15 must-read memoir books like Dying to be Thin by Nikki Grahame

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Dying to be Thin

By: Nikki Grahame

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubbly, highly strung, and hugely ente…

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Cover of Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher

1. Madness: A Bipolar Life

By: Marya Hornbacher

4.03

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights W… read more

Similar categories in Marya Hornbacher's Madness: A Bipolar Life book and Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love."

-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

"I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life."

-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

"My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there."

-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

"When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you."

-Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

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2. What I Lost

By: Alexandra Ballard

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and he… read more

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  • mental health
Cover of Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi

3. 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 Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of Dying to be Thin by Nikki Grahame

4. Dying to be Thin

By: Nikki Grahame

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubbly, highly strung, and hugely ente… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin book and Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

5. Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

3.82

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking book and Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

Cover of Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin

6. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

By: Cory Franklin

3.57

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more

Similar categories in Cory Franklin's Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases book and Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

7. An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia

By: Emma Woolf

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

A true story of falling in love and overcoming anorexia. At the age of 32, after ten years of hidin… read more

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8. Scrappy Little Nobody

By: Anna Kendrick

4.03

Format: None pages,

A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of… read more

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9. Elena Vanishing

By: Clare B. Dunkle , Elena Dunkle

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fe… read more

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10. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

By: Marya Hornbacher

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Thr… read more

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11. Wintergirls

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

3.55

Format: 320 pages,

In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, L… read more

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12. How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia

By: Kelsey Osgood

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details of their ca… read more

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13. Size Zero: My Life as a Disappearing Model

By: Victoire Dauxerre

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

A memoir of a brief career as a top model - and the brutally honest account of what goes on behind … read more

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14. Paris: The Memoir

By: Paris Hilton

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length: 8 hours and 22 minutes ***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From the… read more

Similar categories in Paris Hilton's Paris: The Memoir book and Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to someone else."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

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15. Out of the Corner

By: Jennifer Grey

3.81

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. Hear Me Out

By: Sarah Harding

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"I can't rewrite history; all I can do is be honest and wear my heart on my sleeve. It's really the… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of How to Live When You Could Be Dead by Deborah    James

17. How to Live When You Could Be Dead

By: Deborah James

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER'Deborah James has captured the heart of the nation' - The Duke and… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman

18. Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

By: Benjamin Bikman

4.12

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diab… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Bikman's Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It book and Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • nonfiction
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19. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. The Last Word

By: Amy Price

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Katie Price’s life has long been lived in the public eye, documented both by her own books, reality… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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21. The Babysitter

By: Phoebe Morgan

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I loved it, those twists!’ B A Paris‘This had me at the title. Fast-moving. Addictive. And all too… read more

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Cover of Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper

22. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

By: Daisy May Cooper

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Glouce… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by John Glatt

23. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family

By: John Glatt

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Eat, Pray, #FML by Gabrielle Stone

24. Eat, Pray, #FML

By: Gabrielle Stone

3.54

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

A year and a half into our marriage, I found out my husband had been having an affair with a ninete… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. The Weight of Beautiful

By: Jackie Goldschneider

4.30

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey , bravely chronicles her decades-lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie by Julia Haart

26. Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie

By: Julia Haart

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraord… read more

Similar categories in Julia Haart's Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie book and Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. Like Father, Like Son (Ali Cross, #2)

By: James Patterson

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The #1 kids' detective series of the decade! Ali Cross is back in the gripping sequel to James Patt… read more

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Cover of Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison

28. Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

By: Christy Harrison

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that p… read more

Similar categories in Christy Harrison's Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating book and Nikki Grahame's Dying to be Thin

  • nonfiction
  • mental health
Cover of Silent Child by Toni Maguire

29. Silent Child

By: Toni Maguire

4.46

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Unlike people with carefree previous lives, I packed away my past. There are some memories labelled… read more

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30. One Little Mistake

By: Lucinda Berry

3.47

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From the best-selling author of The Secrets of Us and The Best of Friends comes a novella of deceit… read more

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Cover of My Account: The official autobiography by Coleen Rooney

31. My Account: The official autobiography

By: Coleen Rooney

4.14

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

You may think you know everything about the seemingly dazzling life of Coleen Rooney.From growing u… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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