8 best-selling biography memoir books like Against Medical Advice by James Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman

Cover of Against Medical Advice by James  Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman

Against Medical Advice

By: James Patterson , Hal Friedman , Cory Friedman

3.98

Format: None pages,

This is the heart-rending drama of one family's courage, heartbreak, sacrifice, and triumph in conf…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Against Medical Advice by James Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice by Maureen McCormick

1. Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice

By: Maureen McCormick

4.00

Format: None pages,

Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all--… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto

2. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

By: John Colapinto

2.90

Format: 96 pages,

In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical trea… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Invasion of Privacy

By: Christopher Reich

2.89

Format: None pages,

One woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her against a new gener… read more

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Cover of An Irish Country Girl (Irish Country #4) by Patrick Taylor

4. An Irish Country Girl (Irish Country #4)

By: Patrick Taylor

3.98

Format: 269 pages,

Readers of Patrick Taylor's books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America by Les Standiford, Joe Matthews

5. Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

By: Les Standiford , Joe Matthews

3.66

Format: 146 pages,

Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Miss… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Not Without Hope by Nick Schuyler, Jere Longman

6. Not Without Hope

By: Nick Schuyler , Jere Longman

4.80

Format: None pages,

A former college football star shares the harrowing story of the headline-making boating accident t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Against Medical Advice by James  Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman

7. Against Medical Advice

By: James Patterson , Hal Friedman , Cory Friedman

3.98

Format: None pages,

This is the heart-rending drama of one family's courage, heartbreak, sacrifice, and triumph in conf… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Against Medical Advice book and James Patterson's Against Medical Advice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder (Pizza Lovers, #2) by Chris Cavender

8. Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder (Pizza Lovers, #2)

By: Chris Cavender

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For once, it seems, no one is trying to pin a murder on Eleanor Swift, owner of the scrumptious piz… read more

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Cover of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders

9. Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

By: Lisa Sanders

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School … read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home by Amy Dickinson

10. Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home

By: Amy Dickinson

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice column, Amy Dickinson reveals much of the insp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Name Is Mahtob: The Story that Began the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter Continues by Mahtob Mahmoody

11. My Name Is Mahtob: The Story that Began the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter Continues

By: Mahtob Mahmoody

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the story of an extraordinary young woman's triumph over life-crushing trauma to build a li… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

12. Growing Up Amish

By: Ira Wagler

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Ira Wagler was born in 1961, the ninth of a Canadian Amish couple's eleven children. At seventeen, … read more

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13. If at Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny

By: Zach Anner

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with … read more

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14. Eternal on the Water

By: Joseph Monninger

4.28

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

From the day Cobb and Mary meet kayaking on Maine's Allagash River and fall deeply in love, the two… read more

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15. First Love

By: James Patterson , Emily Raymond

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary portrait of true love that will move anyone who has a first love story of their ow… read more

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16. The Butler: A Witness to History

By: Wil Haygood

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing in… read more

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17. The Sins of the Mother

By: Danielle Steel

3.83

Format: None pages,

Every woman makes choices. And no one has made more difficult choices than Olivia Grayson. The enor… read more

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18. Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story: The Heartbreaking True Story of My Adopted Daughter and Her Desperate Search for a Loving Home

By: Cathy Glass

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer C… read more

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19. Alex: The Life of a Child

By: Frank Deford

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Alexandra Deford, a precious and precocious girl, was just eight years old when she died in 1980 fo… read more

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20. Heart in the Right Place

By: Carolyn Jourdan

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Heart in the Right Place, an alternately laugh-out-loud-funny and cry-your-eyes-out-serious memoir … read more

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21. Wedding Shop

By: Rachel Hauck

4.34

Format: 168 pages,

Two women separated by decades. Both set out to help others find their dreams when their own have c… read more

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22. He Sees You When You're Sleeping

By: Mary Higgins Clark , Carol Higgins Clark

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

The latest Christmas novella from bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol Hig… read more

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23. Finding Jake

By: Bryan Reardon

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching yet ultimately uplifting story of psychological suspense in which a parent is for… read more

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Cover of Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M.M. Blume

24. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

By: Lesley M.M. Blume

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter un… read more

Similar categories in Lesley M.M. Blume's Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World book and James Patterson's Against Medical Advice

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"History is history,"

-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

"Hiroshima was a decimated “death laboratory"

-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

"War is ethically totally different from peace,"

-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

"I covered it up, and John Hersey uncovered it,"

-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

Cover of The Girl in Cell 49B (Emily Calby, #2) by Dorian Box

25. The Girl in Cell 49B (Emily Calby, #2)

By: Dorian Box

4.56

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

“A groundbreaking, nail-biting and wondrous legal thriller.” — BestThrillers “Standout sequel fr… read more

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Cover of The American Queen by Vanessa Miller

26. The American Queen

By: Vanessa Miller

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton

27. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks

28. Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

By: Oliver Sacks

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Gratitude andOn the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sa… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
"I want a real book made of paper with print―a book with heft, with a bookish smell, as books have had for the last 550 years, a book that I can slip into my pocket or keep with its fellows on my book…"

-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

"But there is a fundamental difference between reading and being read to. When one reads actively, whether using the eyes or a finger, one is free to skip ahead or back, to reread, to ponder or daydre…"

-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

"Come scrittore, trovo che i giardini siano essenziali per il processo creativo: come medico, ogni volta che è possibile, porto i miei pazienti in un giardino. Tutti abbiamo avuto l'esperienza di vaga…"

-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

"I had no idea that this was happening―not only in the Einstein library but in college and public libraries all over the country. I was horrified when I visited the library recently and found the shel…"

-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

Cover of Illegally Yours: A Memoir by Rafael Agustin

29. Illegally Yours: A Memoir

By: Rafael Agustin

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin ( Jane The Virgin ) a… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Agustin's Illegally Yours: A Memoir book and James Patterson's Against Medical Advice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience by Allison Pataki

30. Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

By: Allison Pataki

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that … read more

Similar categories in Allison Pataki's Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience book and James Patterson's Against Medical Advice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

31. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

11 must-read audiobook books like Against Medical Advice by James Patterson, Hal Friedman, Cory Friedman

Transform Your Habits

An Irish Country Girl (Irish Country #4)

Patrick Taylor

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

Les Standiford , Joe Matthews

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Against Medical Advice

James Patterson , Hal Friedman , Cory Friedman

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

Lisa Sanders

4.15

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11 Best nonfiction books like Not Without Hope by Nick Schuyler, Jere Longman

Transform Your Habits

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

Kevin Flynn , Jim Dwyer

4.29

Transform Your Habits

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Jennifer Armstrong , Irene Gut Opdyke

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

Jennifer Niven

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Not Without Hope

Nick Schuyler , Jere Longman

4.80

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