with pr…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

"I was reaching my hand over the person in front of me to shake hands with Obama when a random guy barreled into me from behind. I turned to look at what had happened, and in the meantime, I felt a ha…"

-Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, I Have Something to Tell You

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19. Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life

By: Gisele Bündchen

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Gisele Bündchen's journey began in southern Brazil, where she grew up sharing a bedroom with her fi… read more

Similar categories in Gisele Bündchen's Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"Other people’s words have almost nothing to do with you and almost everything to do with them."

-Gisele Bündchen, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life

"If you spend time comparing yourself with someone else, the only thing you’re doing is setting yourself up for disappointment and failure. You won’t ever feel good enough. There are seven and half bi…"

-Gisele Bündchen, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life

"In the end, the longest and most important relationship any of us will ever have is with ourselves. That’s why I believe self-awareness is so important. We all need to learn to become comfortable wit…"

-Gisele Bündchen, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life

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20. This Indian Kid: A Native American Memoir

By: Eddie Chuculate

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boy… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Chuculate's This Indian Kid: A Native American Memoir book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life by Joy Mangano

21. Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

By: Joy Mangano

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “It was an honor to play Joy on the big screen—she’s such a fearless woman, an… read more

Similar categories in Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life book and Joy Mangano's Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • business
  • self help

8 Best adult books like Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life by Joy Mangano

Transform Your Habits

The Magnolia Story

Chip Gaines , Joanna Gaines

4.18

Transform Your Habits

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Inside Out

Demi Moore

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

Erika Krouse

3.76

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8 Top adult books like I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Glezman Buttigieg

Transform Your Habits

The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Talking to My Angels

Melissa Etheridge

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Pete Buttigieg

4.20

Transform Your Habits

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

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