10 best-selling biography books like Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja, Karen Musalo

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Do They Hear You When You Cry

By: Fauziya Kassindja , Karen Musalo

4.12

Format: 529 pages, Paperback

For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practic…

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1. A Writer's Diary

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal r… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."

-Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

"Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing."

-Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

"I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head."

-Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

"Övgüler yerindeydi de, yerinde olmayan sinirlerimdi."

-Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

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2. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

By: Le Ly Hayslip , Jay Wurts

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Ear… read more

Similar categories in Le Ly Hayslip's When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking."

-Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

"In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one…"

-Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

"For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our day…"

-Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

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3. Pledged - Secret Life Of Sororities

By: Alexandra Robbins

3.22

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

This New York Times bestseller is a fast-paced, behind-the-scenes book that blows the lid off the i… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Robbins's Pledged - Secret Life Of Sororities book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

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

4. 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 Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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5. A Rose for Sergei

By: K. Kidd

4.06

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

“Do we really know what we are getting ourselves into…” Sergei Kourdakov jumped from a Russian t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
"Sergei, what are you checking for?"

-K. Kidd, A Rose for Sergei

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6. 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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7. Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

By: Anne Lamott

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

From the New York Timesbestselling author of Hallelujah Anywayand Help, Thanks, Wow, a spiritual an… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Do They Hear You When You Cry

By: Fauziya Kassindja , Karen Musalo

4.12

Format: 529 pages, Paperback

For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practic… read more

Similar categories in Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • feminism
  • togo
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library Series) by Isabella Lucy Bird, Daniel J. Boorstin

9. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library Series)

By: Isabella Lucy Bird , Daniel J. Boorstin

3.67

Format: 244 pages,

A cosmopolitan, middle-aged Englishwoman touring the Rocky Mountains in 1873, Isabella Bird had emb… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Amelia's Destiny (Amelia #2)

By: D.G. Torrens

3.78

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

Amelia's Destiny continues where Amelia's Story left off. I recommend you read book one first. Amel… read more

Similar categories in D.G. Torrens's Amelia's Destiny (Amelia #2) book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation

By: Abigail Carter

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Like A Year of Magical Thinking, this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Carter's The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

By: Lillian Hellman , Wendy Wasserstein

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the … read more

Similar categories in Lillian Hellman's An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books) book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"[France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant."

-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

"As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain."

-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

"I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort."

-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

"Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good."

-Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

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13. 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 Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

14. 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

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15. Slings & Arrows

By: Julie Elizabeth Powell

3.96

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expects to lose a child but when it happens what can we do? In the sea of grief that seizes… read more

Similar categories in Julie Elizabeth Powell's Slings & Arrows book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • nonfiction

16. Beautiful Affliction

By: Lene Fogelberg

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lene Fogelberg is dying--she is sure of it--but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her… 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

17. 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 Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

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

18. 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 Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"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

19. 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 Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"#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 Blockade: The Diary of an Austrian Middle-Class Woman, 1914-1924 by Anna Eisenmenger

20. Blockade: The Diary of an Austrian Middle-Class Woman, 1914-1924

By: Anna Eisenmenger

3.67

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

English, Pages 98. Reprinted in 2013 with the help of original edition published long back. This bo… read more

Similar categories in Anna Eisenmenger's Blockade: The Diary of an Austrian Middle-Class Woman, 1914-1924 book and Fauziya Kassindja's Do They Hear You When You Cry

  • history
Cover of Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin by Amber Rose Washington

21. Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin

By: Amber Rose Washington

4.01

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a warm, funny, educational, and very human story... a reminder that we are all just humans … read more

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7 best-selling history books like Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja, Karen Musalo

Transform Your Habits

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

Le Ly Hayslip , Jay Wurts

4.12

Transform Your Habits

A Rose for Sergei

K. Kidd

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Do They Hear You When You Cry

Fauziya Kassindja , Karen Musalo

4.12

Transform Your Habits

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library Series)

Isabella Lucy Bird , Daniel J. Boorstin

3.67

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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

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A Three Dog Life

Abigail Thomas

3.68

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