13 best-selling nonfiction books like Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott

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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

By: Anne Lamott

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

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Cover of And So It Goes: Adventures in Television by Linda Ellerbee

1. And So It Goes: Adventures in Television

By: Linda Ellerbee

3.74

Format: 306 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Examines the internal operations of television news and answers many basic journalistic questions b… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of The Journals of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott, Joel Myerson

2. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

By: Louisa May Alcott , Joel Myerson

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A companion volume to The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott, the journals are here published in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. The Scent of God: A Memoir

By: Beryl Singleton Bissell

4.20

Format: 32 pages,

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. Where You Left Me

By: Jennifer Gardner Trulson

4.48

Format: 448 pages,

Lucky--that's how Jennifer would describe herself. She had a successful law career, met the love of… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman

5. Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family

By: Catherine Newman

4.10

Format: None pages,

To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy,a week… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • parenting
  • memoir
Cover of Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman

6. Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir

By: Lillian Faderman

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman was the only child of an uneducated and unmarried immigrant Jewish w… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. Whatever Happened To Romance?: A Modern Girls Quest For True Love, One Learning Experience At A Time

By: K.T. Edwards , Jeff Byers

4.33

Format: None pages, ebook

Whatever Happened To Romance? chronicles the real life dating mishaps of author K.T. Edwards as she… read more

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Cover of Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott

8. Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

By: Anne Lamott

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

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  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays

9. A View of the Lake: Living the Dream on Lake Superior

By: Beryl Singleton Bissell

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

A View of the Lake chronicles the joys and lessons in finding one's place amid the North Woods and … read more

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10. 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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11. 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

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

12. Ghost No More

By: CeeCee James

4.03

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

How do you keep fighting for hope, when everything around you is tearing hope down? Five year old C… read more

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13. In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

By: Lee Woodruff , Bob Woodruff

3.75

Format: 320 pages,

In one of the most anticipated books of the year, Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, Bob Woodruf… read more

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14. 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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15. My Story

By: Ingrid Bergman

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

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16. And a Voice to Sing With

By: Joan Baez

4.21

Format: None pages,

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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 Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

  • 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

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  • 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

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

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

20. 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
"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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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 Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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And So It Goes: Adventures in Television

Linda Ellerbee

3.74

Transform Your Habits

The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott , Joel Myerson

4.07

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The Scent of God: A Memoir

Beryl Singleton Bissell

4.20

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Where You Left Me

Jennifer Gardner Trulson

4.48

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My Life

Golda Meir

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

Irene Spencer

4.33

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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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