10 must-read memoir books like Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler

Cover of Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler

Ophelia Speaks

By: Sara Shandler

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen Sara Shandler was 16, she read psychologist Mary Pipher's Reviving Op…

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Cover of The Million Dollar Mermaid by Esther  Williams, Digby Diehl

1. The Million Dollar Mermaid

By: Esther Williams , Digby Diehl

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

During Hollywood's heyday, big studios battled over the next box-office attraction. While Gene Kell… read more

Similar categories in Esther Williams's The Million Dollar Mermaid book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Ophelia Speaks

By: Sara Shandler

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen Sara Shandler was 16, she read psychologist Mary Pipher's Reviving Op… read more

Similar categories in Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • parenting
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • sociology
Cover of Reversible Skirt by Laura McHale Holland

3. Reversible Skirt

By: Laura McHale Holland

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Laura McHale Holland's world turns upside down when her mother committs suicide, leaving three daug… read more

Similar categories in Laura McHale Holland's Reversible Skirt book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal

4. A Paper Life

By: Tatum O'Neal

3.68

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

At the age of ten, Tatum O'Neal was at the pinnacle of her Hollywood career, starring as a precocio… read more

Similar categories in Tatum O'Neal's A Paper Life book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention

By: Susan Rose Blauner

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An international epidemic, suicide has touched the lives of nearly half of all Americans, yet is ra… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rose Blauner's How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? by Jen Lancaster

6. Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

By: Jen Lancaster

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's crac… read more

Similar categories in Jen Lancaster's Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. A Three Dog Life

By: Abigail Thomas

3.68

Format: 346 pages,

When Abigail Thomas's husband was hit by a car, it destroyed his short-term memory and consigned hi… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Thomas's A Three Dog Life book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson

8. The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

By: G. Willow Wilson

4.12

Format: None pages,

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with … read more

Similar categories in G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger

9. The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

By: Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing ext… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Paisner's The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

10. The Book of Margery Kempe

By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more

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11. Half-Breed

By: Maria Campbell

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Metis woman's struggle to come to… read more

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12. Speaking Truth to Power

By: Anita Hill

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private … read more

Similar categories in Anita Hill's Speaking Truth to Power book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

13. Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Sojourner Truth , None

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, pr… read more

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14. Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

By: Leymah Gbowee , Carol Mithers

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they le… read more

Similar categories in Leymah Gbowee's Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

15. Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress

By: Debra Ginsberg

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A veteran waitress dishes up a spicy and robust account of life as it really exists behind kitchen … read more

Similar categories in Debra Ginsberg's Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

16. The Kiss

By: Kathryn Harrison

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we've never been before. We meet where no one will rec… read more

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17. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Korshak's Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

18. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

19. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaud's Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

20. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Cabo Nikolov's Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path by Beth Koritz

21. Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path

By: Beth Koritz

3.99

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

How many times have you taken a look at your life and thought these words? "Things have got to chan… read more

Similar categories in Beth Koritz's Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path book and Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

13 Top nonfiction books like Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler

Transform Your Habits

The Million Dollar Mermaid

Esther Williams , Digby Diehl

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Ophelia Speaks

Sara Shandler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Reversible Skirt

Laura McHale Holland

4.03

Transform Your Habits

A Paper Life

Tatum O'Neal

3.68

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Transform Your Habits

Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand (Women Writers in Translation)

George Sand , Thelma Jurgrau , Walter D. Gray

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Ophelia Speaks

Sara Shandler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Maria

Maria Augusta von Trapp

3.84

Transform Your Habits

How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention

Susan Rose Blauner

3.85

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