13 Top nonfiction books like A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All by Melanie Brooks

Cover of A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All by Melanie    Brooks

A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All

By: Melanie Brooks

4.59

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ “A profound and riveting journey through shame and grief, A Hard Silence is, quite simply, un…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All by Melanie Brooks , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit

1. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

By: Ari Shavit

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Die große Geschichte IsraelsDer renommierte Journalist Ari Shavit sieht Israel in einer halt- und a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"As the state became everything, the individual became marginalized. As it marched toward the future, Israel erased the past. There was no place for the previous landscape, no place for previous ident…"

-Ari Shavit, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Cover of Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki

2. Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

By: Jamie Glowacki

3.90

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

From potty-training expert and social worker Jamie Glowacki, who’s already helped over half a milli… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

By: Juliane Koepcke

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

The author was 17 years old when she survived an airplane explosion. Her survival is unexplainable … read more

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4. Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales

By: None

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Audio CD

No one gets inside the head of the murderer--or makes it a more thrilling read--than the late, grea… read more

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5. The Liars' Club

By: Mary Karr

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

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6. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

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"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

Cover of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

7. 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
  • memoir
Cover of The Caretaker by Ron Rash

8. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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Cover of The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey

9. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

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Cover of Family Family by Laurie Frankel

10. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

Cover of The Wives: A Memoir by Simone Gorrindo

11. The Wives: A Memoir

By: Simone Gorrindo

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19) by C.S. Harris

12. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

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Cover of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

13. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson

14. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

By: Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

15. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

Cover of In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

16. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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17. The Resting Place

By: Camilla Sten

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A spine-chilling, propulsive psychological suspense from international sensation Camilla Sten. T… read more

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Cover of Dog Treats and Death (Heywood Hounds #1) by Carly Winter

18. Dog Treats and Death (Heywood Hounds #1)

By: Carly Winter

4.27

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s had a troubled past… but is he a killer?When Gina Dunner’s brother, Vic, is accused of murderi… read more

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19. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

Cover of The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays by Athena Dixon

20. The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

By: Athena Dixon

3.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

I am overwhelmingly lonely. And I cannot believe that doesn’t matter and I will not believe there a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

21. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature by Jennifer     Lang

22. Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature

By: Jennifer Lang

4.64

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ “For anyone who has ever loved deeply and been willing to take risks for the sake of love.” R… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West

23. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Just East of Nowhere by Scot Lehigh

24. Just East of Nowhere

By: Scot Lehigh

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A Gripping Story of Doubt, Damnation, and Discovery set in a struggling corner of Downeast Maine. J… read more

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Cover of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

25. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

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Cover of The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared by Casey Mulligan Walsh

26. The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared

By: Casey Mulligan Walsh

4.98

Format: 323 pages, ebook

Casey needs a family: the joys and sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs—what Zorba… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All by Melanie    Brooks

27. A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All

By: Melanie Brooks

4.59

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ “A profound and riveting journey through shame and grief, A Hard Silence is, quite simply, un… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect by Catherine  Shields

28. The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect

By: Catherine Shields

4.75

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ “Brave and heartbreaking... will resonate with all parents.” Jen Pastiloff, author of On Bein… read more

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  • medical
  • memoir
Cover of Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams, and Broken Genes by Jessica Fein

29. Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams, and Broken Genes

By: Jessica Fein

4.84

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

"A master class in how to be a person."  --Joanna Rakoff, bestselling author of My Salinger Year "A… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of When the Ocean Flies by Heather G. Marshall

30. When the Ocean Flies

By: Heather G. Marshall

4.52

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

★★★★★ “This book brought me to tears and a greater understanding of my own possibilities.” Terresa … read more

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Cover of Chicken Dinner News by Jeff Billington

31. Chicken Dinner News

By: Jeff Billington

4.04

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Ryan Shipley wouldn’t have recognized his grandfather if they were the only two people in a room. S… read more

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15 Top memoir books like A Hard Silence: One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All by Melanie Brooks

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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

3.94

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Wives: A Memoir

Simone Gorrindo

3.79

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Last House

Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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Leaving

Roxana Robinson

3.87

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