12 best-selling biography books like Will Love For Crumbs by Jonna Ivin

Cover of Will Love For Crumbs by Jonna Ivin

Will Love For Crumbs

By: Jonna Ivin

3.62

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs o…

"There is absolutely no reason to be a dick, just because you have one."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Quietly trying to manifest what you want doesn’t work, being a bitch does."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Funny how a wink from a city guy can come across as cheesy or condescending, but a wink from a southern boy will send shivers up a girl’s spine."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always been to react and adapt to what was decided by other people, by outside circumstances, or in my mind, by God. My voice went unheard in my own life."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

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Cover of Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

1. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

By: Anne Fadiman

4.10

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's c… read more

Similar categories in Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader book and Jonna Ivin's Will Love For Crumbs

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"I have never been able to resist a book about books."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Cover of Keith, A: Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith

2. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • 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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3. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

By: Karen Armstrong

3.94

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of A History of God delivers the grippi… read more

Similar categories in Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness book and Jonna Ivin's Will Love For Crumbs

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I had failed to make a gift of myself to God."

-Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

"Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment."

-Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

"If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made …"

-Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

"I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page bega…"

-Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

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 Jonna Ivin's Will Love For Crumbs

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer

5. Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

By: Irene Spencer

4.33

Format: None pages,

IRENE SPENCER grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family- the thirteenth of thirty-one children- so … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. Gorillas in the Mist

By: Dian Fossey

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, Gorillas in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. Raising Demons

By: Shirley Jackson

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Life Among the Savages charmed thousands with its insightful wit and contrasting warmth. In this se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Will Love For Crumbs by Jonna Ivin

8. Will Love For Crumbs

By: Jonna Ivin

3.62

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs o… read more

Similar categories in Jonna Ivin's Will Love For Crumbs book and Jonna Ivin's Will Love For Crumbs

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • amazon
  • abuse
  • adult
"There is absolutely no reason to be a dick, just because you have one."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Quietly trying to manifest what you want doesn’t work, being a bitch does."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Funny how a wink from a city guy can come across as cheesy or condescending, but a wink from a southern boy will send shivers up a girl’s spine."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always been to react and adapt to what was decided by other people, by outside circum…"

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

9. Lark Rise to Candleford

By: Richard Mabey , Flora Thompson

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Gre… read more

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10. Becoming Alice: A Memoir

By: Alice Rene

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Six-year-old IIse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna. She does not understand th… read more

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

By: Nuala O'Faolain

3.81

Format: 263 pages,

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12. Homer's Odyssey

By: Gwen Cooper

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Once in nine lives, something extraordinary happens... The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was anothe… read more

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Cover of Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II by Marion Stegeman Hodgson, Lindy Boggs

13. Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II

By: Marion Stegeman Hodgson , Lindy Boggs

3.93

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

One of the first women in the United States to train as a military pilot, the author was part of a … read more

Similar categories in Marion Stegeman Hodgson's Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II book and Jonna Ivin's Will Love For Crumbs

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. Saltwater

By: Cathy McLennan

4.10

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

‘Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent … your dilemma is not whether the kids are inn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

15. The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst

By: Marion Davies

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of Amer… read more

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Cover of Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece by Yvonne Korshak

16. 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

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17. Black Fire

By: William Kely McClung

4.29

Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Tommy Black is at the crossroads of a brilliant, clandestine career. Lost... without purpose … read more

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"Okay, sure, he’s a great fucking guy,"

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"It was time to start thinking of darker things."

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"Black once tried to tackle a Humvee head-on. This was worse"

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful."

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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
  • adult
  • biography
  • abuse
"#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 Describing Water by R.  Read

21. Describing Water

By: R. Read

3.95

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

Being around me caused the men in my life to want to choke, hit, or toss me to the floor. At fifty … read more

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13 must-read nonfiction books like Will Love For Crumbs by Jonna Ivin

Transform Your Habits

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Anne Fadiman

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Keith, A: Three Came Home

Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Karen Armstrong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Dancing on My Grave

Greg Lawrence , Gelsey Kirkland

3.86

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19 must-read nonfiction books like Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II by Marion Stegeman Hodgson, Lindy Boggs

Transform Your Habits

Reversible Skirt

Laura McHale Holland

4.03

Transform Your Habits

My Life

Golda Meir

4.04

Manic: A Memoir

Terri Cheney

2.89

Transform Your Habits

Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

John Bidwell , Kris Holloway

5.00

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