9 Top autobiography books like Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck

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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

By: Jennifer Lauck

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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Cover of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray

1. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

By: Janisse Ray

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by th… read more

Similar categories in Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Guatemala)

By: Dianna Ortiz , Sister Dianna Ortiz

3.96

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American Ursuline nun working in Guatemala, was abducted and tortured by go… read more

Similar categories in Dianna Ortiz's The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Guatemala) book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Dancing on My Grave by Greg Lawrence, Gelsey Kirkland

3. Dancing on My Grave

By: Greg Lawrence , Gelsey Kirkland

3.86

Format: 363 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The shattering story of a dream which became a heartbreaking nightmare for one of America's most fa… read more

Similar categories in Greg Lawrence's Dancing on My Grave book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness by Tom   Davis

4. A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness

By: Tom Davis

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The story of a loving family coming to grips with its own fragilities, A Legacy of Madnessrelays th… read more

Similar categories in Tom Davis's A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein by Jean Sasson

5. Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein

By: Jean Sasson

3.00

Format: 508 pages,

Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. … read more

Similar categories in Jean Sasson's Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story by Tim Jones, Libby Riddles

6. Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story

By: Tim Jones , Libby Riddles

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Libby Riddles wanted an adventure. At the age of 16 she left home for the snowy frontiers of Alaska… read more

Similar categories in Tim Jones's Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of My Angel by Jamie  Gibson

7. My Angel

By: Jamie Gibson

3.91

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Pregnancy is supposed to be a wonderful time; a special moment that will change your life forever. … read more

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8. Unpolished Gem

By: Alice Pung

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

After Alice Pung's family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose A… read more

Similar categories in Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi

9. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

By: Portia de Rossi

3.68

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional … read more

Similar categories in Portia de Rossi's Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor by Dina Kucera

10. Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

By: Dina Kucera

3.74

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Everything I Never Wanted to Be by Dina Kucera is the true story of a family's battle with alcoholi… read more

Similar categories in Dina Kucera's Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to say, “My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still pr…"

-Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

"I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go on? And then I knew: I wouldn’t go on. And then I realized that it was just going to be too painful…"

-Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

"When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used…"

-Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

"I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny,…"

-Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

Cover of Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck

11. Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

By: Jennifer Lauck

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
Cover of Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp by Stephanie Klein

12. Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp

By: Stephanie Klein

3.44

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Stephanie Klein was an eighth grader with a weight problem. It was a problem at school, where the b… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Klein's Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

13. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

By: Jean Rhys , Diana Athill

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Jean Rhys' unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time i… read more

Similar categories in Jean Rhys's Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

14. The Rules of Inheritance

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

3.70

Format: 336 pages,

Claire Bidwell Smith -- an only child -- was just fourteen years old when both of her parents were … read more

Similar categories in Claire Bidwell Smith's The Rules of Inheritance book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas

15. Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad

By: Firoozeh Dumas

4.13

Format: None pages,

In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Irania… read more

Similar categories in Firoozeh Dumas's Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Letting Go: An Ordinary Woman's Extraordinary Journey of Healing & Transformation by Nancy A. Kaiser

16. Letting Go: An Ordinary Woman's Extraordinary Journey of Healing & Transformation

By: Nancy A. Kaiser

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

LETTING GO is the extraordinary story of a woman who retires with her husband to the mountains of N… read more

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17. fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science

By: Lucia Greenhouse

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lucia Ewing had what looked like an all-American childhood. She lived with her mother, father, sist… read more

Similar categories in Lucia Greenhouse's fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

18. 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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19. Welcome to My Country

By: Lauren Slater

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and … read more

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20. The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle

By: Catherine Lockwood

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This version is now retired and has been republished - you will find the new edition on this page. … read more

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21. She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana

By: Haven Kimmel

1.80

Format: 76 pages,

In this sequel to the top-selling A Girl Named Zippy,the woman rising heroically from the couch is … read more

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Cover of The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness by Natalie Jeanne Champagne

22. The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness

By: Natalie Jeanne Champagne

3.97

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

“Psychiatrists and I; we do not get on well. They have failed to cure me; I am still damaged and it… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Jeanne Champagne's The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

23. A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

By: Jane Wilson-Howarth

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of one of the most colourful countries in the world, A Glimpse of Eternal … read more

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24. The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst

By: Marion Davies

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of Amer… read more

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25. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless

By: Susan Jane Gilman

4.40

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

From the author of "Kiss My Tiara" comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about wome… read more

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26. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq

By: James Ridgeway , Alia Mamdouh , None

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"In August 2003 a young Iraqi blogger began reporting her experiences as a civilian observer in Bag… read more

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27. Black Market Baby: An Adopted Woman's Journey

By: None

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

 Half the U.S. population (140 million Americans) have an adoption in their immediate family. Ther… read more

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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

28. 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 Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

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

29. 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 Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

30. 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 Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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-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 Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir by Angie Cavallari

31. Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir

By: Angie Cavallari

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Trailer Trash tells the story of Angie Cavallari, your typical girl growing up in the 1980s who fin… read more

Similar categories in Angie Cavallari's Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir book and Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Most days Florence would proudly sport a halter top sans a brassiere and briskly march across her yard in crudely trimmed cut-off-jeans —her cheap flip flops flailing off her feet and her sagging bre…"

-Angie Cavallari, Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir

19 Top nonfiction books like Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck

Transform Your Habits

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Janisse Ray

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Guatemala)

Dianna Ortiz , Sister Dianna Ortiz

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Dancing on My Grave

Greg Lawrence , Gelsey Kirkland

3.86

Transform Your Habits

A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness

Tom Davis

3.50

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18 Top nonfiction books like The Third Sunrise: A Memoir of Madness by Natalie Jeanne Champagne

Transform Your Habits

My Life

Golda Meir

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

Irene Spencer

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Scent of God: A Memoir

Beryl Singleton Bissell

4.20

Transform Your Habits

A Three Dog Life

Abigail Thomas

3.68

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