19 must-read nonfiction books like The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman

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The Possibility of Everything

By: Hope Edelman

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's sea…

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1. When Rabbit Howls

By: Truddi Chase , None

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifyin… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters."

-Truddi Chase, When Rabbit Howls

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2. Living History

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

3.76

Format: 567 pages, Paperback

The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller—With a New Afterword Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hun… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Fail to plan, plan to fail."

-Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History

"What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question..."

-Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History

"In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all."

-Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History

"Rumors become the story du jour. And while our past experiences may have seemed like ancient history to us, every detail of our lives was being sifted and combed as if we were some sort of archaeolog…"

-Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History

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3. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

By: Rachel Reiland

3.95

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and fe… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"            Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of c…"

-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

"I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotiona…"

-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

"You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether i…"

-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

"(...) istnieje pewna ciekawa teoria grzechu pierworodnego, o której chciałem ci opowiedzieć (...) – niektórzy teologowie uważają, że w przypadku Adama i Ewy nie chodziło o zjedzenie zakazanego jabłka…"

-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

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4. Keith, A: Three Came Home

By: Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you."

-Agnes Newton Keith, Keith, A: Three Came Home

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5. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

By: Dorothy Allison

4.12

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time."

-Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

"I ran because if I had not, I would have died. No one told me that you take your world with you, that running becomes a habit."

-Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

"Women. Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really girls anymore. Grown up, wounded, hurt and terrible. Pained and desperate. Mean and angry. Hungry…"

-Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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6. A Lotus Grows in the Mud

By: Goldie Hawn , Wendy Holden

4.14

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events th… read more

Similar categories in Goldie Hawn's A Lotus Grows in the Mud book and Hope Edelman's The Possibility of Everything

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia Butterfly Hill

7. The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods

By: Julia Butterfly Hill

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Letters of a Woman Homesteader

By: Elinore Pruitt Stewart

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of"(Christian Science Monitor), thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. 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

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman

10. The Possibility of Everything

By: Hope Edelman

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's sea… read more

Similar categories in Hope Edelman's The Possibility of Everything book and Hope Edelman's The Possibility of Everything

  • memoir
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • family
  • audiobook
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11. Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

By: Dolly Parton

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

In concerts, movies and on TV, Dolly Parton's singing and honest-to-God personality has charmed mil… read more

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

12. 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 Hope Edelman's The Possibility of Everything

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss

By: Marianne Leone

3.15

Format: None pages,

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

14. Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

By: Nuala O'Faolain

3.81

Format: 263 pages,

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15. Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage

By: None

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Berkeley peace activist Sophia Raday never imagined she would fall in love with an Oakland police o… read more

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16. Find Me

By: Rosie O'Donnell

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

Part memoir, part mystery, a compelling tale that will break readers' hearts even as it heals them. read more

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17. Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

By: Martha Manning

3.97

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

This is the memoir of an ordinary woman—a mother, a daughter, a psychologist, a wife—who tells the … read more

Similar categories in Martha Manning's Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface book and Hope Edelman's The Possibility of Everything

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it i…"

-Martha Manning, Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

18. Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

By: Antjie Krog , Charlayne Hunter-Gault , Luke Mitchell

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind… read more

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19. Loveyoubye: Holding Fast, Letting Go, And Then There's The Dog

By: Rossandra White

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

When Rossandra White walks into her Laguna Beach home one day to find that her husband of twenty-fi… read more

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20. The Girl with the White Flag: A Spellbinding Account of Love and Courage in Wartime Okinawa

By: Tomiko Higa , Dorothy Britton

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New York Newsdaycalled this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan "one of the saddest and yet most… read more

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21. On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet

By: None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Describes the adventures of five Victorian women, English, American, and French, who explored Tibet… read more

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22. The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book

By: Wendy Welch

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

A book about losing your place, finding your purpose, and immersing yourself in what holds communit… read more

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23. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

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"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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24. 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

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"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

25. 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

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

26. 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

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  • 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

27. 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

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  • 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

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28. The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

By: Robert Reid

4.30

Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early 16th century in the city of Mora, capital of Kermin, a cruel new ruler has come to pow… read more

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"Raimund, we must promise each other that if one of us leaves Mora it must be both. We must leave together."

-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

"At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince."

-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

"Rafe smiled again. “I think Aleana can teach you how to work in a team and maybe you can teach her to be less reckless."

-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

"Audun, there is something I must now explain to you. You are the illegitimate son of Alberon, who now calls himself Emperor of the North."

-Robert Reid, The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)

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29. Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment

By: Sumangali Morhall

3.98

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Has your life ever flashed before you? Sumangali Morhall chased everything Western society taught h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • spirituality
"There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars."

-Sumangali Morhall, Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment

"Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening"

-Sumangali Morhall, Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment

"When first discovering a night sky, the eyes may pick out a few tiny stars. Waiting and watching reveals thousands, until it seems there is yet more light than empty blackness. So my life has been, a…"

-Sumangali Morhall, Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment

"I remembered the taste of good Italian coffee in my London flat, brewed at the expense of time and a good deal of mess, compared to the sort that came out of machines in the office at the press of a …"

-Sumangali Morhall, Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment

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30. The Red Sea Bride

By: Sylvia Fowler

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At a language school on the Pacific Ocean, 18-year-old Sylvia falls in love with a devastating youn… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Sasha and Olga

By: Eva Maria Chapman

3.98

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

As the British Historian, Norman Davies siad, 'No nation lost more people in the 20th century than … read more

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When Rabbit Howls

Truddi Chase , None

4.04

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

3.76

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Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

Rachel Reiland

3.95

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Keith, A: Three Came Home

Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

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

George Sand , Thelma Jurgrau , Walter D. Gray

3.94

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Ophelia Speaks

Sara Shandler

3.84

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Maria Augusta von Trapp

3.84

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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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