8 Top memoir books like Salt On My Skin by Sarah Kennedy Norquoy

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Salt On My Skin

By: Sarah Kennedy Norquoy

4.36

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

In January 2019, Sarah’s world was shattered by the death of a close friend and her mother’s dement…

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1. The Music Shop

By: Rachel Joyce

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel ab… read more

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"Aretha is soul. You can’t argue with Aretha."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"...the vivid past would not go away. Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Real love was a journey with many pitfalls and complications, and sometimes the place you ended up was not the one you hoped for."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Frank was so busy loving other people he had no room to accommodate the fact that someone might turn around one day and love him back."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

2. I Found My Tribe

By: Ruth Fitzmaurice

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

'One of the year's most arresting, humbling and acute memoirs. It is a catch-in-the-throat, life-af… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. The Possession of Mr Cave

By: Matt Haig

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Terence Cave, intellectual, music-lover and owner of Cave Antiques, has experienced more than his s… read more

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4. The Black Cat Murders (Heathcliff Lennox, #2)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.24

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie with a touch of Wodehouse and a dog of distinction. Who killed … read more

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5. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

By: Sophie Hannah

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more

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6. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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7. Promising Young Women

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more

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8. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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9. Eve of Man (Eve of Man, #1)

By: Giovanna Fletcher

4.08

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED. THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS. THEY CALLED HER EVE . . . … read more

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10. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

By: Richard Coles

3.90

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more

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11. A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.50

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Co… read more

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"Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen"

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

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12. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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13. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

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14. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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15. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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16. Sisterhood

By: Cathy Kelly

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

As the waves crash on to a wild Atlantic beach, Lou is at a crossroads. For the first time ever, ju… read more

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17. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. The Beach Party

By: Nikki Smith

3.70

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Six friends.The holiday of their dreams.Only they know what they did that summer...1989: The tunes … read more

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19. Her Last Holiday

By: C.L. Taylor

3.64

Format: 400 pages, ebook

You come to the retreat to be healed. You don’t expect to die. Two years ago, Fran’s sister Jenn… read more

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20. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

By: Annabel Abbs

3.92

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, … read more

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"God, I think blasphemously, is in a sip of coffee."

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples stil…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of frui…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"But then, one bright morning, I walked out through woods of pine and birch. Foxgloves and wild clematis and briar roses were bursting from the earth. Birdsong shook the air. Swifts snipped at the sky…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

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21. The Island Swimmer

By: Lorraine Kelly

3.98

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

🎧Listening Length = 9 hrs and 16 mins Penned by “a Scottish Maeve Binchy” (Veronica Henry, autho… read more

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22. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

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23. The Lost Letters of Evelyn Wright

By: Clare Swatman

3.89

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Starting over can be hard to do… So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and … read more

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24. The Rockpool Murder (Shell House Detectives, #3)

By: Emylia Hall

4.43

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning Cornish house, a shocking death—can The Shell House Detectives catch a killer hiding in … read more

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25. The Eve Illusion (Eve of Man, #2)

By: Giovanna Fletcher

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The second book in the bestselling Eve of Man trilogy. Eve is the last girl on earth. For the… read more

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26. The Secret Ingredient

By: Sue Heath

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A delicious story that wraps itself around your heart’ Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Lost … read more

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27. The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle

By: Sophie Green

3.84

Format: 492 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1982 in Australia. THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER is a box office hit and Paul Hogan is on the TV.In… read more

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28. 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

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"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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29. The Wildwater Women

By: Ellie Wood

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes the best things in life happen when you dare to get out of your depth. Abby lives and … read more

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30. Swimming with Seals

By: Victoria Whitworth

3.77

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of temporary escape from … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. Salt On My Skin

By: Sarah Kennedy Norquoy

4.36

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

In January 2019, Sarah’s world was shattered by the death of a close friend and her mother’s dement… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

8 Best nonfiction books like Salt On My Skin by Sarah Kennedy Norquoy

I Found My Tribe

Ruth Fitzmaurice

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Katherine May

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Katherine May

3.62

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Transform Your Habits

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

Mark Billingham

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

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